A man who lives in a log cabin and keeps wallabies, mongooses, porcupines, parrots and other rare birds has been told to move. <\/p>\n
James Wale relocated to the rural Carmarthenshire site two years ago, having previously run a rare bird business in Pembrokeshire.<\/p>\n
Neighbours said the site sounded like a “tropical jungle”, especially at night. <\/p>\n
Carmarthenshire Council issued Wale with an enforcement notice alleging he had broken planning rules, but he has been given more time to relocate the animals.<\/p>\n
Planning agents representing the bird enthusiast said he wanted to create a “major tourism venture”, and that his former business in the grounds of Picton Castle ended because the lease was not renewed.<\/p>\n
Wale moved to the 17-acre woodland near Llannon and had hoped to set up an owl garden centre, but scaled back his plans to create a private bird welfare home along with some forestry and farming activities.<\/p>\n
As well as the exotic animals, Wale also kept horses, goats, chickens and ducks, according to the enforcement appeal.<\/p>\n
Documents said the abandoned venture planned to include “reptile, mongoose and several animal enclosures”. <\/p>\n
A planning application was then prepared for a smaller-scale venture including about 30 bird and animal enclosures, with Wale not intending to live onsite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who lives in a log cabin and keeps wallabies, mongooses, porcupines, parrots and other rare birds…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-797175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}