GLAMPERS at a secluded holiday site will be able to use a conventional rather than compost toilet as originally stipulated by planners.

Emma and Ian Williams were granted permanent planning permission to use their land as a seasonal glamping site back in March 2023 with two shepherd huts and one canvas teepee.

But Monmouthshire County Council’s planning department only gave the go-ahead on condition the only toilet facilities provided would be a compost toilet and no other form of foul drainage system could serve the site.

But three years after the council approved the application with the toilet condition it has agreed to lift it after Ms Williams made an application it be removed.

It was originally imposed as the glamping site, at Court Farm in Llantilio Crossenny, near Abergavenny, is a phosphate sensitive area and the council said it had “insufficient information” to satisfy concerns another system of foul drainage wouldn’t have an adverse impact upon phosphate levels that could impact water quality.

As part of her application Ms Williams provided a drainage statement that also details how percolation testing, which measures how quickly water drains through soil, was carried out at the site at the end of August 2024.

The statement also provided details of the underground drainage works required to change the compost toilet to a conventional loo, which the council said were acceptable.

Environmental body Natural Resources Wales said it was satisfied there is unlikely to be a source of additional nutrients or a pathway for them to impact the catchment of the river Wye, which is a special area of conservation.