BOB Oldmeadow is allaying "misunderstandings" about plans to move his training company to Fromehall.
His proposal to transfer C&G Training Services from Stonehouse to a site between Lodgemore and Chestnut lanes provoked a "large number of objections", council planning officer Sarah Carruthers said.
There was "misunderstanding regarding the proposed use and the intensity of training, traffic generation, the machinery involved and noise generation," she said.
Her report is recommending the C&G scheme be granted permission at next week's development control committee of Stroud District Council.
So far, 41 letters have been sent to the council opposing the change of use of land and buildings adjacent Fromehall Mills into a vocational and adult education centre.
An ecological restoration area will be created between the business and the canal.
Mr Oldmeadow, who started his business in Stroud in 1970, said he thought objectors had become mistaken after they looked at C&G's website.
It says the firm trained more than 10,000 people a year but less than five per cent of those were trained locally, he said.
"We are training across the country, right up as far as Macclesfield," said Mr Oldmeadow, who provides 32 jobs at his company.
"Occasionally we might need a piece of machinery to be brought in on a truck but that is all."
