Decision details

Full Application - Change of use to Field Nos 8485 and 8877 to a seasonal overflow camping field at Knotlow Farm, Flagg

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Decision status: APPROVED (Contrary to officer recommendation)

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Decisions:

Members had visited the site on the previous day.

The original application had been deferred by the Planning Committee in April 2016.

Amended plans had been received, removing the proposal to put tents on the higher level of the field. Officers had revisited the site and noted that there were no less damaging locations than the one proposed. The Applicant had not provided detail of the number of pitches.

Having considered the amended proposals, officers maintained their recommendation to refuse the application. However, officers had suggested 10 conditions in the report in case Members were minded to approve it.

The following made a representation to the committee under the Authority’s Public Participation Scheme:

· Mrs M Hollinrake, Applicant

Cllr P Brady declared a personal interest as he was acquainted with the Applicant’s son, Mr C Hollinrake.

A motion to approve the application subject to the officers’ suggested conditions with the addition of a condition to protect the landscape and the removal and replacement of condition 7, was moved and seconded. The replacement condition 7 would specify that the site was to be used for tents only and not for camper vans or caravans. The Director added that the fencing in condition 2 could be amended to post and wire rather than post and rail, in order to minimise landscape impact.

RESOLVED:

That the application be APPROVED subject to the following conditions:

	Development not to be carried out otherwise than in accordance with amended plans.
	Excluded areas on approved plans to be fenced off with post and rail fencing within 1 month of date of decision.
	The camping site hereby permitted shall be ancillary to the agricultural use of Knotlow Farm and the agricultural unit and the camping site shall be maintained as a single planning unit throughout the lifetime of the development hereby permitted.
	No single tent shall be retained on site for a consecutive period exceeding 28 days in any one calendar year.
	No tent shall be occupied as a permanent residence.
	No tents shall be allowed on the application site between 31st October in any one year and the Thursday before Good Friday or 31st March whichever comes first in the following year.
	The site shall only be used for the pitching of tents.
	Notwithstanding the provisions of the Town and Country Planning General Permitted Development Order 1995 (or any order revoking or re-enacting that Order) no development required by the conditions of a site licence for the time being in force under the 1960 Act shall be carried out or erected on the site without the National Park Authority's prior written consent.
	Landscaping shown on approved plan to be implemented within the next planting seasons following the date of the decision.
	The development permitted by this planning permission shall be carried out in accordance with the approved Flood Risk Assessment (FRA) May 2014/Ambiental Technical Solutions and the following mitigation measures detailed within the FRA:
	All tents to be located within Flood Zone 1 and outside of the area identified as being at high risk from surface water flooding.
	Identification and provision of safe routes into and out of the site to an appropriate safe haven.
	The mitigation measures shall be fully implemented prior to occupation and subsequently in accordance with the timing / phasing arrangements embodied within the scheme, or within any other period as may subsequently be agreed, in writing, by the National Park Authority.

Publication date: 29/07/2016

Date of decision: 15/07/2016

Decided at meeting: 15/07/2016 - Planning Committee

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