Decision details

Full Application - Installation of a disabled access camping pod with surfaced parking and wheelchair accessible pathway to campsite building and installation of two camping pods in the north east of the campsite at North Lees Campsite, Hathersag

Decision Maker: Planning Committee

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 Officer reported receipt of a letter in support of the application which had been received after the completion of the report.

 

The following spoke under the Public Participation at Meetings Scheme:

  • Rebekah Newman, applicant

 

Members of the Committee congratulated the management of the site on the ‘good fit’ with the landscaping and the welcome addition of the facility for disabled visitors.

 

The Officer recommendation to approve the application was moved and seconded, put to the vote and carried.

 

RESOLVED:

 

That the application be APPROVED subject to the following conditions or modifications.

 

1.

Statutory three year time limit for implementation.

 

2.

Development to be carried out in accordance with specified approved plans.

 

3.

The camping pods shall not be sited anywhere within the application site other than in accordance with the plots identified on the approved plans.

 

4.

No camping pod shall be replaced with any other structure or caravan at any time.

 

5.

Restrict occupancy of camping pods to short term holiday letting purposes (no more than 28 days occupancy by any individual per calendar year) ancillary to North Lees Campsite. The camping pods and the existing campsite shall be retained within a single planning unit.

 

6.

The roof tiles and external finish of the pods shall match the existing camping pods.

 

7.

All new service lines associated with the approved development, and on land with the applicant's ownership and control, shall be placed underground and the ground restored to its original condition thereafter.

 

8.

There shall be no external lighting on the camping pods hereby approved and the camping pods and associated land shall not be provided with any other external source of illumination at any time.

 

9.

No trees shall be felled within the area proposed to site the two camping pods in the north eastern corner of the site other than in accordance with a details scheme (to include details and timing of any tree to be felled and subsequent species, size and location of any new planting) which shall have first been submitted to and approved by the National Park Authority.

 

 

Publication date: 04/10/2016

Date of decision: 09/09/2016

Decided at meeting: 09/09/2016 - Planning Committee

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