Decision details

Members had visited the site on the previous day.

In introducing the report the Officer corrected the figure in paragraph two as the site size should be 444 sqm and not 640 sqm which was the size of the original application which had been reduced following discussions with the applicant.

The following spoke under the Public Participation at Meetings Scheme:

·         Mr Corbridge, Applicant

Following the site visit Members had noted that the location of the proposed dwelling would impact on the landscape and was outside the Bakewell Development Boundary.

Members noted that the Planning Officer had looked at siting the new building with other buildings at Shutts Farm but that the Highways Authority had suggested the access to the road was not safe and that they would appose further development of the site.   The Director of Conservation and Planning confirmed that it is in the ‘gift’ of the National Park Authority to override the decision of the Highways Authority if it was deemed appropriate.

A motion to defer the application  to a future Planning Committee to enable officers and the applicant to discuss an alterative location in the existing farm group, consider improvements to access and application of a Section 106 agreement for affordable housing was moved, seconded, put to the vote and carried.

RESOLVED:

The application be deferred to enable further discussion between officers and the applicant on finding an alternative location within the current development at Shutts Farm.

The meeting was adjourned from 11.20 to 11.25