Agenda item

Full Application: Two storey detached residential units to existing care home at The Lodge, Manchester Road, Hollow Meadows

Minutes:

It was noted that Members had visited the site on the previous day.

 

 

The following spoke under the public participation at meetings scheme:-

 

·         Mr C Cancello, Applicant

 

Members considered that the development fell outside a named settlement in the open countryside within the National Park and was therefore contrary to policy.

 

Members requested that the wording of the refusal in Condition 1 should be amended to read that “The erection of residential accommodation as part of a community facility is contrary to Core Strategy policies, DS1, HC1 and HC4”

 

The recommendation for refusal was moved, seconded, put to the vote and carried.

 

RESOLVED:

 

That the application be REFUSED for the following reasons:

 

1.

The erection of residential accommodation as part of a community facility is contrary to Core Strategy policies DS1, HC1 and HC4, which restrict new housing in the National Park to affordable housing to meet eligible local need within named settlements. The proposed therefore would represent unsustainable development contrary to the National Planning Policy Framework.

 

2.

It is considered that by virtue of its form, design and siting, the proposed development would harm the landscape and the character and appearance of the existing building contrary to Core Strategy policies GSP1, GSP2, GS3, DS1 and L1, Development Management policies DMC1 and DMC3, our adopted design guidance and the National Planning Policy Framework.

 

3.

Insufficient information has been submitted to allow us to conclude that the development would be designed to mitigate the impacts of climate change by making the most efficient and sustainable use of land, buildings and natural resources, take account of the energy hierarchy and achieve the highest possible standards of carbon reductions and water efficiency contrary to Core Strategy policy CC1, our adopted Sustainable Building and Climate change SPD and the National Planning Policy Framework.

 

4.

Insufficient information has been submitted to allow us to conclude that the development would safeguard trees on site, conserve local wildlife or that the development would achieve net gains to biodiversity contrary to Core Strategy policy L2, Development Management policies DMC11, DMC12 or DMC13 and the National Planning Policy Framework.

 

 

 

 

A motion to continue the meeting beyond three hours was put to the vote and carried.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cllr A McCloy left the meeting at 13:10.

 

The meeting was adjourned at 13:10 for a lunch break and reconvened at 13:40

 

Chair:              Mr R Helliwell

 

Present:           Cllr D Birkinshaw, Cllr W Armitage, Cllr P Brady, Cllr M Chaplin,

                        Cllr D Chapman, Cllr A Gregory, Cllr I Huddlestone, Cllr K Potter,

                        Miss L Slack, Mr K Smith

 

 

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