Agenda item

The Area Team Manager presented the report and outlined the reasons for refusal.  The Officer informed Members that the application was retrospective, and that the Highways Authority had expressed concerns regarding the over intensification on Minninglow Lane.

The following spoke under the Public Participation Scheme:-

·         Mr Michael Bamford, Agent and Mr Jason Oakley, Applicant who shared the 3 minute speaking allocation.

Members were concerned that the shepherd huts appeared stark in the landscape  and would cause conflict with other users for Minninglow Lane.

A motion to refuse the application in accordance with Officer recommendation was moved, seconded, put to the vote and carried.

RESOLVED:

To REFUSE the application for the following reasons:

1.         The application fails to adequately define the landscape character in terms of the respective overall strategy for the landscape character type and area, as well as failing to demonstrate how the proposal would affect the landscape character, including any reasonable mitigation measures, and is therefore contrary to Policies GSP3, L1, DMC1, DMC3 and paragraphs 84, 176 and 177 of the National Planning Policy Framework.

2.         The development would result in more than one shepherd’s hut that is not located close to an existing farmstead and would have a significantly adverse landscape impact that would harm the natural landscape, and is therefore contrary to Policies GSP3, L1, RT3, DMC1, DMR1 and paragraphs 84, 176 and 177 of the National Planning Policy Framework.

3.         Insufficient information has been submitted with the application to adequately evidence that the holiday accommodation business would remain ancillary to an existing agricultural use and that there would be no harm to the valued landscape character, and is therefore contrary to Policy L1, DME2 and paragraphs 84, 176 and 177 of the National Planning Policy Framework.

4.         Insufficient information has been submitted with the application to adequately demonstrate that the proposal would not result in intensification in the use of Minninglow Lane, by means of investigating the feasibility of installing passing places constructed in such a manner that increases Minninglow Lane width to allow two vehicles to pass, as well as details about the waste collection procedure, and is therefore contrary to Policy DMT3 and paragraphs 110 and 111 of the National Planning Policy Framework.