Agenda item

Full Application - Proposed agricultural building to serve sheep enterprise at Wellcroft Farm, Oldfields Lane, Grindon

Minutes:

This application had been deferred for more information at the planning committee on 10 February 2017.

 

The officer reported that a revised application including a more acceptable location for the agricultural building had been received but also that the applicant had requested deferral of the current application. As this would serve no purpose, the application had been brought back to committee.

 

The recommendation was moved and seconded.

 

Members asked that enforcement action be taken against the land owner because of the unsightliness of the property.

 

The recommendation was voted upon and carried.

 

RESOLVED:

 

That the application be REFUSED for the following reasons:

 

1.    By virtue of its siting and design the building appears as an isolated and intrusive feature in the landscape and would harm the valued character of the area contrary to paragraph 115 of the NPPF, Core Strategy policies GSP and L1, Local Plan policies LC4 and LC13 and advice in the Adopted Supplementary Planning Guide on Agricultural Developments in the National Park.

2.    The building does not make use of the least obtrusive or otherwise damaging location contrary to Development Plan policy LC13.

 

 

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