Minutes:
98.1 Item A
Application DC/17/04049
Proposal Full Planning Application – Erection of 6 single-storey dwellings and associated outbuildings, improvements to existing vehicular access and highways improvements. As amended by agent’s email dated 17/8/17 and amended drawings numbered 17/60/02A, 03A and 12A showing changes to proposed footpath arrangement. Further amended drawings received 9/11/17 numbered 17/60/02B, 03B, 04A, 05A, 06A, 07A, 08A, 09A, 10A, 11A, 12B, and 14B showing changes to layout and form of dwellings.
Site Location HARTEST – The Paddocks, Lawshall Road, Hartest, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP29 4DR
Applicant Lewis Morgan Ltd
98.2 Prior to the application being heard the Chair read out a statement regarding Members previous involvement on the application and that although the application was returning to the Committee again, he would be approaching the application with an open mind. This sentiment was mirrored and expressed by Councillors Plumb, Osborne, Parker and Busby.
98.3 The Case Officer presented the application to the Committee outlining the proposal before Members, the layout of the site, the previous history of the application, and the officer recommendation of refusal.
98.4 Members considered the representation from John Gill of Hartest Parish Council who spoke against the application.
98.5 Members considered the representation from Douglas Chivers who spoke as an Objector.
98.6 The Objector responded to Members’ questions on issues including: whether the site was allocated in the current draft of the Hartest Neighbourhood Plan, and whether any other sites had been allocated in the Neighbourhood Plan.
98.7 Members debated the application on the issues including: the reasoning why the application was brought back before the Committee, that the officer recommendation of refusal and the reasons for refusal had not changed but had only been appropriately updated with the NPPF, the Draft Local Plan and that there were no proposed sites in Hartest, the design of the proposal, and the location of the proposal.
98.8 Councillor Stephen Plumb proposed that the application be refused as detailed in the officer recommendation. Councillor Sue Ayres seconded the motion.
98.9 Members continued to debate the application on the issues including: the officer recommendation of refusal, the history of the site and the previous judicial reviews on the site.
98.10 RESOLVED
That the Application is refused for the following reasons:
1. The proposed development, by virtue of its location, scale, density and layout, would be inconsistent with the open countryside and edge-of-settlement character, harmful to the character of the Special Landscape Area and setting of the Hartest village, contrary to Policy CS11 and CS15 of the Babergh Core Strategy (2014) and paragraph 170 of the National Planning Policy Framework 2019.
2. The proposed development, by virtue its location and poor pedestrian connectivity, would be car dependent which would not promote healthy living or sustainable transport, would not constitute sustainable development nor improve the social and environmental conditions in the district, contrary to Policies CS1 and CS15 of the Babergh Core Strategy (2014) and paragraphs 8, 17, 91, 103, 117 and 122of the National Planning Policy Framework 2019
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