Issue - meetings

To consider application UTT/18/1027/FUL.

The Development Manager gave a summary of the report which recommended refusal of a proposal for the demolition of existing outbuildings and the erection of 4 no. detached dwellings with associated amenity space and parking. The application was being heard by the Committee after a High Court decision to quash the original decision notice, which had wrongly approved the application.

Councillor Caton proposed refusal of the application. Councillor Storah seconded this motion.

                        RESOVED to refuse the application for the following reasons:

1)    The proposal would exacerbate further the cumulative impact of development in Whiteditch Lane and Bury Water Lane resulting in significant detrimental harm upon matters of highway safety and harm to the rural countryside setting of the area contrary to Policies GEN1 and S7 of the Uttlesford Local Plan 2005 and Paragraphs 109 &180 of the National Planning Policy Framework 2019.

2)    The dwellings have an unsatisfactory blocky appearance failing to respect the local vernacular resulting in an incongruous development harmful to this rural countryside setting contrary to Policy GEN2 of the Uttlesford Local Plan 2005 and Paragraph 127 of the National Planning Policy Framework 2019

3)    No contributions have been proposed to secure appropriate affordable housing and infrastructure provision contrary to Policies H9, GEN6 and GEN1 of the Uttlesford Local Plan (adopted 2005) and the National Planning Policy Framework 2019.

4)    The proposed development fails to address the housing mix requirements of the District and would therefore have an adverse effect on the community contrary to Policy H10 of the Uttlesford Local Plan (adopted 2005) and the National Planning Policy Framework 2019.

J Hamalli spoke on this application.