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UTT/19/1166/OP - LITTLE CANFIELD

Meeting: 15/01/2020 - Planning Committee (Item 5)

5 UTT/19/1166/OP - Land to the South of Stortford Road pdf icon PDF 473 KB

To consider application UTT/19/1166/OP.

Minutes:

Councillor Merifield left the room for consideration of this item.

 

The Development Management Team Leader gave a summary of the report which proposed approval of a hybrid application relating to two phases of development. Area A sought detailed planning permission for a new Council Depot comprising vehicle workshop, office building, external storage, ground maintenance storage, parking, landscaping and supporting infrastructure. Access was proposed to be taken from Area B leading onto the B1252.

 

Members expressed concern that the proposal was contrary to policy S7 (Countryside) and the NPPF as it was located in the countryside.

 

Members expressed concern that the application would have an unacceptable impact on nearby listed buildings and was therefore contrary to policy ENV 2 and the NPPF.

 

Members expressed concern that noise and air pollution produced by the development would make the application contrary to policies GEN2 (Design) and GEN4 (Good Neighbourliness) and to the NPPF.

 

Members also expressed concern that the application was contrary to policy GEN6 (Infrastructure Provision to Support Development) because it failed to mitigate for the increase in pressure on infrastructure that it would cause.

 

Councillor Loughlin proposed to refuse the application. Councillor Sutton seconded this motion.

 

                        RESOLVED to refuse the application for the following reasons:

1)     The proposed development by reason of its nature and siting within the Countryside is unacceptable to the detriment of its rural natural, the amenity of the surrounding locality, contrary to Policy S7 of the Uttlesford Local Plan (adopted 2005) and the NPPF.

2)    The proposed development by reason of relationship with adjacent neighbouring Listed Buildings would have an unacceptable impact upon their setting which is not outweighed by public benefit contrary to Policy ENV2 of the Uttlesford Local Plan (adopted 2005) and the NPPF.

3)    The proposed development would result in a significant loss of residential amenity to neighbouring residential properties due to noise and fumes, contrary to Uttlesford Local Plan Policies GEN2 and GEN4 (adopted 2005) and the NPPF.

4)    The development hereby permitted would increase the pressure on the local infrastructure within the district, as listed within the schedule of Heads of Terms of the report presented to the 6th June 2018 Planning Committee (page 60). In the absence of any legal agreement to address this, the application fails to fully mitigate the impacts of the development contrary to Policy GEN6 of the Uttlesford Local Plan 2005.

 

Councillor G Driscoll, P Uragallo, D Adams, M Bulling, I Butcher, C Day, J Fulcher and J Bellafield spoke on this application.

 

 

Councillor Merifield returned to the room.