Issue - meetings

To consider application UTT/20/2784/FUL.

The Senior Planning Officer presented an application for the erection of 23 dwellings and new vehicular access onto Dunmow Road, open space, car parking and associated infrastructure. There would also be a landscape buffer zone along the east, west and southern boundaries. She said that the Urban Design Officer had been involved in the design process.

The application was recommended for approval subject to conditions and to the entering into of a S106 legal obligation.

Members referred to a previous application for 20 dwellings in 2017 that had been approved with subject to conditions and a S106 agreement.

Officers confirmed that this permission was still extant and that various issues were still being resolved.

Several members expressed the view that this application represented overdevelopment and that the proposed parking arrangements were highly complex, including provision of quadruple tandem parking.

Councillor Emanuel proposed that the application be refused on GEN 2 grounds of overdevelopment and that the parking arrangements were unsatisfactory. This was seconded by Councillor Bagnall. 

RESOLVED to refuse the application on GEN 2 grounds and unsatisfactory car parking arrangements.

A statement from C King against the application was read out.