Issue - meetings

To consider the above application.

(Prior to consideration of the application Councillor C M Andrew left the meeting and returned during consideration of the application.  In accordance with the Code of Conduct she did not take part in the debate nor vote on the application).

Consideration was given to the above application.

(Mr Fitzgerald, an objector and Reverend Rob McLaren, acting on behalf of the applicant).

RESOLVED

That the application be refused for the following reason:-

The proposal is an inappropriate form of development within the Green Belt, as defined by the Development Plan.  The development is therefore contrary to policies GC1 of the Macclesfield Borough Local Plan and would cause harm to the objectives of this policy.  The development is similarly contrary to national policy guidance relating to development within the Green Belt and the provision of occupational workers dwellings (PPG2 and PPS7).  It is not considered that very special circumstances exist to justify the approval of inappropriate development in the Green Belt.