Issue - meetings

To consider the above planning application.

During consideration of the application, Councillors David Brown and Roger West arrived to the meeting and in accordance with the Code of Conduct they did not take part in the debate or vote on the application.

Consideration was given to the above application.

Councillor S Corcoran, Ward Councillor, had not registered his intention to address the Committee.  However, in accordance with paragraph 2.8 of the public speaking rights at Strategic Planning Board and Planning Committee meetings, the Committee agreed to allow Councillor Corcoran to speak.

(Councillor Andrew Wood, the Town Councillor; Tony Cresswell, a representative of Save Our Sandbach Action Group and Mr P Downes, representing the agent for the applicant attended the meeting and spoke in respect of the application).

(Mr Steve Irvine, the Planning and Development Manager read out statements on behalf of Councillors G Merry and B Moran, councillors representing the adjacent wards).

RESOLVED:

That the application be DEFERRED to enable officers to provide further information on the following:

• traffic impact
• harm to the landscape character of the area
• sustainability
• housing need and supply
• the effect on brown field sites
• the agricultural land
• consideration of further contributions in the Legal Agreement
• education provision.