11/3269M - Windmill Wood, Chelford Road, Ollerton, Knutsford, Cheshire WA16 8RX: Proposed New Dwelling in Association with Existing Managed Woodland Business
Meeting: 25/04/2012 - Northern Planning Committee (Item 113)
PDF 280 KBTo consider the above planning application.
Minutes:
(Caroline Preston (objector) and Graham Holborrow (on behalf of the applicant) attended the meeting and addressed the committee on this matter).
(A representation from Councillor G Walton, the Ward Councillor who was unable to attend the meeting, was read out by Peter Hooley).
The Committee considered a report regarding the above planning application, a site layout plan, and an oral report by the Planning Officer.
RESOLVED
That, contrary to the planning officer’s recommendation for approval, the application be REFUSED for the following reason:
The proposal would reduce openness and is an inappropriate form of development within the Green Belt, as defined by the Development Plan. The considerations in favour of the proposal are not considered to be sufficient to demonstrate an essential need for a rural worker to live at the site, therefore it is not considered that very special circumstances exist to justify the development in the Green Belt. The development is therefore contrary to policy GC1 of the Macclesfield Borough Local Plan and would cause harm to the objectives of those policies. The development is similarly contrary to national policy guidance relating to development within the Green Belt.