12/1454N Land off Stoneley Road, Crewe: Proposed Telecommunications Base Station Comprising 15m High Slim Column, Associated Antennas, 2No. 300mm Diameter Dish Antennas, 1No. Equipment Cabinet and Associated Landscaping and Ancillary Development for
Meeting: 06/06/2012 - Southern Planning Committee (Item 7)
PDF 483 KBTo consider the above planning application.
Minutes:
Note: Prior to consideration of this application, the meeting was adjourned for ten minutes for a break.
Note: Councillors P Butterill and S Davies left the meeting at this point in the proceedings and returned during the committee’s debate on the application but did not take part in the debate or vote.
Note: Having exercised their separate speaking rights as Ward Councillors, Councillors M Martin and D Newton withdrew from the meeting during consideration of this item.
Note: Mr J Scott (on behalf of the applicant) had registered his intention to address the Committee on this matter but he had left the meeting by the time this item was considered.
The Committee considered a report regarding the above planning application, a written update and an oral report of the site inspection.
RESOLVED – That, contrary to the planning officer’s recommendation for approval, the application be REFUSED for the following reason:
The proposed telecommunications mast by virtue of its height and siting would be visually obtrusive and result in a significant impact upon visual amenity within the locality. It is therefore considered that the development is contrary to Policy NE.18 (Telecommunications Development) of the Crewe and Nantwich Replacement Local Plan 2011 and the National Planning Policy Framework.