Issue - meetings

To consider the above planning application.

Note: The Senior Lawyer advised Committee Members to disregard the contents of a document which had been circulated at the Southern Planning Committee meeting on 18 April 2012, and to base their decision on the contents of the officer’s report, which included a letter from the applicant.

Note: Councillor R Hovey(on behalf of Haslington Parish Council), Mr I Hopkins(supporter) and Mr S Shreeve (on behalf of the applicant) attended the meeting and addressed the Committee on this matter.

The Committee considered a report regarding the above planning application.

RESOLVED – That, for the reasons set out in the report, the application be REFUSED for the following reasons:

1.      The proposal is for a new dwelling in the open countryside, which is contrary to the requirements of Policy RES.5 of the Borough of Crewe and Nantwich Adopted Replacement Local Plan 2011 and the applicant has failed to demonstrate that there are very special circumstances that outweigh the requirements of this policy.

2.      The proposal does not constitute the infilling of a small gap in an otherwise built up frontage, contrary to the requirements of Policy NE.2 of the Borough of Crewe and Nantwich Adopted Replacement Local Plan 2011.