12/4882M-A Farming & Food Visitor Centre including Access, Car Parking, Pedestrian Routes, Visitor Centre, Bio-dome, Mobile Field Shelters and Landscaping, Land West of Mag Lane, High Legh, Warrington for David Fryer, David Fryer Management
Meeting: 27/03/2013 - Northern Planning Committee (Item 128)
PDF 489 KBTo consider the above application.
Minutes:
Councillor B Livesley arrived to the meeting during consideration of the application, as a result he did not take part on the debate or vote on the application).
Consideration was given to the above application.
(Councillor S Wilkinson, the Ward Councillor, Rebecca Thurston, representing the applicant, Emma Clarke (the applicant was also present to assist with answering any questions), a Supporter and Iain Clark, a Supporter attended the meeting and spoke in respect of the application.
RESOLVED
That for the reasons in the report and in the update to Committee, the application be refused for the following reason:-
The proposed development represents an inappropriate form of development which would be harmful to the Green Belt. In addition, the proposals would have a significiant impact upon the openness of the Green Belt, would represent encorachment and would have an adverse visual impact upon the Green Belt. Substantial weight is attached to the harm identified above and there are no very special circumstances to justify the development which would outweigh this harm. Therefore the proposals are contrary to policy GC1 within the Macclesfield Local Plan 2004 and guidance within The Framework.