Issue - meetings

To consider the above application.

The Board gave consideration to Planning Application No. 09/3918C.

RESOLVED:

That the application be REFUSED for the following reasons –

The scale of the development to which the application relates is inappropriate in this location within an area of predominantly open rural countryside and as such is contrary to criterion (III) of Local Plan Policy H8. In particular, the extension of the site further westwards and the parking area and associated 1.8 metre high earth mound projecting from the northerly end of the site into part of the adjacent field would have a detrimental effect upon the character and appearance of the surrounding locality contrary to Policies GR1 and GR2 of the adopted Congleton Borough Local Plan First Review.

(Notes: (1) Having arrived at the meeting during consideration of this application, Councillor D Brown did not participate in the debate or voting, in accordance with Paragraph 13.5 of the Planning Protocol of Conduct in Relation to the Determination of Planning Matters.)

(2) The following speakers attended the meeting and addressed the Board on this matter –

(a) Councillor A Kolker (Ward Councillor); and

(b) Parish Councillor Scragg (on behalf of Moston Parish Council);