Issue - meetings

 To consider the above planning application.

The Committee gave consideration to a report (including an oral report on a site visit) on Planning Application 10/1179C (14 Smithfield Lane, Sandbach).

Notes: (1) Councillor E Alcock, the Ward Councillor, was in attendance and addressed the Committee on this matter;  

(2)       Mr D Smith (objector) was in attendance and addressed the Committee on this matter; and 

(3)       Ms J Naylor (Emery Planning on behalf of the applicant, Brighouse Homes) was in attendance and addressed the Committee on this matter.          

RESOLVED:

That Application 10/1179C be REFUSED contrary to officer recommendation for the following reasons –

1.         The proposal is out of keeping with the character of the area by reason of the scale of the dwellings, the form of layout and the density of development, contrary to Policies GR1 and GR2 of the Congleton Borough Local Plan.

2.         The proposal would result in additional traffic and parking on Smithfield Lane, which has a narrow carriageway and is often obstructed by parked vehicles.  The proposal would be contrary to the interests of highway safety and the free flow of traffic.  The development is contrary to Policy GR9 of the Congleton Borough Local Plan.