Issue - meetings

To consider the above planning application.

Note: Councillor D Bebbington left the meeting prior to consideration of this application.

Note: Councillor R Fletcher declared that he had received correspondence from an objector in relation to this application.

Note: Councillor R Fletcher (Ward Councillor) and Mr A Pickersgill and Mrs A Gallagher (objectors) attended the meeting and addressed the Committee on this matter.

The Committee considered a report regarding the above planning application 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 reasons:

1. The proposal, by reason of its  size, height, form and design, would be a cramped form of development  that would be intrusive in the street scene and  out of keeping with the character of the existing properties in the immediate vicinity of the site. The proposal is therefore contrary to Policies GR1 and GR2 of the adopted Congleton Borough Local Plan First Review 2005.

2. The proposal, by reason of its size, height, design and position relative to the adjoining property number 176 Sandbach Road North, would be unduly dominant when viewed from that adjoining property, to the detriment of the residential amenities of the occupiers.  The proposal is therefore contrary to Policy GR6 of the adopted Congleton Borough Local Plan First Review 2005.