Issue - meetings

To consider the above application.

Consideration was given to the above application.

(Mr Vendy, representing an objector, Mr P Yates, a Supporter and Mr Wren, the applicant attended the meeting and spoke in respect of the application).

RESOLVED

That the application be refused for the following reasons:-

1.     The development is therefore contrary to policy RDF4 of the Regional Spatial Strategy for the North West and policies GC1 and GC12 of the Macclesfield Borough Local Plan and would cause harm to the objectives of those policies.  The development is similarly contrary to national policy guidance relating to development within the Green Belt. It is not considered that very special circumstances exist to justify the approval of inappropriate development in the Green Belt.

2.     Policy GC12 of the Macclesfield Borough Local Plan only allows for alterations or extensions to dwellings which would neither result in a significant change in the scale and appearance of the original dwelling nor require additional works which would unduly detract from the quality of the environment.  The proposed extension is considered by the Local Planning Authority to be a significant and disproportionate addition to this dwelling.  The Local Planning Authority considers that the erection of the proposed extension would be contrary to the objectives of these policies which are to retain the prevailing character of housing in the rural areas and the stock of smaller dwellings, and that such proposals, if permitted, would have a cumulative and incremental effect on the openness of the Green Belt.

(The meeting adjourned at 3.25pm and reconvened at 3.35pm.  Councillors C Thorley and G M Walton left the meeting and did not return).