Issue - meetings

To consider the above planning application.

Note: Councillor D Newton left the meeting at this point in the proceedings and returned during the committee’s debate on the application but did not take part in the debate or vote.

Note: Councillor A Baldwin(on behalf of Sound & District Parish Council), Mr D Lowe (on behalf of Sound & District Residents’ Association), Mr R High (objector) and Ms M Simpson-Gallego (on behalf of the applicant) attended the meeting and addressed the Committee on this matter.

The Committee considered a report regarding the above planning application, a written update 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 reason:

In the opinion of the Local Planning Authority, the site is not considered to be a small gap in an otherwise built up frontage. Consequently the proposal would represent an unwarranted incursion into the Open Countryside, would not add to the overall quality of the area, would detract from the sense of place of Sound and would not respond to its local character or reflect its identity. The fact that this is not a gap in an otherwise built up frontage means that the new development would not integrate into the existing, built environment. The proposal is therefore contrary to the provisions of Policy NE.2 of the adopted Borough of Crewe and Nantwich Replacement Local Plan 2011 and the National Planning Policy Framework.