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Decision Maker: Planning
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
The Committee received an application for
full planning permission.
The
application sought approval for the infill of the existing undercroft.
Liz Craig, Estates Manager of Anglia Ruskin University and Tom Manville of
the Student Union of Anglia Ruskin University (Applicant’s representatives)
addressed the Committee in support of the application.
Councillor Richard
Robertson (Petersfield Ward Councillor) addressed the Committee about the
application and made the following comments:
i.
Previously the site had been an open space with an
area for bins.
ii.
The first application for a bin store had been
received in 2008.
iii.
In 2010 the bin store was greed along with a
commitment to Anglia Ruskin being a good neighbour.
iv.
The eye clinic had never used the bins in this
area.
v.
Bin store was for the sole use of local residents.
vi.
Loss of the facility would contravene Local Plan Policy
58 (negative impact on amenity of neighbours)
 vii.
Anti-social behaviour was a concern but alternative
controls and cleaning strategies were available.
viii.
Alternative solutions, such as gates, have been
rejected by Anglia Ruskin University.
The Committee:
Resolved (by 5 votes to 1 and 3 abstentions) to reject the officer recommendation to
approve the application.
Resolved (by 6 votes to 0 and 1 abstention) to agree the
following reasons for refusal:
Loss of the bin store would contravene Local
Plan Policy 58.
Resolved (by 6
votes to 0 and 1 abstention) to
refuse the application contrary to the officer recommendation for the following
reasons:
The proposed infilling of the undercroft would result in the loss of bin
storage for residents of nearby properties, and would therefore be detrimental
to their residential amenity, contrary to Policy 58 of the Cambridge Local Plan
(2018).
Committee Manager Note: Councillors Holt
and Page Croft left after the initial vote for this item.
Report author: Alice Young
Publication date: 02/01/2019
Date of decision: 05/12/2018
Decided at meeting: 05/12/2018 - Planning
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