Issue - meetings

The Committee returned to the application for full planning permission, as adjourned from 3 February 2016.

The application sought approval for erection of 3.No four bed houses, internal access road, car and cycle parking and hard and soft landscaping.

The Committee:

The Chair asked for a recorded vote.

Councillors Dryden, Hart and Holland voted to refuse the application.

Councillors Blencowe, Smart and Tunnacliffe voted to support the application.

Councillor Pippas abstained.

Councillor Gawthrope abstained as he was not present at the 3 February committee.

Resolved (3 votes to 3 – and on the Chair’s casting vote) to refuse the application contrary to the officer recommendations for the following reason:

The proposed development would, by virtue of its unsympathetic scale, bulky design and loss of trees, have a significantly detrimental impact on the character and setting of this edge of city site and surrounding rural context. The proposed development would result in an alien form of development and unduly diminish the rural character of this green edge from Lime Kiln Road. The proposal therefore fails to sympathetically respond to the site context and setting of the city. For these reasons the proposed development conflicts with policies 3/2, 3/4, 3/12 and 4/4 of the Cambridge Local Plan (2006) and government guidance contained in the National Planning Policy Framework 2012.