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Minutes:
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.