Issue - meetings

The Committee received an application for full planning permission.

The application sought approval for reconfiguration and extensions, incorporating dormer windows, and alterations to roof of building to provide 12 residential units (net increase of 9 units) along with bin and cycle storage.

The Committee:

Resolved (4 votes to 4 – and on the Chair’s casting vote) to reject the officer recommendation to approve the application.

Resolved (by 4 votes to 2) to refuse the application contrary to the officer recommendation for the following reason:

The proposed development would constitute an overdevelopment of the site by virtue of cramped and small living spaces for future occupants and a constrained external living environment and as such would fail to secure a good standard of amenity for future occupants, contrary to Cambridge Local Plan (2006) policies 3/7 and 3/14.

After the vote Councillor Nethsingha left the committee for another commitment.