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The Committee received an application for full planning permission.
The application sought approval for the alteration of a boundary fence and bin enclosure.
The Committee
received a representation in objection to the application from Helen Higgs.
The representation
covered the following issues:
i.
This is
a building of local interest and the changes to the boundary had been done
without permission.
ii.
The
application did not comply with Local Plan Policies 3/4, 3/7, 3/11, 3/12, 4/11
and 4/12.
iii.
The
industrial sized bins were too big and not actively used.
iv.
The
landscaping and screening around the bin area needed attention.
v.
The
previous grounds for refusal still applied.
The Committee:
Resolved (by 7 votes to 0) to reject the officer recommendation to grant the application for planning
permission.
Resolved (unanimously) to
refuse planning permission, against the officer recommendation, for the
following reason:
The bin store, because of its scale, materials, prominent location and
ineffective method of enclosure and landscaping, responds poorly to the
surrounding context, jarring with, and detracting from, the character of the
Building of Local Interest and the street scene, and eroding the special
quality of the Newtown section of the City of Cambridge Conservation Area No.1
(Central), contrary to policies 3/4, 3/7, 3/11, 3/12, 4/11 and 4/12 of the
saved Cambridge Local Plan 2006, and to government guidance in Sections 7 and
12 of the National Planning Policy Framework 2012.