Decision details

Consideration was given to the application which had been deferred at the meeting of the Committee held on 1st March 2010 in order for Members of the Committee to undertake a site visit.

The application had been recommended for refusal by the Head of Planning and Environment Services but Members considered that the proposals would have a negligible impact on the openness of the Green Belt given the relationship of the proposals to the surrounding land levels adjacent to the application site.  Furthermore, Members felt that the proposed car-port did not represent habitable floor space in the assessment of the measured floor area of the property.  Members considered that these reasons represented very special circumstances to override the presumption against inappropriate development in the Green Belt.

RESOLVED that permission be granted subject to any reasonable conditions and notes considered necessary by the Head of Planning and Environment Services, to specifically include appropriately-worded conditions attached to the Decision Notice to:

(a)       remove the ability of the owner of the property to utilise the car-port structure for any other purpose other than that as a car-port; and

(b)       remove any permitted development rights for external changes to the extension.

(Note: Councillors Mrs. J. M. Boswell, S. R. Colella, E. J. Murray and P. J. Whittaker did not take part in the consideration or voting on this application because they were not present at the meeting held on 1st March 2010, when the application was initially considered by the Committee.  Councillor Miss D. H. Campbell did not take part in the consideration or voting on this application because she had not attended the site visit.)