Issue - meetings

The Head of Planning and Environment Services reported the comments of the Drainage Engineer and Worcestershire Highways, together with the receipt of additional information from the applicant's agent.  He also reported an amendment to Note 1 contained within his recommendation, referred to on page 80 of the report.

At the invitation of the Chairman, Mr. D. Wolverson addressed the Committee and spoke in opposition to the proposals, and Councillor L. J. Turner also addressed the Committee, as one of the Ward Members for the area in which the application site was located.

Consideration was then given to the application which had been recommended for approval by the Head of Planning and Environment Services.  On the matter being put to the vote, Members considered that the proposal -

(i)         amounted to an overdevelopment of the application site, and created a cramped form of development of inappropriate design;

(ii)        was of an unsuitable scale and character;

(iii)       caused a loss of residential amenity due to its non-compliance with SPG1;

(iv)       caused an unacceptable loss of tree cover which provided a valuable asset in the locality; and

(v)        created unacceptable highway implications in respect of access and egress.

RESOLVED:

(a)       that permission be refused for the reasons (i) to (v) above; and

(b)       that the exact wording of these reasons, to form the reasons on the Notice of Refusal of Planning Permission quoting the relevant Structure Plan and Local Plan policies, be delegated to the Head of Planning and Environment Services (Head of Planning and Regeneration).