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The Head of Planning and Regeneration Services reiterated that consideration of the application had passed from the Council to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, as the applicant had instigated appeal proceedings against the non-determination of the application within the statutory time.  Therefore, the Committee was requested to consider the application to give an indication of what its decision would have been in order to demonstrate the Council's stance for the forthcoming appeal.

She also reported the comments of Natural England in respect of withdrawing the objection in relation to the provision of inadequate species information, together with the comments of the Strategic Housing Manager on the draft Unilateral Undertaking.

RESOLVED that Members follow the recommendation of the Head of Planning and Regeneration Services to endorse the Council's position, as set out in the refusal reasons (1), (2) and (3) on pages 52 and 53 of the report, and that this decision represent the Council's stance in respect of the appeal proceedings instigated by the applicants.