Issue - meetings
15/509288 Land to the North of Lenham Road
Meeting: 24/03/2016 - Planning Committee (Item 331)
Additional documents:
- 15/509288 Committee Report, item 331 PDF 268 KB View as HTML (331/2) 294 KB
- Land to the North of Lenham Road Headcorn 15 -509288 OUT_urgent update, item 331 PDF 228 KB View as HTML (331/3) 12 KB
- Land to the North of Lenham Road Headcorn 15 -509288 OUT_second update, item 331 PDF 35 KB View as HTML (331/4) 4 KB
- Letter to MH MBC March 23rd 2016, item 331 PDF 265 KB
- Implications of High Court Judgement 2016 EWHC 421 for planning applicat..., item 331 PDF 515 KB
- 15-509288_photos, item 331 PDF 435 KB
Minutes:
All Members except Councillor McKay stated that they had been lobbied.
The Committee considered the report and the urgent update reports of the Head of Planning and Development.
Mr Thomas, an objector, Councillor Pyman of Headcorn Parish Council (against), Mr Atkins, for the applicant, and Councillor Thick (Visiting Member) addressed the meeting.
Contrary to the recommendation of the Head of Planning and Development, the Committee agreed to refuse permission. In making this decision, Members felt that the proposed development would be contrary to policies ENV28 and ENV34 of the Maidstone Borough-Wide Local Plan 2000 and notwithstanding the lack of a 5 year housing land supply, the harm to the landscape, in particular the Special Landscape Area, by virtue of the extension of built development into open countryside, forming an incongruous intrusion into the said countryside, should be given weight.
RESOLVED: That permission be refused for the following reason:
The proposed development would be contrary to policies ENV28 and ENV34 of the Maidstone Borough-Wide Local Plan 2000 and notwithstanding the lack of a 5 year housing land supply, the harm to the landscape, in particular the Special Landscape Area, by virtue of the extension of built development into open countryside, forming an incongruous intrusion into the said countryside, should be given weight.
Voting: 7 – For 0 – Against 5 - Abstentions