Decision details
Report of the Planning, Transport and Development Overview and Scrutiny Committee - Call In of Cabinet Decisions dated 4 February 2015 - Maidstone Borough Local Plan - New and Amended Site Allocations
Decision Maker: Cabinet.
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
Purpose:
To consider the recommendations of the Planning, Transport and Development Overview and Scrutiny Committee as a result of their special meeting held on 2 March 2015 to scrutinise the Call-In of Cabinet Member Decisions dated 4 February 2015.
Decision:
DECISION
MADE:
Cabinet noted the recommendations of Planning, Transportation and
Development Overview and Scrutiny Committee as set out in the SCRAIP
following the Call In
and made the following decisions:-
(1) H1 (25) –
Tongs Meadow, West Street Harrietsham
RESOLVED: That in view of the recent advice from Natural
England (NE) that they would be unlikely to consider issuing an EPS
(European Protected Species) Development License given the fact
that the site is a receptor site for a previous development,
Cabinet resolved that this site would go forward to Regulation 18
Consultation for deletion.
Voting: 5 Agreed – unanimous
(2) H1 (10) – Land
South of Sutton Road
RESOLVED: That:
(1) point (c) of the original decision “there
would be an
unacceptable
cumulative impact on traffic generations in the
Sutton Road corridor” be deleted for consistency with
Sites
(7), (8) and (9) with the other sites in that area and the
full
detailed transport modelling is not currently available;
Voting: 4 Agreed -
unanimous
.
(2) add in the same
criterion in the Local Plan for consistency
which has been added at Criterion 10, paragraph vii of Sites
H1
(7), (8) and (9) which is “strategic road infrastructure
to
significantly relieve traffic congestion on Sutton Road and
Willington Street”;
Voting: 4 Agreed –
unanimous
(3) point (e) of the
original decision “that development here
would not command the consent of local people as reflected
in
the consultation response” be deleted on the grounds of
consistency;
Voting: 4 Agreed – unanimous
(4) having noted the
Committee’s recommendation for Cabinet
to reconsider their decision on this site and put it forward
for
Regulation 19 consultation, Members voted to reject this
recommendation;
Voting: 2 Agreed
2 Against
Chairman had the casting vote.
(5) having deleted points
(c) and (e) from the original decision
and added in a new Criterion for H1 – (10) Land South
of
Sutton Road which mirrors Criterion 10, paragraph vii of
Sites H1 (7), (8) and (9), the original decision that this
site
go forward to Regulation 18 consultation for deletion would
still stand;
Voting: 2 Agreed
2 Against
Chairman had the casting vote.
Councillor Burton left the meeting before this site was
discussed.
(6) Cabinet noted the
disappointment of the Committee that
they had not given a reason for recommending site H1 (20) -
Postley Road, Tovil to go forward for Regulation 19
consultation. Cabinet felt that they had fully considered the
issues raised by Committee and Visiting Members but after
careful consideration having considered the policy criteria
for
H1
(20) maintained their view that these will afford the
protection aspired to and therefore that the site should go
forward for Regulation 19 consultation.
Voting: 3
Agreed
1 Against
Publication date: 11/03/2015
Date of decision: 09/03/2015
Decided: 09/03/2015 - Cabinet.
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