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MA 12 0152 LITTLE CLOCK HOUSE GEORGE STREET HUNTON MAIDSTONE KENT ME15 0RE

Meeting: 19/09/2013 - Planning Committee (Item 137)

137 MA/12/0152 - AN APPLICATION TO REMOVE CONDITIONS 1 AND 2 AND VARY CONDITIONS 3 AND 4 OF APPEAL DECISION DATED 29 NOVEMBER 1995 IN ORDER TO ALLOW PERMANENT UNRESTRICTED OCCUPANCY BY GYPSIES AND TRAVELLERS AND ALLOW THE STATIONING OF FIVE CARAVANS (INCLUDING ONE TOURER) AND THE PARKING OF FOUR COMMERCIAL VEHICLES - LITTLE CLOCK HOUSE, GEORGE STREET, HUNTON, MAIDSTONE, KENT PDF 23 KB

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Minutes:

All Members stated that they had been lobbied.

The Committee considered the report and the urgent update report of the Head of Planning and Development.

Mrs Kelly, for objectors, and Councillor Heaton of Hunton Parish Council (against) 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, by way of the constrained nature of the site and the intensification of the use with additional residential caravans and commercial vehicles, would result in a harmful impact on the character and appearance of the open countryside and the Greensand Ridge Special Landscape Area hereabouts distinct in its character by virtue of the number of listed buildings in the vicinity. This would be contrary to policies ENV28 and ENV34 of the Maidstone Borough-Wide Local Plan 2000 and central government planning policy as set out in paragraphs 109, 129 and 132 of the National Planning Policy Framework 2012 and paragraph 23 of Planning Policy for Traveller Sites 2012.

RESOLVED: That permission be refused for the following reason:

The proposed development, by way of the constrained nature of the site and the intensification of the use with additional residential caravans and commercial vehicles, would result in a harmful impact on the character and appearance of the open countryside and the Greensand Ridge Special Landscape Area hereabouts distinct in its character by virtue of the number of listed buildings in the vicinity, contrary to policies ENV28 and ENV34 of the Maidstone Borough-Wide Local Plan 2000 and central government planning policy as set out in paragraphs 109, 129 and 132 of the National Planning Policy Framework 2012 and paragraph 23 of Planning Policy for Traveller Sites 2012.

Voting: 9 – For 3 – Against 0 – Abstentions