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12/1829 - KWANA, CROSS DRIVE, KINGSWOOD, MAIDSTONE, KENT, ME17 3NP

Meeting: 04/09/2014 - Planning Committee (Item 105)

105 MA/12/1829 - CHANGE OF USE OF LAND TO MIXED USE FOR AGRICULTURE AND AS A RESIDENTIAL CARAVAN SITE AND ERECTION OF WOODEN AMENITY BUILDING - KWANA, CROSS DRIVE, KINGSWOOD, MAIDSTONE, KENT PDF 25 KB

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Minutes:

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

Ms Gosden addressed the meeting on behalf of Kingswood and Broomfield Parish Council (against).

RESOLVED: That permission be granted subject to the conditions set out in the report with the amendment of condition 1 as follows:

The hedgerow fronting Cross Drive in the ownership of the applicants (ownership being shown on site location plan received on 10 October 2012) shall be retained no lower than 2.5 metres in height. Should any planting become dead, dying, diseased or dangerous it shall be replaced with the same species within the first available planting season, allowed to grow up to at least 2.5 metres in height and thereafter maintained at all times in accordance with the provisions of this condition.

Reason: To screen the development in the interests of visual amenity.

Voting: 7 – For 1 – Against 2 - Abstentions

Note: Councillor Edwards-Daem entered the meeting during consideration of this application (6.10 p.m.), and did not participate in the discussion or the voting.