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15/504311 - Christmas Lodge, London Road, Maidstone, Kent, ME16 0DR

 

 

Meeting: 25/02/2016 - Planning Committee (Item 297)

297 15/504311 - DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DETACHED DWELLING, ERECTION OF FOUR STOREY BLOCK OF EIGHT 2 BEDROOM FLATS WITH NEW ACCESS AND ASSOCIATED CAR PARKING - CHRISTMAS LODGE, LONDON ROAD, MAIDSTONE, KENT pdf icon PDF 486 KB

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Minutes:

The Chairman and Councillor Harper stated that they had been lobbied.

 

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

 

Mr Gittings, for the applicant, and Councillor Pickett (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 by reason of its design, bulk, massing and poor articulation fails to promote or reinforce local distinctiveness and fails to improve local character in this prominent and high profile location on the approach to Maidstone Town Centre and as a result fails to achieve good design contrary to Paragraphs 60 and 64 of the National Planning Policy Framework 2012 and Policy H21 of the Maidstone Borough-Wide Local Plan 2000.

 

RESOLVED:  That permission be refused for the following reason:

 

The proposed development by reason of its design, bulk, massing and poor articulation fails to promote or reinforce local distinctiveness and fails to improve local character in this prominent and high profile location on the approach to Maidstone Town Centre and as a result fails to achieve good design contrary to Paragraphs 60 and 64 of the National Planning Policy Framework 2012 and Policy H21 of the Maidstone Borough-Wide Local Plan 2000.

 

Voting:  12 – For  0 – Against  0 – Abstentions