Issue - meetings
12/0768 - Twyford Boat Yard, Hampstead Lane, Yalding, Maidstone, Kent, ME18 6HG
Meeting: 17/11/2016 - Planning Committee (Item 223)
Additional documents:
- 12/0768 - Committee Report, item 223
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- 12/0768_urgent update, item 223
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- 12-0768, item 223
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Minutes:
The Committee considered the report and the urgent update report of the Head of Planning and Development.
Councillor Brown of Yalding 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 virtue of its unsustainable location, its position within the functional flood plain and the inaccessible island nature of the site during a flood event, would result in harm to the countryside and unacceptable risk to life. The harm acknowledged was not outweighed by the health and safety benefits of the proposal or the needs of the manager to live on site. The proposal therefore failed to accord with Paragraphs 55, 100 and 103 of the National Planning Policy Framework 2012 and Paragraphs 039 and 040 of National Planning Policy Guidance: Flood Risk and Coastal Change.
RESOLVED: That permission be refused for the following reason:
The proposed development, by virtue of its unsustainable location, its position within the functional flood plain and the inaccessible island nature of the site during a flood event, would result in harm to the countryside and unacceptable risk to life. The harm acknowledged is not outweighed by the health and safety benefits of the proposal or the needs of the manager to live on site. The proposal therefore fails to accord with Paragraphs 55, 100 and 103 of the National Planning Policy Framework 2012 and Paragraphs 039 and 040 of National Planning Policy Guidance: Flood Risk and Coastal Change.
Voting: 10 – For 0 – Against 1 – Abstention