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17/501477 - Land At, Pye Corner, Ulcombe, Kent, ME17 1ED

 

 

Meeting: 19/10/2017 - Planning Committee (Item 241)

241 17/501477 - USE OF LAND FOR THE SITING OF 1 NO. MOBILE HOME, PARKING FOR 1 NO. TOURING CARAVAN AND ERECTION OF AN AMENITY BUILDING FOR A MEMBER OF THE TRAVELLING COMMUNITY - LAND AT PYE CORNER, ULCOMBE, KENT pdf icon PDF 144 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.

 

Mr Kent, for objectors, Councillor Titchener of Ulcombe Parish Council, and Mr Gilham, for the applicant, addressed the meeting.

 

In response to a statement signed by seven local residents confirming that they recalled the applicant saying at a meeting of the Ulcombe Parish Council in April 2017 that she and her husband wanted to settle and live permanently in Ulcombe, and that she did not have a traveller lifestyle, the Principal Planning Officer advised the Committee that a person could permanently live on a Gypsy and Traveller site and have a settled base and still pursue a nomadic habit of life.  The applicant had submitted a Statutory Declaration that she did have a traveller lifestyle as confirmed by her husband at the meeting.  The Officers were content from the evidence submitted under the planning application regarding the applicant’s gypsy status.

 

RESOLVED:  That consideration of this application be deferred to negotiate an amended layout to relocate the mobile home towards the eastern part of the site to reduce the visual impact and impact on neighbouring residential amenity.

 

Voting:  6 – For  3 – Against  1 – Abstention