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17/506306 - Hen And Duckhurst Farm, Marden Road, Staplehurst, Tonbridge, Kent, TN12 0PD

Meeting: 24/05/2018 - Planning Committee (Item 21)

21 17/506306 - APPROVAL OF RESERVED MATTERS APPLICATION FOR THE ERECTION OF 250 DWELLINGS (APPEARANCE, LANDSCAPING, LAYOUT AND SCALE BEING SOUGHT) AND DETAILS OF CONDITIONS 5, 7, 9, AND 10 RELATING TO PHASING, LANDSCAPING AND ECOLOGY, PURSUANT TO 14/502010/OUT (OUTLINE APPLICATION FOR THE ERECTION OF RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT FOR UP TO 250 DWELLINGS WITH ACCESS AND GARAGING WITH ACCESS CONSIDERED AT THIS STAGE AND ALL OTHER MATTERS RESERVED FOR FUTURE CONSIDERATION) - HEN AND DUCKHURST FARM, MARDEN ROAD, STAPLEHURST, TONBRIDGE, KENT PDF 287 KB

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Minutes:

All Members except Councillors Bartlett, Harwood, Kimmance and Parfitt-Reid stated that they had been lobbied.

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

By way of an update, the Principal Planning Officer advised the Committee that:

· Members should have received a letter from Staplehurst Parish Council providing commentary and some interpretation of the Staplehurst Neighbourhood Plan policies, but this did not affect the Officers’ views set out in the report.

· Since the publication of the agenda, three letters had been received from local residents raising issues including the setting of the Hen and Duckhurst listed building, loss of hedges, loss of privacy and surface water. These issues had been covered in full in the report and the recommendation remained unchanged.

· A request had been made for the Secretary of State to call in the application for consideration. The Secretary of State had responded stating that he would not be intervening in the application as the case did not raise more than local issues.

· The Staplehurst Neighbourhood Plan was not listed in the Policy and Other Considerations section of the report (an oversight for which he apologised), but the Plan had been fully considered in reaching the Officers’ recommendation.

Mr Curtis, an objector, Councillor Buller of Staplehurst Parish Council, and Mr Cooper, for the applicant, addressed the meeting.

RESOLVED: That consideration of this application be deferred to seek to mitigate the impact of the development on the privacy and amenity of existing residents at the Lime Trees estate by moving the new houses further away from the eastern boundary of the site and providing more of a landscape buffer along the edge.

Voting: 8 – For 3 – Against 2 – Abstentions

FURTHER RESOLVED: That the details to be submitted pursuant to condition 18 of outline permission 14/502010 (Foul and surface water sewerage disposal) are to be discussed with Ward Members and the Parish Council before the condition is discharged.

Voting: 13 – For 0 – Against 0 – Abstentions