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18/501471 - Mid Kent Roofing Yard, Forstal Lane, Harrietsham, Kent ME17 1LA

 

 

Meeting: 23/08/2018 - Planning Committee (Item 113)

113 18/501471 - ERECTION OF A COVERED DRY STORE (RE-SUBMISSION OF 17/505103/FULL) - MID KENT ROOFING YARD, FORSTAL LANE, HARRIETSHAM, KENT pdf icon PDF 268 KB

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Minutes:

The Chairman and Councillors Bartlett, Boughton, M Burton, Kimmance, Munford, Perry, Spooner and Wilby stated that they had been lobbied.

 

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

 

Ms Wallace, an objector, and Councillor Powell, on behalf of Harrietsham Parish Council, addressed the meeting.

 

Contrary to the recommendation of the Head of Planning and Development, the Committee agree to refuse permission.  In making this decision, Members felt that the proposal, due to its height, scale, prominence and permanence will have an adverse and detrimental visual impact upon the surrounding open countryside and foreground and setting of the nearby Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.  The proposal also fails to satisfactorily integrate into the local landscape.  As such the proposal is contrary to policies DM1, DM30, DM37 and SP17 of the Maidstone Borough Local Plan.

 

RESOLVED:  That permission be refused for the following reason:

 

The proposal, due to its height, scale, prominence and permanence will have an adverse and detrimental visual impact upon the surrounding open countryside and foreground and setting of the nearby Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.  The proposal also fails to satisfactorily integrate into the local landscape.  As such the proposal is contrary to policies DM1, DM30, DM37 and SP17 of the Maidstone Borough Local Plan.

 

Voting:  10 – For  0 – Against  1 - Abstention