Decision details

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The Committee refused the application contrary to the recommendation in the report from the Joint Director for Planning and Economic Development. Members considered

1.     that the proposed development, outside the village framework represented unsustainable development because of the lack of public transport from the proposed site to the village centre, and the cumulative impact of the additional population growth on the capacity of services and facilities in Swavesey;

2.     that the level of trips generated by additional traffic, and the number of primary and secondary school age children occupying the development, would have an adverse impact on the capacity of the road network, schools and the doctor’s surgery;

3.     that the proposal did not make adequate provision for the mitigation of foul sewage drainage, and therefore failed to meet the definition of sustainable development because of its detrimental social and environmental impact;

4.     that the harm resulting from the proposal significantly and demonstrably outweighed the benefits and, as a result, that the proposal was contrary to paragraph 7 of the National Planning Policy Framework,    and Policies  DP/1 and DP/2 of the South Cambridgeshire Local Development Framework 2007.