Decision details

All planning applications for Steeple Morden  considered by the Planning Committee since May 2003. For individual reports, please click on the ‘Meetings’ tab above. For further details on all Steeple Morden  planning applications, please visit our Planning Applications Database and select Steeple Morden  from the drop-down list of parishes

The Committee gave officers delegated powers to approve the application, subject to further consultation with Steeple Morden Parish Council and liaison with the Planning Committee Chairman, with a view to agreeing  an Affordable Housing  Scheme whereby (i)dwellings would be offered to Qualifying Persons with a local connection to the nearest Parishes to the Site should there be nobody with a local connection to Steeple Morden and then cascading out to those with a local connection to other villages within a 15 mile radius and (ii) because of this site being an "Rural Exception Site" there being suitable wording to reduce the chances that the dwellings would not remain as affordable units in perpetuity because of mortgagee exclusion provisions.