Decision details

S/0645/13/FL - Waterbeach (land to the west of Cody Road)

Decision Maker: Development and Conservation Control Committee (see also Planning Committee), Planning Committee

Decision status: Recommendations approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Purpose:

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Decision:

This application did not appear on the agenda published on 25 February 2014. However, the Chairman agreed to accept it as a late item by reason of its urgency, namely that: -

 

  • Officers needed Members’ decision before 25 March 2014 because they needed to present the Council’s evidence in relation to a public inquiry by that date to clarify its position in relation to the visual impact of the development and was in the public interest. 

 

  • The next scheduled Planning Committee meeting was not until 2 April 2014, and a decision at that time would compromise the Council’s position in relation to any costs application.

 

  • It was not practical to convene a Special meeting of the Committee.

 

The Committee agreed to amend the putative reason for refusal (ii) be amended so as to read: -

 

“The development would result in the loss of a visually important open buffer, which presently separates Waterbeach and Waterbeach Barracks, to the harm of the setting of each. It would represent an undesirable coalescence of the village and Barracks. As such, the development is contrary to the adopted Local Development Framework 2007 at Policy DP/3, which seeks to prevent development that would have an unacceptable adverse impact on village character; and contrary to  Policy DP/7, which states that outside village frameworks only development for agriculture, horticulture, forestry, outdoor recreation and other uses which need to be located in the countryside will be permitted. The development would conflict with the aims of the policy, which is to seek the protection of the countryside from encroachment and to help guard against incremental growth in unsustainable locations.”

 

Such amendment should help to ensure that the appeal for non-determination is considered against the correct development plan policies and in respect of the correctly identified adverse impacts of the proposed development on this site. 

Publication date: 07/03/2014

Date of decision: 05/03/2014

Decided at meeting: 05/03/2014 - Planning Committee

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