Decision details

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

The Committee refused the application contrary to the recommendation in the report from the Planning and New Communities Director. Members agreed the reasons for refusal as being encroachment into the countryside, contrary to Policy DP/7 (Development Frameworks) of the South Cambridgeshire Local Development Framework 2007, and the need to guard against incremental growth.

Members resolved to take enforcement proceedings as might be indicated, including the issue of Enforcement Notices and a notice under Section 215 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 as officers consider appropriate, with three-months allowed for compliance, in respect of the unauthorised change of use from agricultural land outside the development framework to use as garden land, and the unauthorised use of part of the site as a builder’s yard, which was considered detrimental to visual amenity.