Decision details

S/0851/16/FL - Bar Hill (Hallmark Hotel, Land South side of Huntingdon Road)

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

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Purpose:

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

Decision:

The Committee refused the application contrary to the recommendation in the report from the Head of Development Management. Members agreed the reasons for refusal as being

 

1.     That the proposal, by virtue of its bulk, height, massing and overbearing nature, was out of character with the local area, and that the overall design was contrary to Policy DP/2 of the South Cambridgeshire Local Development Framework 2007; and

 

2.     the need for affordable housing in this location is considered to outweigh the benefits of a high specification design.

Publication date: 05/08/2016

Date of decision: 03/08/2016

Decided at meeting: 03/08/2016 - Planning Committee

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