Decision details

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

The Planning Committee approved the application contrary to the recommendation in the report from the Joint Director for Planning and Economic Development. Members agreed with the officer report that the development would amount to inappropriate development in the Green Belt and other limited harm to the openness and rural character of the area.  They considered that, collectively, the justification put forward by the applicant for the proposal amounted to very special circumstances that would clearly outweigh the in principle harm and other identified harm to the Green Belt in this specific case. In summary, the very special circumstances amounted to the limited  harm the scheme would have to the landscape given that prior approval consent had already been granted for the conversion of the original building on the site which was of a similar size and because the structural condition of that building had unforeseeably led to it being demolished  The proposal was therefore considered to be acceptable in accordance with paragraph 88 of the National Planning Policy Framework.Members agreed that appropriate safeguarding Conditions should be attached to the planning consent, including the removal of Permitted Development Rights.