Issue - meetings

Outline application for the development of up to 23 residential dwellings and creation of a new access.

It was proposed by Councillor Robert Redfern and seconded by Councillor Martin Bottoms:

“That the application be refused for the reason in the Committee Report.”

Upon being put to the vote, 13 Councillors voted in favour of the proposal with none against and no abstentions, whereupon the Chair declared the proposal to have been carried.

Resolved:

That the application be refused for the following reason:

Inappropriate development in areas at risk of flooding should be avoided by directing development away from areas at highest risk (whether existing or future). The aim of the sequential test is to steer new development to areas with the lowest risk of flooding from any source. Development should not be allocated or permitted if there are reasonably available sites appropriate for the proposed development in areas with a lower risk of flooding. The proposed site access is within an area that is at high risk of groundwater flooding, with further areas of medium groundwater flooding within the site. The failure to provide a Sequential Test does not satisfy the requirements of the Sequential Test, and has not satisfactorily demonstrated that the development cannot be accommodated elsewhere within the district that would be at a lower risk of flooding.  Therefore, the proposal is contrary to policy DM33 of the Review of the Development Management Development Plan Document, policy SP8 of the Strategic Policies and Land Allocations Development Plan Document, and Section 14 of the National Planning Policy Framework.