Issue - meetings

Outline application for the erection of up to 110 dwellings including access.

A site visit was held in respect of this application on Monday 22^nd April 2024 by Cllrs Mandy Bannon, Louise Belcher, Dave Brookes, Keith Budden, John Hanson, Paul Newton and Joyce Pritchard. In attendance was Planning Applications Manager Mark Jackson. 

Under the scheme of public participation, Councillor Tim Hamilton-Cox spoke against the application. Stuart Booth, of JWPC Ltd, responded on behalf of the applicants in favour. Ward Councillor Sarah Punshon then spoke against the application.

It was proposed by Councillor Sue Tyldesley and seconded by Councillor Martin Bottoms:

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

Upon being put to the vote, 11 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, if the application was to be determined by Lancaster City Council and an appeal on the grounds of non-determination had not been submitted, Outline Planning Permission would have been refused for the following reasons:

1.      The proposal fails to provide a financial contribution towards projects to mitigate the impacts on the wider highway as a result of the development and also fails to demonstrate how access to public transport at the site would be improved. Without necessary mitigation, the development would result in a severe impact in terms of both safety and congestion and is therefore contrary to the aims and objectives of the National Planning Policy Framework, in particular Sections 9 and policies DM58, DM60 and DM64 of the Development Management Development Plan Document.