Issue - meetings

REFUSED

Description of application - Proposed rear garden annexe to provide living accommodation for a family member, subservient to the main house.

Oral representations in support of the application were received. Oral representations from Ward Member, Councillor Russell Mellor in objection to the application were received at the meeting.  It was reported that further objections to the application had been received.

Councillor Mellor objected to the application being a backgarden overdevelopment on a greenfield site.  He sympathised with the applicant and the applicant’s offer to supply a solicitor’s letter to confirm  the proposed development was for personal use was rejected.  If the proposed development were built ancillary to the host dwelling it could be severed in future and would be against the Unitary Development Plan and the Proposed Draft Local Plan. 

Members having considered the report, objections and representations, RESOLVED that PERMISSION BE REFUSED as recommended, for the following reason:-

1.  The proposal, by reason of its siting and use, is not considered to represent an ancillary form of accommodation and is capable of being severed and used as a separate dwellinghouse which would result in a cramped form of development, out of character with the area and contrary to Policies BE1 and H8 of the Unitary Development Plan (2006) and Policy 7 of the Draft Local Plan.