Agenda item

Description of application – Change of Use application from Class D2 (Fitness Centre / Gym) to Class A1(Retail Use).

Oral representations in objection to the application were received at the meeting.  Comments from Ward Councillors Melanie Stevens and Julian Benington in objection to the application were reported.  It was also reported that a petition had been received with over three hundred signatories in objection to the application and an email had also been received from the Applicant’s Agents in support of the application.

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

1.  The proposal would result in the unacceptable loss of a community facility contrary to Policy C1 of the Unitary Development Plan and the related Section 8 ( in particular paragraph 70) of the National Planning Policy Framework.