Issue - meetings

Refused reasons to be set out in the minutes

The Committee considered application 17/02148/OUT, an outline application for the demolition of an existing club house, bowling club pavilion and ancillary store and the erection of 10 no. dwellings and access improvements at Land adjacent to Cotswold Country Club and south of properties on Bunkers Hill, at Shipton On Cherwell for Keble Homes Limited.

Julian Philcox and Oliver McGovern, agents for the applicant, addressed the committee in support of the application.

In reaching their decision, the committee considered the officers’ report, presentation and written update.

Resolved

That application 17/02148/OUT be refused for the following reasons:

1.               The proposal represents development within the countryside where there is no proven need for agriculture or other existing undertaking and the application has not been made on the basis that it is a rural exceptions site.  As the proposal cannot be justified on the basis of an identified need, it constitutes unsustainable, new build residential development in a rural location which is divorced from established centres of population, not well served by public transport where residents would be reliant on the use of the private car. The proposal therefore results in an environmentally and socially unsustainable form of development.  The development is considered to be prejudicial to the aims of both national and local policy to focus development in areas that will contribute to the general aims of reducing the need to travel by private car.  The proposal is therefore contrary to Saved Policies H18 and C8, of the Cherwell Local Plan1996, Policy Villages 1 of the Cherwell Local Plan 2011-2031 and Government guidance contained in the National Planning Policy Framework.