Issue - meetings

Refused, against officer recommendation. Reasons to be set out in the minutes.

The Committee considered application 22/02104/F for the erection of 35 two storey dwelling houses, construction of access off Rye Hill, together with garaging, parking, open space with LAP, landscaping and all enabling works at Land To The Rear Of No.12 And South Of Dismantled Railway Heath Close, Milcombe, OX15 4RZ for Stoic Roofing and Construction and Abbeymill Homes.

Chris Hill, local resident, addressed the Committee in objection to the application.

Tim Northey, on behalf of the applicant, Abbeymill Homes, addressed the Committee in support of the application.

In reaching its decision the Committee considered the officers’ report, presentation, and addresses from the public speakers.

Resolved

That application 22/02014/F be refused, contrary to the officer’s recommendation, for the following reasons:

1.         Cherwell District Council is able to demonstrate 5.4 years housing land supply and therefore the housing strategy Policies in the Local Plan are up-to-date. The development of this site would conflict with the adopted policies in the Cherwell Local Plan and would undermine the housing strategy in the Cherwell Local Plan. The site is located outside the built form of the village, and within an area of open countryside and the proposed development would not contribute to the enhancement of the built environment of Milcombe, which is further exacerbated by the low density of the development. The principle of this development is therefore unacceptable and the application is as contrary to Policies BSC1, BSC2, Villages 1 and Villages 2 of the Cherwell Local Plan 2011-2031, Saved Policy H18 of Cherwell Local Plan 1996 and Government guidance within the National Planning Policy Framework.

2.         In the absence of a satisfactory unilateral undertaking or any other form of Section 106 legal agreement, the Local Planning Authority is not satisfied that the proposed development provides for appropriate infrastructure contributions required as a result of the development and necessary to make the impacts of the development acceptable in planning terms, to the detriment of both existing and proposed residents and workers and contrary to policy INF 1 of the Cherwell Local Plan 2015, CDC’s Planning Obligations SPD 2018 and Government guidance within the National Planning Policy Framework.