Issue - meetings

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

The Committee considered application 23/01144/OUT, an outline planning application, together with associated access off Bloxham Road (all other matters reserved), for up to 90 homes (use class C3) together with associated infrastructure and open space, landscaping, including provision of land for new village hall (use class F2(b)) and retail space (use class E) at Land South of Bloxham Road Bloxham Road Milcombe for Neptune Land Promotion Ltd.

Councillor Myra Peters, on behalf of Milcombe Parish Council, addressed the Committee in objection to the application.

Arron Twamley, on behalf of the agent to the application, Arc Planning Associates, addressed the Committee in support of the application.

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

Resolved

That, in line with the officer’s recommendation, application 23/01144/OUT be refused for the following reasons:

1.         The proposals would result in a disproportionate development when considered against the scale of the existing village and the cumulative impact of growth already carried out in village within the plan period and available facilities within the village and would be predominantly reliant on the private car to carry out day-to-day activity and the application site is not well located to existing services and facilities. The proposals would cause significant adverse landscape impacts to the settlement character which could not be avoided or mitigated by the proposed development, by further development within the open countryside, resulting in further urbanisation of the village. The proposals would be harmful development to the village of Milcombe and the wider aims of Policies Villages 1 and Villages 2 and result in unsustainable growth that would not be capable of mitigation. The proposals would therefore be contrary to Policies PSD1, BSC1, ESD1, ESD13, ESD15, Villages 1 and Villages 2 of the Cherwell Local Plan 2011 - 2031 Part 1; saved Policies C28 and C30 of the Cherwell Local Plan 1996 and the aims and objectives of 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/services contributions required as a result of the development, and necessary to make the impacts of the development acceptable in planning terms. As such, the proposal is contrary to Policy INF1 of the Cherwell Local Plan 2011- 2031, CDC’s Planning Obligations SPD 2018 and Government guidance within the National Planning Policy Framework.