Agenda item

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

The Committee considered application 22/03869/OUT, outline planning application for a residential development for up to 53 dwellings with All Matters Reserved except for Access at Land To The North Of Wimborn Close And Mackley Close, Deddington for Pembury Webb Ltd.

Helen Oldfield, Chair of Deddington Parish Council, and Alan Collins, Deddington PC Member and chair of Deddington Neighbourhood Plan steering group, addressed the Committee in objection to the application.

Mervyn Dobson, on behalf of the applicant, Pembury Webb Ltd, and David Rogers, local resident, spoke to support of the application.

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

It was proposed by Councillor Reynolds and seconded by Councillor Wood that application 22/03869/OUT be approved, in line with the officer recommendation.

On being put to the vote, the proposal was lost and the motion subsequently fell.

It was proposed by Councillor Broad and seconded by Councillor Billington that application 22/03869/OUT, contrary to the officer recommendation, be refused to due to the reason of its location and the proposed scale of development, the proposal would have a poor and incongruous relationship with the existing settlement appearing prominent in the open countryside. Its development would therefore have an adverse effect on the landscape setting of Deddington to the detriment of the character and appearance of the countryside and that the Council is able to demonstrate a 5.4-year housing land supply, and therefore the housing strategy in the Local Plan is up to date.

Resolved

That application 22/03869/OUT be refused, contrary to the officer’s recommendation, for the following reasons:

1.         The site is located outside the built form of Deddington and within an area of open countryside, which has not been allocated for development within the Cherwell Local Plan 2011-2031 or the emerging Deddington Neighbourhood Plan. By reason of its location and the proposed scale of development, the proposal would have a poor and incongruous relationship with the existing settlement appearing prominent in the open countryside. Its development would therefore have an adverse effect on the landscape setting of Deddington to the detriment of the character and appearance of the countryside. In addition, the Council is able to demonstrate a 5.4-year housing land supply, and therefore the housing strategy in the Local Plan is up to date. The proposed development of this site would conflict with the adopted policies in the Local Plan to which substantial weight should be attached. The proposed development is therefore contrary to Policies ESD13, ESD15, BSC1, PSD1 and Villages 2 of the Cherwell Local Plan 2011-2031 Part 1, 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 INF1 of the Cherwell Local Plan 2011-2031 Part 1, CDC’s Planning Obligations SPD 2018 and Government guidance within the National Planning Policy Framework.