Issue - meetings

To consider planning application TM/18/00357/OA for replacement of an existing static mobile home with a detached dwelling as permanent accommodation for an agricultural worker associated with the plant nursery at Taylors Lane, Trottiscliffe, adjourned for determination by the full Council in accordance with Council Procedure Rule No 15.25.

Consideration was given to the report of the Director of Planning, Housing and Environmental Health in relation to application TM/18/00357/OA for replacement of an existing static mobile home with a detached dwelling as permanent accommodation for an agricultural worker associated with the plant nursery at Taylors Lane, Trottiscliffe.  The application had been adjourned for determination by the full Council in accordance with Council Procedure Rule No 15.25 following consideration by the Area 2 Planning Committee on 7 November 2018.

In order to facilitate the proper consideration of the application, the Council agreed to suspend its own procedure rules and resolved itself into a committee to which rules relating to a planning committee were applied.

In reaching its decision, the Council had regard to the reports considered by the Area 2 Planning Committee on 26 September and 7 November 2018 including the report of the Director of Central Services and Monitoring Officer which contained exempt information (LGA 1972 Sch 12A Paragraph 5 – Information in respect of which a claim to legal professional privilege could be maintained in legal proceedings).

RESOLVED:  That planning permission be REFUSED for the following reason:

The proposed development by virtue of its overall height and bulk would cause harm to the openness of the Green Belt and is therefore inappropriate development, which is harmful by definition, and would also cause material harm to the open nature of the Green Belt. It is not considered that there are any very special circumstances that would clearly outweigh this identified harm and as such the development is contrary to the requirements of policy CP3 of the Tonbridge and Malling Borough Core Strategy 2007 and paragraphs 143 – 145 of the National Planning Policy Framework 2019.