Issue - meetings

Full planning permission refused.

Registered speaker: Chris Charlton (Objector)

After careful consideration, it was proposed by Councillor Christopher France, seconded by Councillor Paul Walmsley and subsequently RESOLVED (unanimously) – That full planning permission be refused for the following reason:

1)    The site lies in an area not identified for growth within policy 1 of the Central Lancashire Core Strategy, which seeks to direct growth and investment towards the most sustainable locations. The proposed development forms part of a wider development scheme that is not small scale or limited to appropriate infilling, conversion of buildings or meeting local need, but that demonstrated exceptional reasons advanced in support of a larger scale development. The removal of the scout hut as a community facility therefore goes to the heart of the original outline planning permission for the site. Without the scout hut the benefits associated with the proposed development do not amount to exceptional reasons for a larger scale redevelopment of the site and the development as a whole is, therefore, contrary to policy 1 of the Central Lancashire Core Strategy and the spatial vision that underlies it. The presumption in favour of sustainable development set out at paragraph 11 of the National Planning Policy Framework does not, therefore, apply to the proposed development.