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19/500271 - Oakhurst, Stilebridge Lane

Meeting: 30/05/2019 - Planning Committee (Item 20)

20 19/500271/FULL - CHANGE OF USE OF LAND FOR THE STATIONING OF 20 HOLIDAY CARAVANS WITH ASSOCIATED WORKS INCLUDING LAYING OF HARDSTANDING AND BIN STORE - OAKHURST, STILEBRIDGE LANE, MARDEN, TONBRIDGE, KENT pdf icon PDF 131 KB

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Minutes:

All Members except Councillors Adkinson, Kimmance, Parfitt-Reid, Spooner and Vizzard stated that they had been lobbied.

 

The Committee considered the report and the urgent update report of the Head of Planning and Development.

 

In presenting the report, the Major Projects Manager advised the Committee that, in addition to the amendments proposed in the urgent update report, he needed to add a drawing that was missed off the approved drawing list and a condition to the effect that notwithstanding the illustrative layout, no caravans will be sited in the approved areas of soft landscaping.

 

Ms Whittaker, an objector, Councillor Mannington of Marden Parish Council, Mr Nicholls, for the applicant, and Councillor D Burton (Visiting Member) addressed the meeting.

 

RESOLVED:  That consideration of this application be deferred to:

 

Seek further information to assess the visual impact, the potential level of harm, the details of the mitigation and the benefits arising, this to include:

 

·  Details of the actual layout of the site including hard and soft landscaping and any associated facilities and lighting;

·  Details of the scale and design parameters;

·  Further detail in terms of demonstrating both local and longer distance views and how these can be mitigated;

·  More details in terms of landscaping, including a net gain for biodiversity with the incorporation of hedgerow trees reflecting the Council’s Landscape Character Assessment Guidance in the proposed mixed native hedgerow along the northern boundary of the site, extension of the Ancient Woodland buffer westward to provide a habitat link to the pond and ditch network on the Stilebridge Lane frontage and fencing along the Ancient Woodland buffer (Chestnut spile);

·  Details of the lighting strategy; and

·  Clarification in terms of sustainability (role of rural tourism), the economic benefits and the business model, including identification of the need for this type of use, the model for occupation (for example, whether these would be short-let units managed by the site owners) and information about how the site and the landscape and ecology elements would be managed.

 

Voting:  11 – For  1 – Against  1 – Abstention