Agenda and minutes
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(Papers previously issued for Local Review Body meeting of 15 August 2016). Minutes: CONTINUE CONSIDERATION OF REVIEW OF APPLICATION 16/00162/PPP With reference to paragraph 5 of the Minute of 15 August 2016, and following an unaccompanied site visit, Members continued consideration of the request from Mr H. Armstrong, per HM Architecture Ltd, Bloomfield, Heatherlie Park, Selkirk, to review the decision to refuse the planning application in respect of the erection of a dwellinghouse and garage in the garden ground of Lindisfarne, Gattonside. Members agreed that the site visit had been helpful in order to make a realistic appraisal of the access to the site from the east, using the Loan. Although they recognised that the section through the houses was narrow and steep it was not unreasonably so. There were passing places and there was evidence to suggest that drivers took into account the access difficulties by driving carefully and slowly. Also taken into account was the fact that there was an alternative access to the site from the west. After further discussion it was concluded that a house at the proposed site would not lead to significant additional safety implications for road users. Members also discussed the difference in levels between the proposed site and the public road, at the point of access. It was noted that further detailed engineering work would be required as part of the Approval of Matters subject to Conditions (AMC). As there were also concerns about the access to the site by construction traffic it was agreed that a construction phase traffic management plan be requested through condition.
DECISION AGREED that:-
(a) the review could be determined without further procedure on the basis of the papers submitted and the unaccompanied site visit;
(b) the development was consistent with the development plan; and
(c) the decision of the appointed planning officer to refuse the application be reversed and the application for planning permission be granted, subject to conditions, informatives and a legal agreement, for the reasons given in the Appendix to this Minute.
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