Agenda item

Copies of the following papers attached:-

There had been circulated copies of the request from Mr Stuart Corrigan, per Andrew Bennie Planning Limited to review the decision to refuse the planning application for erection of two dwellinghouses in the paddock north of Station House, Cowdenburn.  The supporting papers included the Notice of Review (including the Officer’s Report and Decision Notice); papers referred to in the Officer’s Report, consultations; and a list of policies. In noting the site of the proposed development, Members referred to their determination of a previous application as documented in the Notice of Review submission and which related to a site on the eastern side of the road and where they had agreed a building group was present. In this regard Members re-stated their interpretation of the boundary of that building group which, whilst noting their presence, did not include the buildings on the opposite side of the road and the site of the proposed development.  After further consideration they concluded that the site was not a well related addition to the building group.  They also noted that in terms of the scale of addition, there was no further capacity to extend the building group within the current Local Development Plan period. 

DECISION

AGREED that:-

(a)        the request for review had been competently made in terms of Section 43A of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997;

(b)       the review could be considered without the need for any further procedure on the basis of the papers submitted;

(c)        the proposal would be contrary to the Development Plan and that there were no other material considerations that would justify departure from the Development Plan; and

(d)       the officer’s decision to refuse the application be upheld and the application be refused, for the reasons detailed in Appendix I to this Minute