Issue - meetings

In connection with proposed drive to create two off road car parking spaces and pavement crossing at 25 Longhurst Lane, Marple Bridge.

The Committee is recommended to refuse planning permission.

Officer contact: Fiona Albarracin on 0161 474 4561 or email: fiona.albarracin@stockport.gov.uk

In respect of plan no. 57831 for a proposed drive to create two off road car parking spaces and pavement crossing at 25 Longhurst Lane, Marple Bridge, it was

MOVED AND SECONDED – That planning permission be refused on the grounds that the proposed development would fail to preserve or enhance the special character and appearance of the Marple Bridge Conservation Area and would consequently be contrary to the requirements of Policy SIE-3 "Protecting, Safeguarding and Enhancing the Environment and Saved Policy HC1.3, "Special Control of Development in Conservation Areas", of the Stockport Unitary Development Plan Review and Supplementary Planning Document 'Extensions and Alterations to Dwellings’.  The proposed development also failed to satisfy Highways requirementsas the width and geometry of the proposed access is such that drivers will not be able to manoeuvre into/ out of the access in a safe and practical manner and in a way that will not adversely affect highway safety or the operation of the highway network and would consequently be contrary to Policies CS9, ‘Transport and Development’, SIE-1 ‘Quality Places’ and T-3 ‘Safety and Capacity on the Highway Network’ of the Stockport Core Strategy DPD.

AMENDMENT MOVED AND SECONDED – That planning permission be refused on the ground that the proposed development failed to satisfy Highways requirements as the width and geometry of the proposed access is such that drivers will not be able to manoeuvre into/ out of the access in a safe and practical manner and in a way that will not adversely affect highway safety or the operation of the highway network and would consequently be contrary to Policies CS9, ‘Transport and Development’, SIE-1 ‘Quality Places’ and T-3 ‘Safety and Capacity on the Highway Network’ of the Stockport Core Strategy DPD.

For the amendment 3, against 7.

AMENDMENT NOT CARRIED

It was then

RESOLVED (8 for, 2 against) - That planning permission be refused on the grounds that the proposed development would fail to preserve or enhance the special character and appearance of the Marple Bridge Conservation Area and would consequently be contrary to the requirements of Policy SIE-3 "Protecting, Safeguarding and Enhancing the Environment and Saved Policy HC1.3, "Special Control of Development in Conservation Areas", of the Stockport Unitary Development Plan Review and Supplementary Planning Document 'Extensions and Alterations to Dwellings’.  The proposed development also failed to satisfy Highways requirementsas the width and geometry of the proposed access is such that drivers will not be able to manoeuvre into/ out of the access in a safe and practical manner and in a way that will not adversely affect highway safety or the operation of the highway network and would consequently be contrary to Policies CS9, ‘Transport and Development’, SIE-1 ‘Quality Places’ and T-3 ‘Safety and Capacity on the Highway Network’ of the Stockport Core Strategy DPD.

In connection with proposed drive to create two off road car parking spaces and pavement crossing at 25 Longhurst Lane, Marple Bridge.

The Area Committee are recommended to refuse planning permission.

In respect of plan no. 057831 for permission to create a driveway/are of off road parking and associated access to serve a recently constructed dwelling at 25 Longhurst Lane, Marple Bridge,

A representative of the applicant spoke in support of the application,

It was then

RESOLVED – That the Planning and Highways Regulation Committee be requested to undertake a site visit to consider highway safety issues associated with the proposed development.