Month: <span>June 2015</span>

Licensing of New Vicar

St Lukes Church, Hodnet.
Rev. Edith Quirey will be licensed as the new Vicar of Hodnet at a service in St. Luke’s Church on Tuesday 16 June at 7:00pm. The licensing will be conducted by the Bishop of Lichfield.
More information from Janice Parker, 01630 685531 or email.

Cat Missing in Wollerton

Catherine Edwards has asked the Hodnet website to help her locate a semi-feral cat has which gone missing in Wollerton.
Belle is a small tortoiseshell female with orange patches on her back. She is about 6-8 years old. If spotted please contact Grinshill Rescue on 07740 103393 who will attempt to catch her.
Please do not try and catch her yourself.

Drayton Road Planning Application – going to committee

Drayton Road Proposed Site Plan
This morning (2 June, 2015) Shropshire Council’s Planning Department posted the agenda for next week’s North Planning Committee. The first planning application on the agenda is the outline one for 14 dwellings on land off Drayton Road, Hodnet TF9 3NF. Previous reports on this application can be found here and here.
The documentation for the meeting, including the Agenda containing the Development Management Report for the Hodnet site, can be downloaded from this page on the Council’s website (or the DMR can be downloaded as a separate document via this link). The relevant section starts on page 10 of the “Agenda reports pack” and continues until page 29. Section 3 explains why the application has been sent to Committee:

3.0 REASON FOR COMMITTEE DETERMINATION OF APPLICATION
3.1 The Parish Council have submitted a view contrary to officers based on material planning reasons which cannot reasonably be overcome by negotiation or the imposition of planning conditions. The Principal Planning Officer in consultation with the committee chairman agrees that the Parish Council has raised material planning issues and that the application should be determined by committee.

The Parish Council’s objections are listed in section 4.1.8. In addition there have been 31 public comments objecting to the application and 3 in support of it. The Planning Officer’s conclusions are expressed as follows:

7.0  CONCLUSION
7.1 The proposed development is considered to represent sustainable development in a sustainable location having regard to the three dimensions of sustainable development and is therefore acceptable in principle. It is not considered that there would be any significant adverse impacts of the proposal that would outweigh the benefits. The proposed layout, scale and appearance of the scheme is considered acceptable and will reflect the historic appearance and character of this rural village and will not have any significant adverse impact on residential amenity and would not result in significant or demonstrable harm to the character and appearance of the locality.  The proposal would not result in the  loss of any significant trees, and have no adverse highway or ecological implications subject to conditions being imposed and landscape details will be determined as  part of an application for reserved matters. The on site affordable housing provision and any balance of AHC will be secured by a S106 agreement. It is therefore considered that the proposal accords with Shropshire LDF policies CS6, CS11, and CS17  and the aims and provisions of the NPPF.
7.2 In arriving at this decision the Council has used its best endeavours to work with the applicants in a positive and proactive manner to secure an appropriate outcome as required in the National Planning Policy Framework paragraph 187. The Council being of the opinion that the detrimental impacts associated with the proposed development outweigh any public benefits in relationship to the proposal.

The meeting is to take place at 2.00pm on Tuesday, 9 June 2015 in the Shrewsbury/Oswestry Room, Shirehall, Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY2 6N. It is not clear from the documentation if members of the public are able to attend this meeting.
The other local application being considered by the committee on this occasion is for the erection of a detached dwelling at Long Lane Farm, Long Lane, Marchamley, Shropshire, SY4 5LB (Ref. No. 14/05739/FUL).