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Both Planning Applications for Feniton rejected by DMC this week (cont.)

More details of the meeting (Tuesday 2nd April) are below, and a fuller report is at http://www.claire-wright.org .

A well attended meeting, with 80 or so members of the public, many of them from Feniton village.

The two controversial  planning applications were:

1. 12/2626/MFUL Land north of Acland Park, Feniton – for 32 houses

Rejected 8 to 3 – Cllrs Keys and Atkins voted for the scheme represented by developer David Cutler ( and earlier supported by ex Ward Cllr Brown.)

2. 12/2649/MOUT Land west of Ottery Road, Feniton for 59 houses

Proposal from Strategic Land Partnerships represented by Simon Steele-Perkins was unanimously rejected.

Both applications had been previously rejected by the DMC and as Cllr Twiss observed the committee was being forced to agree applications that “nobody in the room wanted.” There was considerable concern and frustration expressed from panel members that the NPPF “tiger” was being introduced to centrally determine approvals over the wishes of local planning authorities.


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Council Leader Paul Diviani expected to chair Cabinet meeting tomorrow ( 5.30pm, Weds 3rd April, at Knowle)

Members of the public are welcome to attend. Items 9 and 19 on the agenda may be of particular interest.  They are:

Item 9. To note or take appropriate action in respect of the minutes of the meeting of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee held on 28 February 2013.

(SOS readers may have noticed that the minutes of OSC 28 Feb were published, unusually, as part of the agenda for March 28 – possibly an oversight?)
Item 19. Monitoring of formal complaints and Local Government Ombudsman complaints (Quarter 3 2012/2013)
 
Item 20 will be held in private.
The full agenda is available at EDDC ‘s own website, or at http://sidmouthindependentnews.wordpress.com



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Both Planning Applications for Feniton rejected by DMC

The Development Management Committee today turned down two controversial planning applications for housing on greenfield sites at Feniton. They were for 32 and 59 houses, respectively. Councillors Keys and Atkins were the only two to vote in favour of the first planning application.

The quality of debate at the Knowle meeting this afternoon was reportedly of a high standard, from councillors and public alike.  More comment at http://www.claire-wright.org