Issue - meetings

            CM/4/19/PL – Construction of a crematorium comprising of a crematorium building & associated structures, car parking, access & landscaped spaces.  This application is a Departure from the Development Plan, Land south of the A259, Grevatts Lane, Climping

            Having received a report on the matter, the Committee had also been circulated at the meeting with the officer’s written report update which advised that, following submission of a Soil Survey and Plan and an Agricultural Policy Considerations Report, the proposed reason for refusal 1 was no longer appropriate and should therefore be deleted from the recommendation.

            The Principal Planning Officer presented the detail of the report and confirmed that the recommendation for refusal was reliant on the fact that there was an alternative suitable site as demonstrated by the previous application on the agenda, which was still on the table.  The two reasons for refusal were based on the fact that the site was located within the Littlehampton to Middleton Gap between Settlements and that, as this site had been identified as land liable to flood, an alternative site at lower risk of flooding had been identified for the use proposed.

            Members participated in some discussion and, whilst comment was made that the access and egress to the site onto the A259 was preferable to planning application Y/103/18/PL, general support was expressed for the officer recommendation to refuse.

            The Committee therefore

RESOLVED

That the application be refused as detailed in the report and the officer report update.