Issue - meetings

3 Public Speakers

Cllr Peter Atkins – Pagham Parish Council

Rachael Lamb – Agent

Cllr David Huntley – Arun District Council Ward Member

Reserved matters application following P/30/19/OUT (providing details of layout, scale, appearance and landscaping) in relation to the provision of an 80-bed care home.

The Principal Planning Officer presented the report with updates. This was followed by 3 Public Speakers. Members then took part in a debate on the application where a number of points were raised and responded to by Officers. Clarification was sought over the detailed measurements of each storey and the height of the building overall. These were provided to the best of what the Principal Planning Officer had available, but the Group Head of Planning explained that the Committee was being asked in the narrow scope of this reserved matters application to consider the scale of the building overall and whether it was appropriate in its contextrather than individual storey heights.

Other Members spoke against the application and its height, questioning whether the building was too big for its rural setting and would be better suited to a town centre location, and the difficulty of fitting 80 beds into the site footprint. One Member did speak in support of the design but accepted that it did not reflect the locality.A recommendation to defer for further discussion on an even re-distribution of the 80 beds on the plot resulting in a building comparable in height to the existing buildings in this part of Pagham was proposed by Councillor Bower and seconded by Councillor Hamilton.

The Committee

RESOLVED

That the application be DEFERRED for further discussion on an even re-distribution of the 80 beds on the plot resulting in a building comparable in height to the existing buildings in this part of Pagham.