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110209 | ASDA | PA10/08329 Conclusions and Recommendations | Agenda Reports Pack (Public) 09/02/2011

Extract from Agenda Reports Pack (Public) 09/02/2011, 09:30 (Planning Officers Report to Strategic Planning Meeting of Cornwall Council Wednesday 9th February 2011)

 

STRATEGIC PLANNING COMMITTEE 9 FEBRUARY 2011
Application number: PA10/08329
Site address: Land to the east of Travelodge, Carwin Rise, Hayle
Proposal:
New sports ground to accommodate the relocation of Hayle
Rugby Football Club, comprising two senior rugby pitches
with ancillary floodlighting and ball stop netting, clubhouse
with external spectator stand, associated works and
landscaping and area for potential Phase 2 development to
provide additional training zone
Parish: Hayle
Applicant: Hayle Rugby Football Club and Walker Developments Ltd
Target date for
decision:
21 March 2011
Reason for application
being called to
Committee:
Major application. Scale of site area exceeds thresholds of
two hectares.
Departure: No
Electoral Division Hayle North
Electoral Divisional
Member
Councillor John Pollard
Recommendation Refusal

10. Conclusion
10.1 Whilst it is acknowledged that there would be potential benefits to Hayle Rugby
Football Club in securing the new facilities proposed, it is considered that there
are significant planning policy objections which on balance justify a
recommendation of refusal. There can be little doubt that the existing rugby club
site provides a sequentially preferable site and that the proposed site will cause
harm to the landscape, and would present significant highway safety issues.

11. Recommendation:

Refusal for the following reasons:-

1. The proposed site is outside the built environment of Hayle and would represent
development of a green-field site in the countryside for which no robust
justification has been provided. The existing site presents fewer adverse visual
impacts and is in a more easily and safely accessed location in terms of
pedestrian access. The site will appear as being separate from the built form of
the service area to the west by virtue of the tree screen at the west boundary
of the site and due to the siting of the clubhouse away from the built
development at this part of Hayle. The proposal is therefore contrary to
Regional Planning Guidance – South West policies VIS1, VIS2, Cornwall
Structure Plan policies 1, 3, 13 and 26 and Penwith Local Plan policies TV1 and
R1.

2. The proposed sports facility elements of the regular terracing, floodlighting, ball
stop netting and clubhouse design would be of a form that will not integrate
with the character of the rural landscape within which the sports facility would
be viewed to the detriment of the character and appearance of the rural
landscape. The proposed planting to mitigate the visual impact of the
development will be ineffective for a number of years and once fully mature will
fail to mitigate harm to the character and appearance of the landscape to an
acceptable level and will harm important views of the countryside from the
north and the south. The proposal is therefore contrary to Planning Policy
Statement 7 – Sustainable Development in Rural Areas in terms of landscape
protection, Regional Planning Guidance – South West policy VIS2 and SS18,
Cornwall Structure Plan policies 1, 2, 26 and Penwith Local Plan policies GD1,
CC1, TV1 and R1 as well as failing to meet the aims of policy GD3 in terms of
mitigation of impact through landscaping and planting.

3. The proposed sports facility would require pedestrians to travel further than to
the existing sports facility at Marsh Lane and would also require pedestrians
and cyclists to cross Marsh Lane and Carwin Rise to access the new sports
ground as well as crossing the exits from the adjacent petrol filling station. The
proposed footpath improvements are not considered to overcome the additional
risk to pedestrians arising from the need to cross additional roads to access the
site. The proposal is therefore contrary to Cornwall Structure Plan policies 27
and 28 in terms of accessibility and safety and Penwith Local Plan policy GD2
(v) in terms of provision of safe and attractive walking routes

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