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(A)Five detached 5-bedroom two storey detached dwellings along with the provision of individual surface water soakaway to meet BRE Digest 365 standards for each dwelling house. (B) Provision of new vehicular entrance off main road providing for sufficient traffic sight lines onto public road along with all necessary ancillary and site works to facilitate this development. (C) Provision of internal road network servicing the development with new landscaped public park and green areas with new pedestrian and cycle paths whilst providing hard and soft landscaping within the development along with all associated site development, new boundary treatments and landscaping works. (D) Proposed connection of each of five dwellings to individual proposed waste water treatment systems and percolations areas to meet current EPA standards until such time that Newcastle waste water treatment plant has been upgraded and then the 5no. houses shall be connected into Newcastle waste water treatment plant and the individual waste water treatment systems shall then be decommissioned. (F) Installation of an underground storm water attenuation tank and connection to all public service utilities.
Core Refusal Reason
The proposal constitutes premature and piecemeal development that leapfrogs sequentially preferable zoned land and relies on unsustainable private wastewater infrastructure within a settlement boundary.
Decision Maker's Conclusion
- The development would result in 'leapfrogging' of secondary development lands, contravening the sequential approach to development as outlined in Chapter 4 and Objective HD7 of the County Development Plan.
- The proposal represents piecemeal and premature development that would create an isolated 'island' of housing remote from the main road, surrounded by undeveloped lands without planning certainty.
- The reliance on individual wastewater treatment systems for a multi-house development within the Newcastle settlement boundary is unsustainable and contrary to policies directing development to locations with public sewer services.