Development Control Meeting
Yesterday's (Monday) development control meeting saw discussion's take place
around an application for the Mount Pleasant Church in Glossop to be
converted to flats.
As there often is, the application received a number of objections with a
range of concerns particularly around parking availability, and on the day
of the meeting (from what I've been told) many of those objectors attended
to make their views know.
Now as you will no doubt see elsewhere the development control committee
resolved to refuse the application citing amongst other reasons that parking
and traffic issues were a concern.
All good and well you may say – a good victory for the committee listening
to local people, my only concern is that whilst the traffic concerns may
well be valid, the application was recommended for approval by officers with
no objections been raised by the traffic experts at Derbyshire County
Council meaning that it may well be a hard job for officers on defending
this decision if the developers decide to take the application to appeal.