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RESOLVED
 
That planning application 2024/1051/OUT
be REFUSED contrary to the Officer’s recommendation
for the following reasons:
 
The Somerset East area is currently not able
to demonstrate a five-year supply of deliverable housing sites.
However, the application of policies in the National Planning
Policy Framework that protect heritage assets provides a strong
reason for refusing the development proposed, as set out below, and
therefore the 'tilted balance' is not engaged. The development site
is located outside of the development limit and would result in a
cumulative change to the general character of the area, adversely
affecting the significance of the nationally important heritage
asset at Glastonbury Tor (ST MICHAELS CHURCH TOWER (scheduled
monument and grade I listed building, list entry number 1345475))
through development in its setting.
 
Great weight is attached to the conservation
of the asset, which is an asset of the highest significance.
 
The identified level of harm to the heritage
asset is less than substantial and this harm is not considered to
be outweighed by the public benefits of the proposal.
 
The proposed development is considered to be
contrary to local plan Policy CP1, being located outside the
settlement limits, and Policy DP3, as the public benefits of the
proposal would not outweigh the harm to the asset's significance,
through development in its setting, of the Mendip District Local
Plan Part 1: Strategy & Policies, Adopted 15th December 2014
and with the plan as a whole.
 
Votes – 5 for,
3 against, 2 abstentions