PROPOSALS to move Thame’s Cattle market to an out-of-town site, face a rocky road next Wednesday, when district planners will decide to accept or reject Planning Officers’ recommendations to reject the plan.
The plans, to build a new Cattle market adjacent to the Thame Show Ground, will go before South Oxfordshire District Council’s Planning Committee on August 8.
Thame Town Council, however, have recommended Approval of the plans subject to “substantial improved access and egress arrangements for site and the Lea Park Estate” and “Restriction on hours of Cattle Market traffic.”
SODC Planning Officers are recommending that planning permission should be refused for the following reasons:
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“1. That, having regard to its location, in an attractive area of countryside, beyond the existing built development at Thame, the proposed buildings, and hardstandings and access way, would detract from the rural landscape character and visual amenity of the locality, and the setting of Thame, contrary to Policies G2, G4 and C1 of the adopted South Oxfordshire Local Plan. Insufficient justification exists to justify overriding the policies.
2. That insufficient information accompanies the application to demonstrate that the foul drainage can be adequately dealt with. In the absence of such information, the development would be contrary to Policy EP7 of the adopted South Oxfordshire Local Plan. “
To read more information about the plans and the relevant planning policies relating to the application, visit: Link
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