PERMISSION REFUSED FOR PROPOSED BRIGG HOUSING DEVELOPMENT

Planning permission for housing development in Brigg has been refused.
An application seeking outline permission for residential development was submitted in December 2020 - the suggested location being given as the Car Sales and Storage Area, off Engine Street.
North Lincolnshire Council has now announced its refusal to grant permission.
Its reasons for doing so include: "The proposal is located in part outside the defined development limits for Brigg and within the open countryside. The applicant has not demonstrated that material considerations exist that would support a departure from the development plan."
The council also considered that "the applicant has failed to demonstrate a suitable drainage strategy can be achieved on site and therefore that the development would be safe from flooding for its lifetime. In addition therefore the wider sustainability benefits to the community do not outweigh the risk from flooding."
A Design & Access statement submitted with the application late last year said the site involved about three acres and involved part of the former industrial site of an old iron works running parallel to a terrace of houses along Barnard Street, together with the car sales and Storage area of the Car and Caravan Company, Brigg.
As the site "is mostly within the development boundary and is a brownfield site, there are no constraints against the principle of development of this site," the statement added.
"The benefits would be to provide much-needed housing in the North Lincolnshire Area."
Consulted as part of the planning process, Brigg Town Council told North Lincolnshire planners that it neither supported nor objected to the application but raised concerns about flooding.
Engine Street runs parallel to the A18 (Bridge Street) and is a short distance from the town centre.
Outline planning applications, if approved, sets out the principal of development. In this case, all matters (details) were "reserved for subsequent consideration" by council planners.
Anyone refused planning permission by a local authority has the right to lodge an appeal to be considered by an appointed inspector.

PICTURED ABOVE: The frontage of the proposed site, looking south from Engine Street.