Planners have rejected a request to allow a number of new homes in the Keswick area to keep their Welsh slate roofs, following a requirement to use local materials instead.
image: for illustration – Braithwaite by By Andrew Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0
cumbriacrack writes:
The Lake District National Park Authority’s development control committee refused an application to remove a requirement that five new-build homes in Braithwaite use local slate – mined or quarried in Cumbria – for their roofs.
This requirement formed part of the original planning permission for the development, however Welsh slate was instead used for the construction of the five new properties at Hopegill Gardens, Thelmlea.
The developer, Atkinson Homes, noted in its application documents that Welsh slate has been used “extensively within the area”.
However, members of the development control committee took a dim view of the decision not to use Cumbrian slate with eight of the nine members agreeing not to allow the requirement to be removed.
Committee member Jim Jackson said: “It’s beginning to feel like we’re being ignored in terms of the conditions we put on.
“We put conditions on for a reason. If they’re not complied with, I think people should be made to rectify that situation.”….
