A PROPOSAL to build four homes in a Carlisle District hamlet were approved by the city council’s planning committee this week.

Carlisle City Council’s development panel met on Friday, giving a greenlight to plans for four homes on land adjacent to Meadow Cottage in Tarraby.

Councillors deferred giving a verdict on the application in April, questioning the accuracy of traffic data included with the application.

However, following amendments to the traffic survey, the case officer recommended that the proposal is approved.

Case officer Stephen Daniel said: “The application was deferred last time, it was really highway issues, issues with the speed survey. There was an anomaly with the speed survey where it was picking up larger vehicles, it turned out they stored a camera and those larger vehicles were actually two bicycles passing in close proximity to each other, it was logging those as larger vehicles so they have now been removed from the speed survey.

“The highways authority (Cumbria County Council) are happy with the revised report.”

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Chairman of Stanwix Rural Parish Council Craig Nicholson said: “The new traffic count has now been submitted which is based on a survey carried out between Monday April 25 and May 2.

“However, this survey wrongly states the lane has a 30 mile per hour limit, when in fact it is unrestricted at the national limit of 60 miles per hour.”

He said that the survey was not carried out in a location that would collect all relevant data.

“I’m sure the county council lead officer will agree that the survey is a blunt tool, not really quantitative for this type of usage.”

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Two homes for the land adjacent to Meadow Cottage have already been approved in 2019 but Councillor Nigel Christian raised concerns that this development “is very different to the original application.”

He said: “There was a very strong argument in the original application which suggested that what was being proposed would be in-keeping and in-character with the existing development and village of Tarraby.

“This new development, in my opinion does not do that.”

But Mr Daniel said: “The new scheme does pick up on a lot of the features of the previous scheme. Some of the detailing is characteristic of dwellings in the area, materials reflect the village.”

There were no proposals at the end of the debate so chairman David Morton proposed that the officer’s recommendations for approval are accepted.

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