A proposal to build eight homes in Seaton, which had planners at a deadlock earlier this month, will be debated at a council meeting next week.
Allerdale Borough Council’s development panel will meet in Workington on Tuesday, September 6, from 10am.
A bid to build eight homes on land off Beech Grove by Thwaytes, Thwaytes, Rutherford & Warren was discussed by members earlier this month.
Motions to approve the application and reject it were both proposed but defeated at the meeting, with a proposal to defer it breaking the deadlock.
Officers are recommending that councillors approve the application when it is considered again next week but the panel will seek answers to questions and concerns raised around flooding.
Plans are being considered in outline meaning that councillors will be asked to decide whether the development is acceptable in principle with a second, more detailed version of the application considered at a later date.
Aileen Brown, of Seaton Parish Council, spoke in objection at the last meeting, raising concerns about the potential for existing flooding issues to become worse.
She said that properties are already becoming cut-off during heavy rainfall including the homes of vulnerable disabled people.
She said: “This is only going to get worse when we lose the field to 100 houses when there’s no soakaway anywhere.”
However, in support of their recommendation to approve the application, officers argued at the last meeting that the development would include significant civil engineering, enforced as a condition, to actually improve the existing flooding issues.
Planning panel chairman Tony Annison, who unsuccessfully proposed that the development is approved said: “There’s clearly been extensive hard work done and there was a comment made that if it was left as it was, there’s a greater risk than if this heavy engineering took place.”
The planning panel will meet to discuss the application at Allerdale House next week.
