Agenda, decisions and minutes
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Announcements When the continuous alarm sounds you must evacuate the building by the nearest available fire exit. Members and visitors should proceed to the visitors’ car park at the front of the building and await further instructions (staff should proceed to their usual assembly point). Please do not re-enter the building unless instructed to do so.
In the event of a fire any person with a disability should be assisted in leaving the building. Minutes: 64.1 The evacuation procedure, as noted on the Agenda, was advised to those present. 64.2 Members were reminded that the Council had resolved to introduce a Scheme of Public Speaking at Planning Committee for a 12 month period, starting with the new term of the Council in May 2015, which had therefore commenced with the meeting on 9 June 2015. The Chairman gave a brief outline of the scheme and the procedure for Planning Committee meetings. |
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Apologies for Absence and Substitutions To receive apologies for absence and advise of any substitutions. Minutes: 65.1 Apologies for absence were received from Councillor P N Workman. There were no substitutions for the meeting. |
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Declarations of Interest Pursuant to the adoption by the Council on 26 June 2012 of the Tewkesbury Borough Council Code of Conduct, effective from 1 July 2012, as set out in Minute No. CL.34, Members are invited to declare any interest they may have in the business set out on the Agenda to which the approved Code applies. Minutes: 66.1 The Committee’s attention was drawn to the Tewkesbury Borough Council Code of Conduct which was adopted by the Council on 26 June 2012 and took effect from 1 July 2012. 66.2 The following declarations were made:
66.3 There were no further declarations on this occasion, however, it was noted that the applicant for Item 7 – 15/01234/FUL – Brawn Farm, Rodway Lane, Sandhurst was a fellow Borough Councillor. |
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To approve the Minutes of the meeting held on 19 January 2016. |
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Development Control - Applications to the Borough Council |
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To consider the accompanying Schedule of Planning Applications and proposals, marked Appendix “A”. Decision:
Minutes: 68.1 The Development Manager submitted a Schedule comprising planning applications and proposals with recommendations thereon. Copies of this had been circulated to Members as Appendix A to the Agenda for the meeting. The objections to, support for, and observations upon the various applications as referred to in Appendix 1 attached to these Minutes were presented to the Committee and duly taken into consideration by them prior to decisions being made on those applications. 15/01126/FUL – Part Parcel 8227, Tewkesbury Road, Elmstone Hardwicke 68.2 This application was for the erection of two buildings for industrial/factory development (use classes B1(c), B2 and B8) with ancillary offices (use class B1(a)) together with associated access road, landscaping, drainage ponds, car and cycle parking, service yards and access to Tewkesbury Road (A4019). The Committee had visited the application site on Friday 12 February 2016. 68.3 The Planning Officer explained that a number of additional comments had been received since the publication of the Officer’s report which were included on the Additional Representations Sheet, attached at Appendix 1. Stoke Orchard and Tredington Parish Council had objected to the application on a number of grounds but mainly in relation to highway safety, the isolated nature of the site and the fact that the site was not well served by the motorway due to the restricted access at the nearby motorway junction. Boddington Parish Council had made additional representations objecting to the application for a range of reasons including highway grounds; the unsustainable location of the site; concerns regarding drainage; and lack of supporting facilities including internet connection and mobile phone reception. It was noted that Leigh Parish Council had raised similar concerns. A total of 70 additional letters of support and 59 additional letters of objection had been received and summaries of the comments made were set out with the Additional Representations Sheet. A letter had been received from the occupants of the adjoining Public House who had expressed concern regarding the boundary treatment, in terms of landscaping and signage, and had raised other issues which they felt would need to be considered should planning permission be granted. It was noted that a letter of support had also been received from the applicant. A copy of a letter received from Gloucestershire First Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) was attached to the Additional Representations Sheet; Members were reminded that the LEP generally supported applications which delivered economic growth in accordance with the requirement of the Strategic Economic Plan to provide sustainable sites for employment. The applicant’s agent had submitted a letter which provided additional comments from the applicant’s landscape consultant who considered that planting and landscaping of the development would reduce the urbanising effects and set out that the applicant would be willing to accept a condition requiring an appropriate landscaping scheme. The Council’s landscape consultant had concluded that, if a condition was secured, the landscaping could be effective in screening daytime views across the car park to the facades from the A4019, however, due to the scale and ... view the full minutes text for item 68a |
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Current Appeals and Appeal Decisions Update To consider current Planning and Enforcement Appeals and CLG Appeal Decisions. Minutes: 69.1 Attention was drawn to the current appeals and appeal decisions update, circulated at Pages No. 22-27. Members were asked to consider the current planning and enforcement appeals received and the Communities and Local Government (CLG) appeal decisions issued. 69.2 With regard to the dismissed appeal Ref: 14/01286 Land Opposite the Orchard and Lamorna, Dixton Road, Alstone, Tewkesbury, in relation to three proposed dwellings with garages, access, drives/turning and parking spaces, a Member noted that the Inspector had disagreed with the Officer’s view that the application site was isolated. In response, the Development Manager advised that Officers had looked at the issue of isolation ‘in the round’ whereas the Inspector had taken a more literal view of its meaning within the National Planning Policy Framework. In terms of the reasons why Officers felt that it was isolated, the Inspector had agreed that it was not a suitable location for more housing. 69.3 It was RESOLVED That the current appeals and appeal decisions update be NOTED. |
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Advanced Site Visits Briefing To note those applications which have been identified as being subject to a Committee Site Visit on the Friday prior to the Planning Committee meeting at which they will be considered. Minutes: 70.1 Attention was drawn to the Advanced Site Visits Briefing, circulated at Pages No. 28-29, which set out those applications that had been identified as ones which would be subject to a Committee Site Visit on the Friday prior to the Planning Committee meeting at which they would be considered. Members were asked to note the applications in the briefing. 70.2 It was RESOLVED That the Advanced Site Visits Briefing be NOTED. |