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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 (during office hours staff should proceed to their usual assembly point; outside of office hours proceed to the visitors’ car park). 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: 83.1 The evacuation procedure, as noted on the Agenda, was advised to those present. 83.2 Members were reminded that, at its meeting on 17 May 2016, the Council had confirmed the Scheme for Public Speaking at Planning Committee as a permanent arrangement. The Chair 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: 84.1 Apologies for absence were received from Councillor R A Bird. Councillor P W Awford would be acting as a substitute 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: 85.1 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. 85.2 The following declarations were made:
85.3 There were no further declarations made on this occasion. |
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To approve the Minutes of the meeting held on 14 March 2017. Minutes: 86.1 The Minutes of the meeting held on 14 March 2017, copies of which had been circulated, were approved as a correct record and signed by the Chair. |
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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: 87.1 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 Members prior to decisions being made on those applications. 17/00072/FUL – Land Parcels 7946 & 9067, Fiddington, Tewkesbury 87.2 This application was for a biomass-based anaerobic digestion facility including: primary digester with feed processing hoppers; secondary digester; final storage tanks; biomethane upgrading unit; grid entry unit (GEU); propane tanks (LPG); preliminary pit; condensation pits; pump container; biogas boiler; standby flare stack; weighbridge; agricultural feedstock storage (silage clamps); digestate separator; office with associated foul drainage pit; landscape works including bunding and reprofiling using excavated material and planting; rainwater retention ponds, drainage system and newt ponds; underground gas pipe to connect to gas mains with associated grid entry unit; and hard surfacing including alterations to existing vehicular access, internal roads and parking. 87.3 The Chair invited Tony Davies, speaking on behalf of ‘Save Our Lanes’, to address the Committee. Mr Davies expressed the opinion that this was yet another attempt by the applicant to build an industrial estate within open countryside under a green umbrella to take advantage of central government subsidies at the expense of the local community. The applicant had previously stated that the proposal could not be smaller as this would make it unviable and yet here was an application with a proposal for a smaller plant. Notwithstanding the reduction in size, the plant would still harm the local landscape with an activity that was more industrial than agricultural which was unprecedented within the intimate field pattern around Fiddington. The applicant wanted to double the volume of heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) on the quiet lanes and increase them more than threefold during peak times; this would obviously affect the enjoyment and safety of all users of the local highway network, including the many livery stables along the lane. Substantial mitigation would be necessary to accommodate the HGVs, yet there would still be pinch-points where vehicles would not be able to pass one another, for example, at the Swilgate Bridge and the Odessa where it would be more than “a little bit tight” as shown in the tracking theory submitted – in practice it would probably be impossible. Despite the previous refusal, no alternative site had been thoroughly investigated. The refusal reasons for the previous application were well documented and yet the new plant would be located in the same place, would use the same road network and would generate the same noise, odour and light pollution which would have the same harmful impact on the area and on local residents; it should therefore be refused for the same reasons. 87.4 Exercising the Chair’s discretion as regards Members, the Chair invited Councillor Vernon Smith to address the ... view the full minutes text for item 87a |
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Current Appeals and Appeal Decisions Update PDF 111 KB To consider current Planning and Enforcement Appeals and CLG Appeal Decisions. Minutes: 88.1 Attention was drawn to the current appeals and appeal decision update, circulated at Pages No. 35-39. Members were asked to consider the current planning and enforcement appeals received and the Department of Communities and Local Government appeal decisions issued. 88.2 It was RESOLVED That the current appeals and appeal decision update be NOTED. |