Issue - meetings

To consider the above planning application.

Note: Councillor D Brickhill (Ward Councillor), Councillor M Simon (non-Committee Member) and Mrs A Grinnell (applicant) attended the meeting and addressed the Committee on this matter.

The Committee considered a report regarding the above planning application, an oral report of the site inspection and an oral update by the Southern Area Manager – Development Management.

RESOLVED – That, contrary to the planning officer’s recommendation for refusal, conditions 1 to 3 on approved application no. P08/0616 at land to the rear of 416 Newcastle Road, Shavington, Crewe be varied/removed as follows:

(a) That condition 1 be amended to read: ‘The use hereby permitted shall be discontinued and the land restored to its former condition, including removal of any means of enclosure, on or before 9 June 2013 in accordance with a scheme of work to be submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority.’

(b) That condition 2 be amended to read: ‘The site shall only operate between the hours of 09.30 to 18.00 hours daily Sundays to Thursdays and 09.30 to 19.30 hours on Fridays and Saturdays.’

(c) That condition 3 be removed.

In the opinion of the Committee, the variation of condition 3 to allow the play equipment to be left on site on a permanent basis will not have a detrimental impact on this piece of land and the adjoining land and is not contrary to policies NE.2 (Open Countryside) and RT.6 (Recreational Uses in the Open Countryside) of the Borough of Crewe and Nantwich Replacement Local Plan 2011 and advice contained within PPS 1 Delivering Sustainable Development and PPS 7 Sustainable Development in Rural Areas.