Issue - meetings

To consider the above planning application.

Notes:

(1)       Councillor D Brickhill, having called in the application attended the meeting and addressed the Committee on this matter. 

(2)       Mr R Bossons (objectors’ representative) and Mr M Gilbert (applicant’s representative) also attended the meeting and addressed the Committee on this matter.  In accordance with Paragraph 2.8 of the Public Speaking Protocol, Mr Bossons was permitted to speak for 5 minutes with the permission of the Committee, the same courtesy then being extended to Mr Gilbert in the interest of balance.       

(3)       Following a remark made by Mr Bossons in the course of his address, the Committee was invited to verify individually whether they had pre-determined the application prior to attending the meeting.  Each Member present confirmed that this was not the case and that they had come to the table with an open mind.      

The Committee considered a report (together with an oral update on the site visit) in respect of planning application 10/2699N (Land adjacent Limes Farm, Barthomley). 

RESOLVED – That the application be APPROVED subject to the following conditions:

1.         Within 3 months of the date of this permission a schedule of implementation shall be submitted for approval to the Local Planning Authority.  The schedule shall include details of the timeframe and the phasing of the development, finished surface treatment and the additional planting.  Thereafter, the development shall be carried out in accordance with the agreed details

2.         Protection of public footpath

3.         Schedule of approved plans

4.         Hedge to be reinstated along the line of the improved visibility line; to be protected for a 5 year period