Agenda and minutes

To provide an opportunity for Members and Officers to declare any disclosable pecuniary and non-pecuniary interests and for Members to declare if they have pre-determined any item on the agenda.

The following declarations were made in the interests of openness:

With regard to application number 19/5261N, Councillor J Wray declared that the applicant was known to him.  He would vacate the Chair in favour of the Vice-Chairman, leave the room and not take part in the debate or vote.

With regard to application number 19/5261N, Councillor P Butterill declared that she had made up her mind with respect to the application.  She would exercise her separate speaking rights as a Neighbouring Ward Councillor, leave the room and not take part in the debate or vote.

To approve the minutes of the meeting held on 5 February 2020.

RESOLVED – That the minutes of the meeting held on 5 February 2020 be approved as a correct record and signed by the Chairman.

To consider the above planning application.

Note: Councillor P Williams (Ward Councillor) and Town Councillor S Helliwell (on behalf of Alsager Town Council) attended the meeting and addressed the Committee on this matter.

Note: Ms S Freeman (objector)had registered her intention to address the Committee but was not in attendance at the meeting.

The Committee considered a report regarding the above planning application.

RESOLVED – That the application be DEFERRED for consultation with Ansa concerning bin collection arrangements.

To consider the above planning application.

Note: Having made a declaration, Councillor J Wray vacated the Chair in favour of the Vice-Chairman.

Note: Councillor R Bailey (Ward Councillor), Mr C Odams (objector) and Mr P Brown (on behalf of the applicant) attended the meeting and addressed the Committee on this matter.

Note: Having exercised her separate speaking rights as a Neighbouring Ward Councillor, Councillor P Butterill withdrew from the meeting for the duration of the Committee’s consideration of this item.

The Committee considered a report regarding the above planning application, a written update and an oral report of the site inspection.

RESOLVED

(a) That, for the reasons set out in the report and the written update, the application be APPROVED subject to the following conditions:

1. Time (3 years)
2. Plans
3. Materials for utility blocks
4. Boundary treatment
5. Landscaping (hard/soft) scheme (including habitat creation)
6. Landscaping implementation
7. Great Crested Newts reasonable avoidance measures

8.    No commercial activities shall take place on the land, including the storage of materials and no vehicle over 3.5 tonnes shall be stationed, parked or stored at the site.

9. Remove PD rights for boundary treatment
10. Land contamination
11. Verification report
12. Importation of soil
13. Unidentified land contamination

14.The site shall not be occupied by any persons other than gypsies and travellers as defined in Annex 1 of the Planning Policy for Traveller Sites (PPTS).

15.There shall be no more than 6 pitches on the site and the units shall be in accordance with the definition of a caravan as defined in the Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 and the Caravan Site Act 1968 of which no more than 1 unit shall be a static caravan per pitch at any one time.

(b) That, in order to give proper effect to the Committee’s intentions and without changing the substance of the decision, authority be delegated to the Acting Head of Planning, following consultation with the Chairman (or in his absence the Vice Chairman) of Southern Planning Committee, to correct any technical slip or omission in the wording of the resolution, before issue of the decision notice.