Agenda and minutes

To receive apologies for absence.

Apologies were received from Councillors J Bratherton and L Buchanan.  Councillors J Rhodes and H Seddon attended as substitutes.

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

No declarations of interest were made.

To approve the minutes of the meeting held on 2 April 2025.

RESOLVED:

That the minutes of the meeting held on 2 April 2025 be approved as a correct record.

A total period of 5 minutes is allocated for each of the planning applications for the following:

·                Ward Councillors who are not members of the Planning Committee

·                The relevant Town/Parish Council

A total period of 3 minutes is allocated for each of the planning applications for the following:

·                Members who are not members of the planning committee and are not the Ward Member

·                Objectors

·                Supporters

·                Applicants

The public speaking time procedure was noted.

To consider the above planning application.

This item was withdrawn prior to the meeting.

To consider the above planning application.

Consideration was given to the planning application.

The following attended the meeting and spoke in relation to the application:

Councillor Linda Buchanan (ward councillor), Mr William Atteridge (objector), Mr Bill Cooper (supporter) and Mr Russell Adams (agent).

RESOLVED:

That for the reasons set out in the report the application be APPROVED, subject to following conditions:

1               Approved Plans

2               Compliance with the Great Crested Newt Reasonable Avoidance Measures

3               Landscaping to be submitted

4               Landscaping to be implemented

5               Burial plots shall not occur within RPA’s of retained trees on the site

6               No more than two burials a day (coffin and urn burials) and no burials to take place on a Sunday

7               Parking spaces to be provided prior to the first use of the coffin burials area

8               Prior to commencement of the land levelling works a Construction Management Plan should be submitted and approved which provides details of HGV movements, HGV routing and vehicle type, and wheel washing facilities

9               Compliance with the submitted drainage strategy

10           SUDS management and maintenance strategy

11           Details of the importance of soil

12           Protection measures for UU infrastructure

13           No burials with the UU easement

14           Compliance with the submitted Management Plan

15           Restriction on the number of coffin burials of 25 per annum and No coffin burials to take place until the 3 stages of land level raising have taken place

16           The submission of the groundwater monitoring scheme

17           The results of the groundwater monitoring to be submitted together with any necessary mitigation as a result of the monitoring.

In order to give proper effect to the Committee’s intentions and without changing the substance of the decision, authority is delegated to the Head of Planning, in consultation with the Chair (or in their absence the Vice Chair) of Southern Planning Committee, to correct any technical slip or omission in the wording of the resolution, between approval of the minutes and the issue of the decision notice.