To consider the above planning application.
Minutes:
Note: Councillors M Martin and D Newton left the meeting during consideration of this application.
Note: Councillor J Hammonddeclared that he had been a member of the Save the Holly Bush campaign group in 2003 and that he would leave the room after he had addressed the Committee.
Note: Councillor J Hammond(Ward Councillor), Parish Councillor R Hovey (on behalf of Haslington Parish Council) and Mr R McGinnes(on behalf of the applicant) attended the meeting and addressed the Committee on this matter.
The Committee considered a report regarding the above planning application, a written update and an oral report of the site inspection.
In response to a comment by the representative of Haslington Parish Council, the Senior Lawyer confirmed that the Council’s Planning Protocol of Conduct in Relation to the Determination of Planning Matters stated that Members should try to attend site inspections organised by the Council, and that attendance at site visits was not mandatory. In addition, plans and photographs had been displayed at the meeting, and Members had confirmed that they were familiar with the site.
RESOLVED – That, for the reasons set out in the report, the application be APPROVED subject to the following conditions:
1. Time
2. Time for Reserved Matters
3. Approval of Reserved Matters
4. Approved Plans
5. No principal windows to side facing elevation of plot 3
6. Hours of construction and pile driving activities
7. Noise mitigation scheme
8. Maximum of 3No dwellings
9. No works within the breeding bird season
10. Nesting bird mitigation measures
11. At the reserved matters stage the developer will provide a revised access plan which takes into account the recommended revision of the ‘x’-distance to the visibility splay.
12. Prior to first occupation, the proposed access will be constructed and the revised visibility splays provided – without impediment – in accordance with the revised plan required in Condition 11.
13. Retention of the boundary hedgerow along the northern boundary