Agenda and minutes

Strategic Planning Board - Friday, 24th July, 2009 3.00 pm

Venue: The Capesthorne Room - Town Hall, Macclesfield, SK10 1EA. View directions

Contact: Rachel Graves  Email: rachel.graves@cheshireeast.gov.uk

Items
No. Item

72.

Apologies for Absence

Minutes:

Apologies for absence were received from Councillors A Arnold, D Brown, P Edwards, M A Hollins, D Hough, J Macrae, B Moran and C G Thorley.

73.

Declarations of Interest

To provide an opportunity for Members and Officers to declare any personal and/or prejudicial interests and for Members to declare if they have made a pre-determination in respect of any item on the agenda.

Minutes:

No Member made any declaration of interest in any item of business on the agenda.

74.

Public Speaking

A total period of 5 minutes is allocated from the planning application for Ward Councillors who are not members of the Strategic Planning Board.

 

A period of 3 minutes is allocated for the planning application for the following individuals/groups:

  • Members who are not members of the Strategic Planning Board and are not the Ward Member
  • The relevant Town/Parish Council
  • Local Representative Group/Civic Society
  • Objectors
  • Applicants/Supporters

Minutes:

A total period of 5 minutes was allocated for the following planning application for Ward Councillors who were not Members of the Strategic Planning Board.

 

A period of 3 minutes was allocated for the planning application for the following individual/groups:

 

·                    Members who were not Members of the Strategic Planning Board and were not the Ward Councillor

·                    The relevant Town/Parish Council

·                    Local representative Group/Civic Society

·                    Objectors

·                    Applicants/supporters

 

RESOLVED

 

That the procedure for public speaking be noted.

 

 

 

 

75.

Reference up of a Decision of the Southern Planning Committee to the Strategic Planning Board pdf icon PDF 160 KB

To reconsider the decision of the Planning Committee (South) relating to planning application 09/1515N - the Installation of a Radio Base Station Consisting of a 10m Replica Telegraph Pole, Cannon Type D and G Cabinets and Development Ancillary Thereto, Land at the junction of Valley Road, Readesdale Avenue, Crewe, Cheshire for O2 UK Ltd.

Minutes:

(Note: The Ward Councillors M J Weatherill and R W Parker, who were two of the eight signatories to the Notice under Council Procedure Rule 36.1, were in attendance and spoke against the application.  Councillors W T Beard and S Jones, who were two of the eight signatories to the Notice under Council Procedure Rule 36.1, were in attendance and spoke against the application as visiting Councillors. Two members of the public (Mr E Jones and Mr J Massey) attended the meeting and spoke against the application.) 

 

At its meeting held on 15th July 2009, the Southern Planning Committee had approved Planning Application 09/1515N – the Installation of a Radio Base Station Consisting of a 10 metre Replica Telegraph Pole, Cannon Type D and G Cabinets and Development Ancillary thereto, land at the Junction of Valley Road, Readesdale Avenue, Crewe for O2. The application had been approved subject to planning conditions.

 

In accordance with Council Procedure Rule 36.1, any eight Members could refer to a parent committee for reconsideration, a decision made by a Committee. The requirements of Rule 36.1 had been met and the decision of the Southern Planning Committee was now referred to the Board for reconsideration.

 

The Chairman had agreed that the item should be considered as an item of urgent business (Council Procedure Rule 37.2), pursuant to S100B(4)(b) of The Local Government Act 1972 due to special circumstances in that a delay of its consideration to the next meeting would result in the application being subject to deemed consent under the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995.

 

The Board considered the report of the Borough Solicitor to which was appended the planning report submitted to the Southern Planning Committee.   The Board took into account representations made by the non-Members of the Board.

 

RESOLVED: 

 

That the decision of the Southern Planning Committee be reaffirmed, namely –

 

That PRIOR APPROVAL is required, but the details be APPROVED subject to the following conditions:

 

1                    Standard – 3 years

2                    Monopole and antenna to be brown in colour, equipment cabinet to be green

3                    Development to be completed in accordance with the approved plans.