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 18/6313N, Councillor P Butterill declared that she had known the applicants for a long time and had made up her mind with respect to the application.  She would exercise her separate speaking rights as a Ward Councillor, leave the room and not take part in the debate or vote.

With regard to application number 18/6313N, Councillor A Gage declared that he believed that the applicants owned a nearby evening entertainment establishment (the Cheshire Cat), which he had frequented on occasion.  He had no personal relationship with the applicants and had not been approached by anyone about the application.

To approve the minutes of the meeting held on 30 October 2019.

RESOLVED – That the minutes of the meeting held on 30 October 2019 be approved as a correct record and signed by the Chairman.

To consider the above planning application.

Note: Councillors A Moran and P Butterill (Ward Councillors) 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.

RESOLVED

(a)   That, for the reasons set out in the report and the written update, authority be DELEGATED to the Head of Planning to APPROVE the application, following consultation with the Chairman of Southern Planning Committee, subject to:

• the submission and consideration of a Water Vole Survey and any necessary mitigation in consultation with the Council’s Ecologist.

·         the satisfactory completion of a Section 111 Agreement with a Draft S106 Agreement attached to secure:

Overage provision to capture any uplift in value with any additional sums paid to the Council to invest back into education and health provision within the borough

·         the following conditions:

1          Time limit

2          Approved plans

3          Materials

4          Compliance with the submitted Flood Risk Assessment, to include reference to the finished floor levels and existing and proposed levels across the site

5          Submission of a drainage strategy

6          Compliance with the noise report

7          Travel information pack

8          Low emission boilers

9          Electric vehicle charging points

10        Contaminated land X 3

11        Programme of archaeological work

12        Foul and surface water

13        Surface water drainage scheme

14        Piling

15        Obscure glazing to x2 living/kitchen/dining room windows on the western elevation

16        No removal of any vegetation or the demolition between 1st March and 31st August

17        Features for breeding birds

18        Safeguarding of nesting birds

19        Submission of provision of features for nesting birds

20        Submission of bat ‘friendly’ lighting scheme

21        Submission of measures for safeguarding of the adjacent water course from pollution during construction

22        Measures to minimise the risk of hedgehogs being injured during the construction phase

23        Method statement for the control of Himalayan Balsam

24        Open hours – 7 days/week

Shops 9am – 5pm

Restaurants 12.00 noon – 11pm

Café’s 8am – 6pm

25        Detail of gabion and railings

26        Landscaping both hard and soft including, detailed riverbank planting proposals, details of the green wall system along with its planning design and future maintenance arrangements, shrub planting around the base of the car park walls, species, sizes and locations for proposed trees including tree pit preparation in hard and soft areas, riverside retaining walls, paving materials and colours, railing types/locations, proposed tree grilles, seating opportunities and lighting locations

27        Details of cycle storage areas, to include cycle parking details for residents and visitors

28        Specification and manufacturers details of the proposed external lighting

29        A revised landscape/public realm design proposals plan to clearly show the location/extent of all features and include a key

30 Scheme of delivery times to the approved commercial uses to be submitted and agreed

31 Refuse storage to be submitted and approved

Informatives

1             Para 38 of the NPPF

2             Wyche House Bank stopping up order on the public highway

3             Cadent gas informative

4             Land drainage  ...  view the full minutes text for item 37.

To consider the above planning application.

The Chairman reported that this application had been withdrawn prior to the meeting.

To consider the above planning application.

The Chairman reported that this application had been withdrawn prior to the meeting.

To consider the above planning application.

The Chairman reported that this application had been withdrawn prior to the meeting.

To consider the above planning application.

Note: Councillor S Hogben (Ward Councillor) and Mr G Erskine (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 and a written update.

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 limit

2          Approved plans

3          Provision of cycle parking

4          Provision of bin storage

5          Low emission boilers

(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 Head of Planning, in 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.