Meeting documents

Apologies were received from Ms A Cranmer.

To disclose any Personal, Disclosable or Prejudicial Pecuniary Interests.

There were no declarations of interest.

The minutes of the meeting of the Committee held on Monday 25 February 2019, to be confirmed as a correct record.

RESOLVED:  The minutes of the meeting held on 25 February 2019 were AGREED as an accurate record and were signed by the Chairman.

Monday 20 May 2019 at 10.00 am in Mezz 1 and 2, County Hall.

Monday 20 May 2019 at 10.00 am in Mezzanine rooms 1 and 2, County Hall, Aylesbury.  Mr D Shakespeare sent his apologies for the next meeting.

Ms C Kelham, Planning Officer, provided a presentation and highlighted the following points:

• Since publication of the report comments had been received from Buckinghamshire County Council (BCC) Highways.
• BCC Highways had considered the proposed changes and commented that the proposed change in operating hours would not have a material effect on the AM or PM peak hours and the proposed amount of working hours were not changing. BCC Highways were satisfied that the proposed variation of condition would not result in a material impact on the local highway network and that the Highway Authority had no objection to the proposed variation of condition.
• Ms Kelham pointed out a typographical error in the report in paragraph 23.  The penultimate sentence, should read "As this location is closer than the houses on Wendover Road she considers it confirms that at both locations the noise level as a result of operations on the application site (excluding the concrete crusher) are acceptable between 7 am to 8 am Monday to Friday."
• The application site was a permitted waste transfer and processing site.
• Ms Kelham reminded the Committee that, less than a year ago, planning permission was granted for changes to the operation at the site and also the neighbouring piece of land for use of that land for storage of empty skips and skip lorries.  
• The patch of land was an area of approx. 1.2 hectares and was shown on the map.
• Although, as part the application last year, permission was sought to extend the hours of operation from 08.00-18.00 Monday-Friday and 08.00-13.00 Saturday to 06.30-18.30 Monday-Saturday, the impact of this was considered unacceptable due to a lack of information on the amenity impact in the early morning. On this basis the planning permission granted did not allow the change of hours and instead included a condition to maintain the hours of operation proposed to change in this application. 
• In summary, instead of operating between 08:00 and 18:00, Enterprise Skip Hire wished to operate between 07:00 and 17:00. The running of the screener and crusher were not included in the proposed variation and the applicant intended for these to operate after 08:00 as was currently permitted. The Saturday hours of operation were not proposed to change and would continue to be between 08:00 and 13:00.
• Photographs were shown of the site plan, the shed with the picking station, the bays, the application site, the main yard area and the entrance to the site.
• The distance from the main area of the site to the properties on Wendover Road was approximately 245 metres.
• The distance from the skip storage area to Unit 1, Triangle Business Park was approximately 60 metres.
• A noise assessment had been submitted to accompany the planning application, and following consideration of the document, the District Environmental Health Officer had advised that the proposed operations at the application site (i.e. vehicles leaving and not use of the concrete crusher) would not have an acoustic impact on the amenity at the closest residential  ...  view the full minutes text for item 5.

RESOLVED

That the press and public be excluded for the following item which is exempt by virtue of Paragraph 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 12a of the Local Government Act 1972 because it contains information relating to an individual.