Meeting documents

To confirm the Minutes of the meeting of the Planning Committee held on 18 October 2017 (attached).

RESOLVED: That the minutes of the Planning Committee meeting held on 18 October 2017 be approved as a true record and signed by the Chairman.

There were no declarations of interest.

RESOLVED: that the reports be received and the recommendations contained in the reports, as amended by the update sheet where appropriate, be adopted, subject to any deletions, updates or alterations set out in the minutes below.

The Committee voted in favour of the motion that they were minded to grant permission subject to an amendment to condition 12 requiring retention of balcony screening and the completion of a Planning Obligation or other agreement and that the Head of Planning and Sustainability be given delegated authority to grant Conditional permission provided that a Planning Obligation was made to secure the following matters:

a)    Financial contribution towards the provision of off-site Affordable Housing.

or to refuse planning permission if an Obligation could not be secured.

RESOLVED: that the application be granted subject to completion of a Planning Obligation or other agreement. 

The Committee was addressed by Councillor Lee, the local Ward Member.

The Committee was addressed by Mr Alex Lidgate in objection and Mr Peter Tanner, the applicant.

The Committee voted in favour of the motion to approve the application subject to the amendments as laid out in the Update Sheet in relation to the screening and that an additional Condition be added to ensure that a plan was submitted in relation to the levels of landscaping of the rear garden.

RESOLVED: that the application be approved subject to the amendments as stated above.

The Committee was addressed by Councillors Mrs L Clarke, OBE and M Hussain, the local Ward Members.

The Committee was addressed by Mr Martin Ball in objection and Mr Shoaib Kayani on behalf of the applicant.

Please note this item has been deferred to a later meeting.

This item was deferred prior to the meeting. No debate took place.

The Committee was informed that Bloor Homes, who were due to make a presentation at the next Information Session had withdrawn their request so therefore, as it stood, there would be no Information Session held. However, the Chairman explained that Members would be informed should a presentation be arranged and that failing that, he proposed that the 13 December Committee meeting commenced at 6.30pm.

A request was made for a presentation on Enforcement. It was agreed that this would be too much information to get into the forty minutes allotted for a Training Session but that some training would be arranged in due course.

To appoint Members to undertake site visits on Tuesday 12 December 2017 should the need arise.

RESOLVED: That in the event that it was necessary to arrange site visits on Tuesday 12 December 2017 in respect of the agenda for the meeting on Wednesday 13 December 2017, the following Members be invited to attend with the relevant local Members:

Councillors: Mrs J A Adey, Ms A Baughan, S Graham, D A Johncock, T Lee, N B Marshall, H L McCarthy, Mrs C Oliver, N J B Teesdale, A Turner and P R Turner.

The Committee noted the Delegated Actions undertaken by the Planning Enforcement Team.

The Committee also discussed ways of developing a simplified and more straight-forward system to record the Action noted on the Delegated Action Sheets and noted this work was currently being undertaken.

The Committee was informed that should any Member wish to look at a Delegated Action Sheet, the folder was available to view in Democratic Services.

Submission of the file of actions taken under delegated powers since the previous meeting.

The file on actions taken under delegated authority since the previous meeting was circulated for the Committee’s attention.