Agenda and minutes

Members will disclose any pecuniary and any other significant interests they may have in relation to the matters under consideration.

None.

To confirm as a correct record the minutes of the meeting of the Planning Committee held on Wednesday 7 November 2018 (already circulated by email).

The minutes of the Planning Committee meeting held on Wednesday 7 November, 2018 were confirmed as a correct record.

Schedule of Appeals lodged and decided between 15 October 2018 – 15 November 2018, attached.

The The Head of Planning Services submitted a report on appeals lodged and decided between 15 October 2018 – 15 November 2018.

Resolved

That the position regarding the appeals, as set out on pages 11 – 14 of the report be read and noted, and that any Member requiring any further details of clarification on any appeal, should contact the relevant Case Officer.

Head of Planning Services submitted a report on appeals lodged and decided between 15 October 2018 – 15 November 2018.

Background Papers:

In preparing the following reports on this agenda the following documents have been used:

1.            The Wyre Borough Local Plan (1999)

2.            Wyre Borough Core Strategy Preferred Options document (March 2012)

3.            Wyre Local Plan Issues and Options (June 2015)

4.            Submission draft – emerging Wyre Borough Local Plan 2011-2031

5.            Joint Lancashire Minerals and Waste Local Plan

6.            Statements of Government Policy/advice (NPPF, NPPG, Circulars etc.)

7.            Supplementary Planning Documents and evidence base documents specifically referred to in the reports

8.            The application file (as per the number at the head of each report)

9.            The forms, plans, committee reports and decisions as appropriate for the historic applications specifically referred to in the reports

10.         Any additional information specifically referred to in each report.

These Background Documents are available either on line, or for inspection by request at Planning Services, Civic Centre, Breck Road, Poulton-le-Fylde, FY6 7PU

Reports of the Head of Planning Services on planning applications to be determined at this meeting:-

Item 1, Application No: 18/00643/OUTMAJ –

29 – 31 Coronation Road, Thornton Cleveleys, Lancashire, FY5 1DQ

Outline application for the erection of a 48 bedroom nursing home (Use Class C2) (following the demolition of existing dwellings) with access, layout and scale applied for (all other matters reserved).

The Head of Planning Services submitted applications and reports to be considered:-

18/00643/OUTMAJ – 29 – 31 Coronation Road, Thornton Cleveleys, Lancashire, FY5 1DQ. Outline application for the erection of a 48 bedroom nursing home (Use Class C2) (following the demolition of existing dwellings) with access, layout and scale applied for (all other matters reserved).

An Update sheet with additional information was issued over the internet and also handed out at the planning meeting. This information came forth, since the Agenda was published, for this application.

Reports of the Head of Planning Services on planning applications to be determined at this meeting

a)     Application Refused

RESOLVED that the undermentioned application be REFUSED under the provisions of the Town and County Planning Act 1990, as set out below:

Item 1 – 29 – 31 Coronation Road, Thornton Cleveleys, Lancashire, FY5 1DQ

Application Number 18/00643/OUTMAJ

Movern Care Centre.  Outline application for the erection of a 48 bedroom nursing home (Use Class C2) (following the demolition of existing dwellings) with access, layout and scale applied for (all other matters reserved).

The application was before Members at the request of Councillor Fail. A site visit took place, so Committee Members had the benefit of seeing and understanding the proposal and its setting beyond the plans submitted, and the photographs taken by the case officer.

A Member of the Public and a Jubilee Ward Councillor, spoke to the Committee, as objectors to the application.

The Committee gave consideration to the Update Sheet with additional information on, which had been circulated to members of the Committee before the meeting.

The Committee members debated the application generally, including the impact that the proposed development would have on the streetscene and residential amenity within the area.

Resolved that the application be REFUSED contrary to the Officers recommendation, for the following reason:-

The scale and massing of the development in relation to the neighbouring built form would be out of keeping with the street scene character in this part of Coronation Road and in the wider area, resulting in an unacceptable impact on visual amenity, and would also fail to provide the minimum 21 metre interface distance resulting in an unacceptable impact on the amenity of the occupiers of properties facing the development caused by overlooking. As such the proposed development will conflict with the provisions of saved policy SP14 of the Wyre Borough Local Plan, the provisions of the council’s Supplementary Planning Guidance 4 ‘Spacing Guidance for New Housing Layouts’, and draft policy CDMP3 of the Emerging Wyre Borough Local Plan which seeks high standards of design and amenity for all types of development and with the National Planning Policy Framework.