Agenda and minutes

Resolved that Councillor Greenhough be appointed Chairman of the Planning Committee for the municipal year 2017/18.

Resolved that Councillor Shaun Turner be appointed Vice-Chairman of the Planning Committee for the municipal year 2017/18.

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

After the Applicant’s daughter had spoken in relation to Item 03 – Erection of one detached dormer bungalow with associated access and landscaping – Land off Ingol Lane, Hambleton, Poulton-Le-Fylde, Lancashire, FY6 9BJ – 17/00246/FULCouncillor Moon declared a significant interest as he realised he had attended the same Secondary High School as the Applicant’s daughter and did in fact know the Applicant, her father. Councillor Moon spoke on the matter but took no part in the decision making and abstained from the vote.

To confirm as a correct record the minutes of the meeting of the Planning Committee held on Wednesday 3 May 2017 (already circulated by email).

The minutes of the Planning Committee meeting held on Wednesday 3 May, 2017 were confirmed as a correct record.

Schedule of Appeals lodged and decided between 15 April 2017 to 15 May 2017

The Head of Planning Services submitted a report on appeals lodged and decided between 15 April 2017 and 15 May 2017.

Resolved

That the position regarding the appeals, as set out on pages 1 – 23 of the report be read and noted and that any Member requiring any further details or clarification on any Appeal, should contact the relevant Case Officer.

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.            Joint Lancashire Minerals and Waste Local Plan

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

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

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

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

9.            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

(a)          Schedule of applications to be considered

(b)          Reports of the Head of Planning Services:-

Ø  Item 01, Outline application for the erection of up to 108 no. dwellings (Use Class C3) with all matters reserved except for access, which will be off Brockholes Crescent following demolition of numbers 61 & 63 Brockholes Crescent – Land Off Brockholes Crescent, Poulton-Le-Fylde, Lancashire – 16/00742/OUTMAJ

Ø  Item 02, Variation of condition 2 on application 14/00928/FULMAJ to allow for the full demolition of existing building and the erection of a three storey and part two storey apartment block (12 apartments) including associated access/parking provision and a cycle store – Royal Oak, 64 Breck Road, Poulton-Le-Fylde, Lancashire, FY6 7AQ – 17/00070/FULMAJ

Ø  Item 03, Erection of one detached dormer bungalow with associated access and landscaping – Land Off Ingol Lane, Hambleton, Poulton-Le-Fylde, Lancashire, FY6 9BJ – 17/00246/FUL

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

The Head of Planning Services also submitted ‘update sheets’ on Items 01, 02 and 03 of the agenda, referring to additional information to the reports since the agenda had been published.

Ø    16/00742/OUTMAJ – Land off Brockholes Crescent, Poulton-Le-Fylde, Lancashire

Ø     17/00070/FULMAJ – Royal Oak, 64 Breck Road, Poulton-Le-Fylde, Lancashire, FY6 7AQ

Ø    17/00246/FUL – Land off Ingol Lane, Hambleton, Poulton-Le-Fylde, Lancashire, FY6 9BJ

RESOLVEDthat the undermentioned applications be APPROVED under the provisions of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, as set out below:

16/00742/OUTMAJ

The Strategic Land Group Ltd.  Outline application for the erection of up to 108 no. dwellings (Use Class C3) with all matters reserved except for access, which will be off Brockholes Crescent following demolition of numbers 61 & 63 Brockholes Crescent, Land Off Brockholes Crescent, Poulton-Le-Fylde, Lancashire.

The application was before members for determination at the request of Councillors Berry, B Birch and Bridge. 

A site visit was carried out to help Members understand the proposed development and how it would sit within its surroundings.

One Ward Councillor spoke to the committee.  Another Ward Councillor for Hardhorn with Highcross Ward and the County Councillor for Poulton-Le-Fylde sent in letters to be read out by the Chairman of the committee, objecting to the application.

The Applicant spoke to the committee in support of their application.

The application was approved as per the recommendation of the Head of Planning Services that the outline application be approved subject to conditions and a S106 legal agreement to secure appropriate financial contributions towards local education and sustainable travel and highway improvement works. The Head of Planning Services was authorised to issue the decision on the satisfactory completion of the S106 agreement.

Conditions

1.a)      In the case of any reserved matter, namely appearance, landscaping, layout and scale of the buildings, application for approval must be made not later than the expiration of three years beginning with the date of the grant of outline planning permission;

(b)        the development to which the permission relates must be begun not later than the expiration of two years from the final approval of the reserved matters or, in the case of approval on different dates, the final approval of the last matter to be approved.

2.          The development shall be carried out, except where modified by the conditions to this permission, in accordance with the Planning Application received by the Local Planning Authority on 19th August 2016 including the following plans: -

·                       16/040/L01 - Location Plan

·                       0520-F03A - Potential Access Arrangement off Brockholes Crescent.

3.          Prior to commencement of development hereby approved, a scheme for the provision and retention of affordable housing as part of the development shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The affordable housing shall be provided and thereafter retained in accordance with the approved scheme and shall meet the definition of affordable housing in Annex 2 of the National Planning Policy Framework or any future guidance that replaces it. The scheme shall include:

a)          the numbers, type, tenure and location on the site of the affordable housing provision to be made which shall consist of not less than 30% of housing units/bed spaces;

b)          the timing of the construction of the affordable housing and its phasing in relation to the occupancy of the market housing;

c)          the arrangements for the transfer of the affordable housing  ...  view the full minutes text for item PA.7