Agenda and minutes

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

Councillor Jones declared an Other Significant Interest in Planning application 01 – 17/00126/OUTMAJ – Outline application for the erection of 15 apartments for persons aged 55 and over together with retail unit and car parking (re-submission 16/00407/OUTMAJ) – Fleetwood Pier, The Esplanade, Fleetwood, Lancashire - as she has an association with a person affected by the decision made on this item such that may give rise to a perception of a conflict of interest and left the room before the item was being discussed and had no involvement in the decision making.

Councillor Ballard declared an Other Significant Interest in Planning application 01 – 17/00126/OUTMAJ – Outline application for the erection of 15 apartments for persons aged 55 and over together with retail unit and car parking (re-submission 16/00407/OUTMAJ) – Fleetwood Pier, The Esplanade, Fleetwood, Lancashire - as he had considerable implications with the applicant and that could be perceived as a conflict of interest and left the room before the item was being discussed and had no involvement in the decision making.

Councillor Orme declared an “Other Significant Interest”   on Item 02 – Part retrospective application for the erection of a detached dwelling – Rear of Former Saracens Head Hotel, 200 Park Lane, Preesall, Poulton-Le-Fylde, Lancashire, FY6 0NW- 17/00472/FUL in that he is a Councillor of Preesall Town Council where he had not taken part in deliberations on this application and he knows the applicant and the neighbours. He did not consider that this gave rise to a perception of a conflict of interest and/or was likely to prejudice his judgement, nor did it amount to an issue of pre-determination and bias and therefore he stayed in the meeting and spoke and voted upon the item.

Councillor Shewan declared an “Other Significant Interest” on Item 01 – 17/00126/OUTMAJ – Outline application for the erection of 15 apartments for persons aged 55 and over together with retail unit and car parking (re-submission 16/00407/OUTMAJ) – Fleetwood Pier, The Esplanade, Fleetwood, Lancashire – as he is a County Councillor and the Ward Councillor for the Pharos Ward. Councillor Shewan said that this would not prejudice his judgement, and therefore he stayed in the meeting and spoke and voted upon the item.

To confirm as a correct record the minutes of the meeting of the Planning Committee held on Wednesday 7 June 2017 (already circulated by email).

The minutes of the Planning Committee meeting held on Wednesday 7 June, 2017 were confirmed as a correct record.

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

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

Resolved

That the position regarding the appeals, as set out on pages 1 – 8 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 15 apartments for persons aged 55 and over together with retail unit and car parking (re-submission 16/00407/OUTMAJ) – Fleetwood Pier, The Esplanade, Fleetwood, Lancashire – 17/00126/OUTMAJ

Ø   Item 02, Part retrospective application for the erection of a detached dwelling – Rear of Former Saracens Head Hotel, 200 Park Lane, Preesall, Poulton-Le-Fylde, Lancashire, FY6 0NW – 17/00472/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 and 02 of the agenda, referring to additional information to the reports since the agenda had been published.

Ø    17/00126/OUTMAJ – Fleetwood Pier, The Esplanade, Fleetwood, Lancashire

Ø     17/00472/FUL – Rear of Former Saracens Head Hotel, 200 Park Lane, Preesall, Poulton-Le-Fylde, Lancashire, FY6 0NW

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

17/00126/OUTMAJ

Simmo Developments Ltd.  Outline application for the erection of 15 apartments for persons aged 55 and over together with retail unit and car parking (re-submission 16/00407/OUTMAJ).  Fleetwood Pier, The Esplanade, Fleetwood, Lancashire.

The application was a resubmission of application 16/00407/OUTMAJ which was refused by Planning Committee on 4 January 2017. It has been brought back before the planning committee at the request of Councillor R Duffy. 

A site visit was carried out as there are new Members on the Planning Committee since the previous application was before the Committee in January 2017.

Four members of the public, the Chairman of Fleetwood Town Council, the County Councillor for Fleetwood East all spoke to the Committee, objecting to the application and an emailed objection to the proposal from Cat Smith MP was read out by the Chairman of the Committee.

The application was approved as per the recommendation of the Head of Planning Services to grant outline planning permission subject to conditions and the completion of a section 106 legal agreement to secure appropriate financial contributions towards off-site affordable housing contributions and to secure the occupancy of the units for residents aged 55 years and above and the Head of Planning Services was authorised to issue the decision under delegated powers upon the satisfactory completion of the S106 legal agreement.

Conditions: -

1.      In the case of any reserved matter, namely landscaping, application for approval must be made before the expiration of three years beginning with the date of this permission; and that the development hereby permitted shall 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 such matter to be approved.

2.      No development shall take place until samples of the materials to be used in the construction of the external surfaces of the building hereby permitted have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The development shall be carried out using the approved materials.

3.      No development shall take place until samples of the materials to be used for all hard surfaced areas of the site have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The development shall be carried out using the approved materials.

4.      Prior to commencement of the development, details of the appearance and specification of all external plant and any external services to be affixed / installed to the exterior of the building shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The development shall be carried out in accordance with the approved detail and shall be maintained and retained in accordance with the approved details unless prior written approval is given to alternative details.

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