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 5 July 2017 (already circulated by email).

The minutes of the Planning Committee meeting held on Wednesday 5 July, 2017 were confirmed as a correct record. Further to the approval of those minutes, an update report on a detached dwelling at the rear of the former Saracens Head Hotel, 200 Park Lane, Preesall, Poulton-Le-Fylde, Lancashire, FY6 0NW will come before the Planning Committee for information, at the next meeting scheduled for 6 September 2017.

The Chairman clarified that the resolution in the minutes of the meeting of 22 March 2017 regarding 16/00550/FULMAJ should have included, as per the recommendation, ‘and affordable housing provision’. The Committee noted and accepted the clarification.

Schedule of Appeals lodged and decided between 15 June 2017 to 15 July 2017.

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

Resolved

That the position regarding the appeals, as set out on pages 1 – 10 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 (all matters reserved) for residential development and associated infrastructure – Land at Garstang Road, Bowgreave, Lancashire – 15/00420/OUTMAJ (pages 12 - 46)

Ø   Item 02, Reserved matters application for the erection of 160 dwellings with associated work – Land off Lambs Road, Thornton Cleveleys, Lancashire– 17/00050/REMMAJ (pages 47 - 65)

Ø   Item 03, Application for removal of condition 5 (relating to holiday accommodation) on Planning Permission 08/00385/FUL – 1 Maple Cottages, Sowerby Road, Inskip-With-Sowerby, Lancashire, PR3 0TT – 17/00455/FUL (pages 66 - 74)

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

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

Ø    17/00050/REMMAJ – Land off Lambs Road, Thornton Cleveleys, Lancashire

Ø     17/00455/FUL – 1 Maple Cottages, Sowerby Road, Inskip-With-Sowerby, Lancashire, PR3 0TT

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

15/00420/OUTMAJ

Mrs P Stothert.  Outline application (all matters reserved) for residential development and associated infrastructure.  Land at Garstang Road, Bowgreave, Lancashire.

As explained within the report, this application was before Committee for a second time.

This application was initially presented to the Committee on 22 March 2017 along with other applications along the A6 corridor. At that meeting the Committee resolved to grant planning permission subject to the completion of a necessary S106 legal agreement to secure appropriate contributions towards highway improvement works and local education provision. As yet, this S106 has not yet been completed and so planning permission has yet to be formally granted.

The previous report was included with the report updated to include the information previously provided to the Committee in a separate introduction to the March Committee agenda and via update sheets. It also included the latest calculations of the necessary contributions towards highway improvement works. 

The application was back before Committee because, since the previous resolution, a tree preservation order (TPO)(no. 5 of 2017) had been introduced to cover two trees at the centre of the site and three hedgerow groups that are within the site and along the road frontage. The TPO is a formal designation and so its introduction required consideration, however, its application was not considered to represent a material change in circumstance and so no further consultation or publicity in respect of the application had been deemed necessary. There was not another site visit as there was no material change in circumstance. Photos and a video were made available at the Committee meeting.

The Committee resolved to grant outline planning permission subject to conditions and a S106 legal agreement to secure appropriate financial contributions towards local education, sustainable travel and highway improvement works, and that the Head of Planning Services be authorised to issue the decision upon the agreement of heads of terms with regard to the contributions towards the highway initiatives to be determined by LCC Highways and the satisfactory completion of the s106 agreement.

Whilst it was also recommended that a Grampian condition be imposed to prevent commencement of any development until and unless planning permission is granted for the development of Jct 2 M55 and the Preston West Distributor, it was noted that the decision on that scheme was likely to be made before a S106 agreement could be completed. If this was the circumstance, then the Grampian condition would be unnecessary and, should this be the case, the Head of Planning Services was authorised to issue the decision without the Grampian condition.

Conditions and Reasons: -

1.  a)    In the case of any reserved matter, namely access, 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  ...  view the full minutes text for item PA.17

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

17/00050/REMMAJ

Wainhomes (North West) Ltd.  Reserved matters application for the erection of 160 dwellings with associated works.  Land Off Lambs Road, Thornton Cleveleys, Lancashire.

The application was before the Committee for consideration at the request of Councillor Matthew Vincent. Members had the benefit of a site visit before the public meeting, as it was considered that the nature of the site and surroundings could not be adequately conveyed through photographs alone.

Three members of the public, a Ward Councillor and the County Councillor for Thornton and Hambleton all spoke to the Committee, objecting to the application and an emailed objection to the proposal from Ben Wallace MP was read out by the Chairman of the Committee.

The Agent spoke to the Committee in support of their application.

The application was Deferred against the recommendation of the Head of Planning Services, for further discussion between officers and the applicant on the following matters:

• Dispersion of the affordable units through the site.
• Improved internal road links and pedestrian links to Lambs Road and Raikes Road.
• Number of units on the site and amount of POS resulting in an overdevelopment of the site.

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

17/00455/FUL

Mr & Mrs T Southwell.  Application for removal of Condition 5 (relating to holiday accommodation) on Planning Permission 08/00385/FUL.  1 Maple Cottages, Sowerby Road, Inskip-With-Sowerby, Lancashire, PR3 0TT.

This application was brought to Committee at the request of Councillor Catterall. A site visit took place, to aid Members in understanding the proposal beyond the information submitted with the application.

One member of the public spoke to the Committee to object to the application.

The Applicant spoke to the Committee in support of her application.

An emailed letter of support to the proposal from Councillor Sue Catterall was read out by the Chairman of the Committee.

The application was Refused as per the recommendation of the Head of Planning Services, for the following reasons:

1.       The proposal would result in the provision of three market dwellings in a poorly accessible and isolated location in the countryside. The occupants of the dwellings would therefore be car reliant. This would be contrary to Paragraph 55 for NPPF, which states that new isolated homes in the countryside should be avoided. Additionally, insufficient evidence has been submitted to demonstrate that there is no potential/demand for a tourist use from the site. This would be contrary to Policies SP13 and H6 of the Adopted Wyre Local Plan and the loss of the tourist use would result in harm to the local economy. The social, economic and environmental harm from the proposal would significantly and demonstrably outweigh the limited benefits, and therefore the development is considered to be unsustainable.

2.       The proposed dwellings that would result from this application would have inadequate amenity, by reason of the lack of outlook through windows that serve main rooms and lack of private amenity space. This poor level of amenity would be contrary to NPPF and Policy SP14 of the Adopted Wyre Local Plan.