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 6 September 2017 (already circulated by email).

The minutes of the Planning Committee meeting held on Wednesday 6 September 2017 were confirmed as a correct record.

Schedule of Appeals lodged and decided between 15 August 2017 – 15 September 2017

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

Resolved

That the position regarding the appeal as set out in the report be read and noted and that any member requiring any further details or clarification 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 residential development comprising up to 43 dwellings with new access from Hollins Lane applied for (all other matters reserved) – Land on the East Side of Hollins Lane, Forton, Lancashire – 17/00233/OUTMAJ

The Head of Planning Services submitted an application and report to be considered:

17/00233/OUTMAJ – Land on the East Side of Hollins Lane, Forton, Lancashire

The Head of Planning Services also submitted two update sheets referring to additional information to the report since the agenda had been published.

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

17/00233/OUTMAJ

The application came before the committee at the request of Councillor Wilson, the ward councillor for Wyresdale. Members had the benefit of a site visit prior to the public meeting.

Three members of the public, Councillor Don McLoughlin, Parish Councillor for Forton Parish Council, and Councillor Wilson spoke to the committee, objecting to the application.

The agent spoke to the committee in support of the application.

Members discussed the report and some concerns were expressed in respect of access to the development from Hollins Lane and the impact that additional traffic might have in respect of the junctions of the A6 and Hollins Lane.

The Head of Planning confirmed that the local highway authority had considered the issue as set out in the report.

The application was approved as per the recommendation of the Head of Planning Services to grant full planning permission subject to the conditions listed below and to the completion of the necessary s106 legal agreement to secure appropriate financial contributions towards local education provision.

Conditions and Reasons:

1.           In the case of any reserved matter, namely appearance, scale, layout or landscaping, 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; and that 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.

Reason: This condition is required to be imposed pursuant to Section 91 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 as amended by Section 51 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004.

 2.          The development shall be carried out, except where modified by the conditions to this permission, in accordance with the Planning Application validated by the Local Planning Authority on 17/03/17 including the following plans:

·                         Location Plan drawing ref. GA2034-LP-01

·                         Site Access Plan drawing ref. GA2034-SAP-01

The development shall be retained hereafter in accordance with this detail.

Reason: For the avoidance of doubt and so that the local planning authority shall be satisfied as to the details.

3.           The development shall not begin until a scheme for the provision of affordable housing as part of the development has been submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority. The affordable housing shall be provided and 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:

i.            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 from  ...  view the full minutes text for item PA.31