Agenda and minutes

Please note that following changes to SO17A, public speaking about applications for planning permission will be at the start of relevant agenda items rather than at the start of the meeting.  Time limits and notification deadlines remain unchanged, as set out below.

To receive and hear any person who wishes to address the Committee. The Chairman will select the order of the matters to be heard. Each speaker will be limited to a period of five minutes for public participation on non-planning matters (up to a maximum of 30 minutes) and three minutes for the applicant/supporters and three minutes for objectors on a planning application (up to a maximum of 30 minutes).

If there is more than one person wishing to object to an application, the Chairman will invite those persons to agree a spokesperson among themselves. In default of agreement the Chairman may select one person to speak.

Requests to speak must be submitted in writing to the Assistant Director Legal and Governance and Monitoring Officer, or to the officer mentioned at the top of this agenda letter, by noon on the day before the meeting and the request must detail the subject matter of the address.

Please ensure that any submissions meet the required time limits and can be read out in five minutes for public participation on non-planning matters (up to a maximum of 30 minutes) and three minutes for applicant/supporter statements and three minutes for objector statements on a planning application (up to a maximum of 30 minutes). Members of the public are advised that 400 words at normal speaking speed equate to a three minute statement.

Three requests to speak had been received under Standing Order 17A and the speakers would be invited to address the committee immediately prior to the consideration of the application in question.

A Member must declare any disclosable pecuniary interest where it relates to any matter being considered at the meeting. A declaration of a disclosable pecuniary interest should indicate the interest and the agenda item to which it relates. A Member is not permitted to participate in this agenda item by law and should immediately leave the meeting before the start of any debate.

If the Member leaves the meeting in respect of a declaration, he or she should ensure that the Chairman is aware of this before he or she leaves to enable their exit from the meeting to be recorded in the minutes in accordance with Standing Order 37.

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15 November 2023 to approve as a correct record (attached)

Resolved: that the minutes be approved as correct record.

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At the invitation of the Chairperson, Ian Maitland-Round, objector, addressed the committee speaking in opposition of the application.

At the invitation of the Chairperson, Lis Jolley, addressed the committee speaking in favour of the application.

The Director of Place Directorate’s representative presented the report.

At the invitation of the Chairperson, the ward member, Councillor Patrick Keating, addressed the Committee.

Following debate, it was resolved that, subject to:

(a) clarification of the provision of biodiversity net gain (including the use of planning obligations and/or conditions if required) and

(b) the completion of a Habitats Regulation Assessment

the application be APPROVED subject to the following conditions together with any amended or additional conditions which may be required in consultation with the Chairman and Vice Chairman:

1.       The development hereby permitted shall be begun before the expiry of three years from the date of this permission.

Reason:  In accordance with the provisions of Section 91 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990

2.       The development hereby permitted shall be carried out in accordance with the approved plans and documents (to be listed on the decision notice).

Reason:  For the avoidance of doubt and in the interest of proper planning.

3.       Prior to commencement of development details of hydraulic modelling of the receiving watercourse, taking into account the downstream surface water drainage network, should be submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority. The results of the modelling should demonstrate that the proposed drainage scheme does not increase flood risk downstream and identify if any works are required to the receiving watercourse

Reason: To reduce the risk of flooding to the development from surface water/watercourses, and in accordance with the National Planning Policy Framework (notably paragraphs 17, 103 and sections 10 and 11), policy CS3 of the North Somerset Core Strategy policy and policy DM1 of the North Somerset Sites and Policies Plan Part 1 (Development Management Policies).  The information is required before works start on site because it is necessary to understand whether the discharge rates and volumes are appropriate prior to any initial construction works which may prejudice the surface water drainage strategy

4.       No development shall take place until details of the implementation, maintenance and management of the approved sustainable drainage scheme have been submitted to and approved, in writing, by the local planning authority. The scheme shall be implemented and thereafter managed and maintained in accordance with the approved details.

The details to be submitted shall include:

a) a timetable for its implementation and maintenance during construction and handover; and

b) a management and maintenance plan for the lifetime of the development which shall include details of land ownership; maintenance responsibilities/arrangements for adoption by any public body or statutory undertaker, or any other arrangements to secure the operation of the sustainable urban drainage scheme throughout its lifetime; together with a description of the system, the identification of individual assets, services and access requirements and details of routine and periodic maintenance activities.

Reason: To reduce the  ...  view the full minutes text for item PAR 60

At the invitation of the Chairperson, John Rooney, Agent, addressed the committee speaking in favour of the application.

The Director of Place Directorate’s representative presented the report.

At the invitation of the Chairperson, the ward member, Councillor Dan Thomas, addressed the Committee.

The Committee did not consider that the single dwelling would adversely affect the open or undeveloped character of the strategic gap. It noted the extent of the gap.  It gave weight to the special need for the dwelling and concluded that the proposed development in this instance would not unacceptably harm the separate identity and character of the settlements. It considered that matters of noise impact flood risk mitigation and highway safety could be addressed at the Technical Details stage.

The application was therefore APPROVED contrary to recommendation.

Section 3 report of the Director of Place Directorate

The Director of Place Directorate’s representatives reported on appeal decisions and appeals that had been lodged since the date of the last meeting.

Resolved: that the report be noted.

For a matter to be considered as an urgent item, the following question must be addressed: “What harm to the public interest would flow from leaving it until the next meeting?” If harm can be demonstrated, then it is open to the Chairman to rule that it be considered as urgent. Otherwise the matter cannot be considered urgent within the statutory provisions.

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