Agenda item

Before the formal meeting of the Planning Board, Members of the Board made visits of inspection (Ward Representative St. John was present) to the sites of the following applications and the decisions recorded were set out below:-

(a)  Temporary siting of mobile home for use as agricultural workers dwelling in connection with pullet rearing business at Woodsetts Poultry Farm, Owday Lane, Woodsetts for W. Potter & Sons (Holdings) Ltd. (RB2008/1254) 

In accordance with the right to speak procedures, the following people attended the meeting and spoke about the application:-

Mr. I. Pick (on behalf of Applicant)

Mrs. Hinchcliffe (Objector)

Resolved:- That planning permission be granted for the reasons adopted by Members at the meeting and appended to the minutes and subject to the following conditions:-

1.   This permission shall be valid for a period of three years only and at the end of that period (unless further permission be granted by the Local Planning Authority prior to the end of that period) or earlier if the agricultural use of the site for pullet rearing ceases, the building shall be wholly removed and the site restored in a manner to be agreed with the Local Planning Authority.

2.   The occupation of the mobile home shall be limited to a person carrying out operations on the farm for pullet rearing and a widow or widower of such a person and to any resident dependents.

3.   Details of the proposed means of disposal of foul and surface water drainage, including details of any off-site work, shall be submitted to, and approved by, the Local Planning Authority and the development shall not be brought into use until such approved details are implemented.

4.   Notwithstanding the approved plans, prior to the commencement of development a plan shall be submitted to, and approved in writing by, the Local Planning Authority showing a visibility splay of 2.4 m x 215 m on Owday Lane.  The development shall proceed in accordance with the approved details with this level of visibility being maintained throughout the lifetime of the development.

5.   Before the development is brought into use, that part of the site to be used by vehicles shall be constructed with either:-

(a)     a permeable surface and associated water retention/collection drainage, or;

(b)     an impermeable surface with water collected and taken to a separately constructed water retention/discharge system within the site, the area shall thereafter be maintained in a working condition.

6.   No development shall take place until there has been submitted to, and approved in writing by, the Local Planning Authority a plan indicating the positions, design, materials and type of boundary treatment to be erected. The boundary treatment shall be completed before the development is brought into use.

Reasons:-

1.   In order to assess the viability of the agricultural use of the site and the effect of the development on the area and in accordance with UDP Policies ENV1 ‘Green Belts’ and ENV3.1 ‘Development and the Environment’.

2.   The site of the proposed dwelling forms part of an area where it is not the policy of the Local Planning Authority to permit the erection of dwellings for general occupation, in accordance with Policy ENV1 ‘Green Belts’.

3.   To ensure that the development can be properly drained in accordance with UDP policies ENV3.2 ‘Minimising the Impact of Development’ and ENV3.7 ‘Control of Pollution’.

4.    In the interests of highway safety.

5.   To ensure that surface water can adequately be drained and that mud and other extraneous material is not deposited on the public highway and that each dwelling can be reached conveniently from the footway in the interests of the adequate drainage of the site, road safety and residential amenity and in accordance with UDP Policy HG5 ‘The Residential Environment’.

6.   In the interests of the visual amenity of the area and in accordance with UDP Policy ENV3.1 ‘Development and the Environment’.

(b)  Conversion of bungalow to two storey dwelling house including rear extension and attached garage to side at 180 Wickersley Road, Broom (RB2009/0112)

In accordance with the right to speak procedures, the following people attended the meeting and spoke about the application:-

Mr. G. Ryan (Applicant)

Mrs. Brooks (Objector)

Mr. B. Berry (Objector)

Resolved:- That planning permission be refused for the following reasons:-

1.   The Council considers that the proposed development by virtue of its size, scale, mass, position and design would alter the appearance of the property creating an incongruous and over dominant feature in the streetscene to the detriment of visual character and appearance of area.  As such it is contrary to UDP Policy ENV 3.1 - Development and the Environment and Supplementary Planning Guidance 1 - Householder Development.

2.   The Council considers that the increase in roof height would result in the loss of stepped roof heights in a row of bungalows to the detriment of visual amenity in the streetscene, therefore, contrary to the provisions of the UDP Policy ENV3.1 'Development and the Environment' and Supplementary Planning Guidance 1- Householder Development.

3.   The Council further considers that the conversion of a bungalow to a two storey house would have an unacceptable effect on the amenities of neighbouring properties by way of overshadowing, loss of privacy and overbearing impact contrary to Supplementary Planning Guidance 1 - Householder Development.