Agenda and minutes
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Webcasting Introduction 1. This meeting is to be webcast. Members are reminded of the need to activate their microphones before speaking.
2. The Chief Executive will read the following announcement:
“This meeting will be webcast live to the Internet and will be archived for later viewing. Copies of recordings may be made available on request.
By entering the chamber’s lower seating area you are consenting to becoming part of the webcast.
If you wish to avoid being filmed you should move to the public gallery or speak to the webcasting officer” Additional documents: Minutes: The Assistant to the Chief Executive reminded everyone present that the meeting would be broadcast live to the Internet, and that the Council had adopted a protocol for the webcasting of its meetings. |
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Substitute Members (Council Minute 39 - 23.7.02) (Assistant to the Chief Executive) To report the appointment of any substitute members for the meeting. Additional documents: Minutes: It was noted that Councillor G Waller was substituting for Councillor Mrs S Jones and Councillor D Stallan was substituting for Councillor J Knapman. |
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Declarations of Interest (Assistant to the Chief Executive) To declare interests in any item on this agenda. Additional documents: Minutes: There were no declarations of interest made pursuant to the Member’s Code of Conduct. |
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To confirm the minutes of the last meeting of the Committee held on 26 June 2013 (attached). Additional documents: Minutes: RESOLVED:
That the minutes of the meeting held on 26 June 2013 be taken as read and signed by the Chairman as a correct record. |
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Any Other Business Section 100B(4)(b) of the Local Government Act 1972, together with paragraphs 6 and 25 of the Council Procedure Rules contained in the Constitution requires that the permission of the Chairman be obtained, after prior notice to the Chief Executive, before urgent business not specified in the agenda (including a supplementary agenda of which the statutory period of notice has been given) may be transacted.
In accordance with Operational Standing Order 6 (non-executive bodies), any item raised by a non-member shall require the support of a member of the Committee concerned and the Chairman of that Committee. Two weeks' notice of non-urgent items is required. Additional documents: Minutes: It was noted that there was no further business to be trasacted at the meeting save that published on the agenda. |
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(Director of Planning and Economic Development) To consider the attached report. Additional documents:
Minutes: The Committee considered an application referred to it by Area Plans Sub-Committee East at their meeting on 19 June with a recommendation that the application be refused.
The application sought to demolish an existing timber construction Use Class B1 units and replacement with new Class B1 units of 6 three bedroom cottages, including 3 affordable, at Stone Hall, Downhall Road, Matching Green CM17 0RA.
The Plans East Sub-Committee felt that the application should be refused on the basis that very special circumstances were not demonstrated sufficiently to outweigh the harm to Green Belt from the residential element of the proposal.
Members, in the course of their discussion, suggested that additional information was needed regarding the financial viability of the development without the housing element as it was felt that if business re-development was not viable in its own right, then the housing may have been justified as enabling development. In response to this query, the applicant supplied figures demonstrating that the re-development of the site solely for the proposed business units would not be a financially viable option and indeed would result in a net loss.
The Committee heard from the applicant.
The Committee agreed with the assessment of officers that planning permission should be granted.
RESOLVED:
That planning application EPF/2343/12 at Stone Hall, Downhall Road, Matching Green CM17 0RA be granted subject to the following conditions:
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(Director of Planning and Economic Development) To consider the attached report. Additional documents: Minutes: The Committee considered an application, which they had previously considered on 3 October 2012, for erection of a two storey detached dwelling and Community Nature Reserve, Sparks Farm, 185 Nine Ashes Road, High Ongar, when they had resolved to grant planning permission subject to the completion of an S106 Agreement within 6 months. The S106 Agreement required the developer to:
(1) Provide a Community Nature Reserve accessible by members of the public.
(2) The maintenance of the Community Nature Reserve by the owners of the proposed house in accordance with the approved 10 year Nature Conservation Management Plan.
(3) Seek approval of further Nature Conservation Management Plans for implementation from and beyond 10 years after the date of planning permission.
(4) Implement, in perpetuity, all subsequent approved Nature Conservation Management Plans.
It was advised that the developer was in a position to sign a completed S106 Agreement, however, since the 6 month time limit given by this committee to complete it had lapsed, it was not possible for the Council to sign the agreement. Authority was sought to complete the agreement within 3 months.
The Extension of the S106 Agreement period was granted.
RESOLVED:
That conditional planning permission be granted subject to the completion, within 3 months of the 21 August 2013, of an agreement under Section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, in respect of the formation of a Community Nature Reserve accessible by members of the public and maintained by the owners of the proposed house in accordance with a Nature Conservation Management Plan. |