Issue - meetings

To consider the attached report.

Public participation

Lt. Col. Stephen Bush spoke in favour of enforcement action.

Mr Martin Gairdner spoke in favour of enforcement action.

Mr Tony Allen spoke in support of recommendation A in the Officers’ report.

Mr William Grant spoke in support of recommendation A in the Officers’ report.

Mr J Carr, on behalf of Winterbourne Stoke Parish Council, spoke in favour of enforcement action.

Mr Richard Brasher, on behalf of Berwick St James Parish Council, spoke in favour of enforcement action.

The Lead Principal Planning Enforcement Officer introduced the report which had been requested by the committee at its meeting on 22 April 2010.   The report advised the committee of various breaches of planning control at the site and set out options for appropriate action.

The committee considered the implications of options A and B and after a lengthy debate it was

Resolved:

1. That option A, as detailed in the report, be approved with the proviso that a progress report comes back to next meeting and relevant enforcement notices are drafted in readiness should alternative action through submission of unilateral undertakings not be progressing as envisaged.

2. That all future applications in respect of this site are dealt with by the committee and not under delegated powers.