Agenda and minutes

To receive any apologies or substitutions for the meeting.

Apologies were received from:

·       Cllr Ernie Clark

·       Cllr Sarah Gibson

·       Cllr Pip Ridout, who was substituted by Cllr Bridget Wayman

·       Cllr Elizabeth Threlfall

To approve and sign as a correct record the minutes of the meeting held on 10 August 2022.

The minutes of the meeting held on 10 August 2022 were presented for consideration.

Cllr Adrian Foster noted that at the last meeting he had requested an update from officers on where the Council was with the 5 year Housing Land Supply and if the Council had not met the supply whether there was a strategy in place to reach the required figure. However, that had not been included in the minutes of the last meeting. He requested that an update be provided at the next meeting including the above and a date for when the 5 year Housing Land Supply would be met. It was confirmed that his request would be added to the minutes of this meeting.

It was,

Resolved:

To approve and sign the minutes as a true and correct record.

To receive any declarations of disclosable interests or dispensations granted by the Standards Committee.

There were no declarations of interest.

To receive any announcements through the Chair.

There were no Chairman’s announcements.

The Council welcomes contributions from members of the public.

Statements

Members of the public who wish to speak either in favour or against an application or any other item on this agenda are asked to register no later than 10.20am on the day of the meeting. If it is on the day of the meeting registration should be done in person.

The rules on public participation in respect of planning applications are linked to in the Council’s Planning Code of Good Practice. The Chairman will allow up to 3 speakers in favour and up to 3 speakers against an application, and up to 3 speakers on any other item on this agenda. Each speaker will be given up to 3 minutes and invited to speak immediately prior to the item being considered. Representatives of Parish Councils are included separately in the speaking procedure, please contact the officer listed for details.

Members of the public will have had the opportunity to make representations on the planning applications and to contact and lobby their local member and any other members of the planning committee prior to the meeting. Lobbying once the debate has started at the meeting is not permitted, including the circulation of new information, written or photographic which have not been verified by planning officers.

Questions

To receive any questions from members of the public or members of the Council received in accordance with the constitution which excludes, in particular, questions on non-determined planning applications.

Those wishing to ask questions are required to give notice of any such questions in writing to the officer named on the front of this agenda no later than 5pm on 28 October 2022 in order to be guaranteed of a written response. In order to receive a verbal response questions must be submitted no later than 5pm on 30 October 2022. Please contact the officer named on the front of this agenda for further advice. Questions may be asked without notice if the Chairman decides that the matter is urgent.

Details of any questions received will be circulated to Committee members prior to the meeting and made available at the meeting and on the Council’s website.

The procedures for public participation were detailed and noted.

To receive details of completed and pending appeals, and any other updates as appropriate.

The appeals report in the agenda was detailed.

Members also highlighted that there had been 2 appeal decisions recently regarding applications which the Strategic Planning Committee had refused at  Land Off Park Road, Malmesbury (applications 19/05898/OUT and 20/08341/OUT). Both appeals were supported by the planning inspector and the Committee’s decision reversed. This related back to the lack of a 5 year housing land supply. So, this was an important factor which the Committee had to take into consideration.

Resolved:

To note the update on appeals.

To consider and determine the following planning applications.

The following planning application was considered.

Residential development comprising 106 dwellings including formation of vehicular access and footways, open space, drainage, landscaping and associated works.

Public Participation

Murdo Urquhart spoke in objection to the application

Eleanor Wills spoke in objection to the application.

James Prain spoke in objection to the application.

Des Dunlop spoke in support of the application.

Cllr Annie Riddle of Salisbury City Council spoke in objection to the application.

Adam Madge (Development Management Team Leader, South) presented a report which recommended to delegate to the Head of Development Management to grant planning permission subject to the completion of a section 106 legal agreement and conditions for a residential development comprising 106 dwellings including formation of vehicular access and footways, open space, drainage, landscaping and associated works.

The site consisted of a field which borders the main A3094 (Netherhampton road). In planning policy terms, the site was located in the open countryside, outside the boundary for Salisbury City as a principal settlement as defined in the Wiltshire Core strategy. It was however allocated in the Wiltshire Housing Sites Allocation DPD.

The planning officer presented the slides for the meeting (published in the agenda supplement). The proposal had a single access point which led onto the A3094. The A3094 led to Wilton in one direction and the Harnham gyratory in the other.

Across the road from the site was another allocated site which had outline planning permission for 640 dwellings. The reserve matters application for that site was currently underway.

The proposal comprised a mixture of houses, bungalows and flats and had a large area of green open space running through the centre so that views of the cathedral could be retained. English Heritage were happy with that approach. There were also some drainage ponds within the open space. The site layout had been updated to increase the size of footpaths on the site so that they could also be used by cyclists. The development was proposing 40% on-site affordable housing provision to include both rented and shared ownership homes.

2 late observations had been received which had been circulated to Members. One had resulted in an amendment to condition 2, the plan for the block of flats would be substituted for one which removed three windows from the Eastern elevation. This was to ensure that houses to the East were not overlooked. This would have little effect on the properties in the block, as they had originally been designed without those extra windows, and each room already had a window on a different elevation.

Officers had spent a long time working on the application and with the developers to ensure that consultees were satisfied. It was on an allocated site and the houses were needed to help meet the 5 year housing land supply. Therefore, the recommendation was for approval.

Members of the committee then had the opportunity to ask technical questions of the officer.

In response the officer explained that the scheme regarding the bronze age ring ditch was to uncover and record the ditch, but it would not be retained. The ditch had already been damaged by ploughing, archaeology had  ...  view the full minutes text for item 126.

Any other items of business, which in the opinion of the Chairman, should be taken as a matter of urgency.

There were no urgent items.