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33.

Apologies for Absence

To receive any apologies or substitutions for the meeting.

Minutes:

Apologies for absence were received from Councillors Tony Trotman, Graham Wright and Nick Watts.

 

Councillor Trotman was substituted by Councillor Stewart Dobson.

 

Councillor Wright was substituted by Councillor Trevor Carbin.

 

Councillor Watts was substituted by Councillor Howard Marshall.

34.

Declarations of Interest

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

 

Minutes:

There were no declarations.

35.

Chairman's Announcements

To receive any announcements through the Chair.

Minutes:

Through the Chair it was announced that application N/11/02320/WCM - Hills Waste Recovery Facility, Lower Compton, Calne - had been withdrawn from the agenda as a result of clarification needing  to be made regarding the report relating to the acceptability of the mitigation measures the Applicant had put forward to ensure the level of air quality did not drop further below the permitted standard.

 

All interested parties had been informed of the decision to defer the application and officers would ensure all are notified when a new date is set.

 

Councillor Ansell requested it be recorded that she did not regard the reasoning behind the deferral to be sufficient.

36.

Public Participation and Councillors' Questions

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 in person no later than 10.20am on the day of the meeting.

 

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. The rules on public participation in respect of planning applications are detailed in the Council’s Planning Code of Good Practice.

 

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 (acting on behalf of the Director of Resources) no later than 5pm on Wednesday 18 September 2013. 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.

 

 

Minutes:

The procedure on public participation was noted. There were no questions submitted.

 

Details were provided of exits to be used in the event of a fire.

37.

(ITEM WITHDRAWN) N/11/02920/WCM: Hills Waste - Waste Recovery Facility, Lower Compton Waste Management Facility, Lower Compton, Calne (ITEM WITHDRAWN)

Supporting documents:

Minutes:

As detailed under Chairman’s Announcements, the application was withdrawn from the agenda prior to the commencement of the meeting.

38.

E/2013/0083/OUT: Land at Coate Bridge, Adjacent to Windsor Drive, Devizes

Supporting documents:

Minutes:

Public Participation

Mr Ted East spoke in objection to the application.

Mr Rick Roland (Devizes Neighbourhood Area Planning Group) spoke in objection to the application.

Mr Tony Sedgwick (Devizes Community Area Partnership) spoke in objection to the application.

Mr Chris Simkins, agent, spoke in support of the application.

Mr John Kirkman, (Campaign for the Protection of Rural England) spoke in objection to the application.

Cllr Chris Callow, Roundway Parish Council, spoke in objection to the application.

 

 

The Area Development Manager presented a report which recommended that planning permission be refused. It was clarified that the application was for up to 350 houses across a 20 hectare site that abutted but did not fall within the local Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and that currently contained only one structure, which was derelict, and that the application was outline only, with all detailed matters of design and other matters except the means of  access reserved for a future application if approved. Details of a late representation concerned about medical services being overstretched in Devizes should the application be approved were given, although it was stated that there had been no comment from Public Health bodies on the matter.

 

It was further stated that the Limits of Development as identified in the Kennet Local Plan were still relevant, and that the site lay outside that limit. It was also noted that the emerging Core Strategy did not identify Devizes as a primary settlement for housing growth, and the site itself had not received any other allocated use within the plan and no local community led plan had been created which proposed such a use. It was stated that the National Planning Policy Framework would, however, support a development in such circumstances if the council’s land bank for the local Housing Market Area had less than five years supply of land for housing development. In this case, this consideration did not arise as it was confirmed the current extent of the land bank for the area was a 5.7 year housing supply.

 

Other key issues for the Committee to consider included the impact on the character of the area highways issues, drainage, affordable housing and archaeology. It was noted that officers were satisfied with the arrangements for those issues except for the completion of an archaeological assessment, but that the policy reasons for refusal outlined above outweighed those issues.

 

Members of the Committee then had the opportunity to ask technical questions of the officers. Details were sought regarding the Council’s land bank for the Eastern Housing Market Area and the county as a whole, and it was stated officers were confident the council was in a secure position on maintaining an appropriate land bank across the council area and the eastern area specifically as time progressed.

 

Members of the public then had the opportunity to present their views to the Committee, as detailed above.

 

The Local Member, Councillor Laura Mayes, then spoke in objection to the application, noting that there was no  ...  view the full minutes text for item 38.

39.

Date of Next Meeting

To note the date of the next scheduled meeting of the Committee on 23 October 2013.

Minutes:

The date of the next scheduled meeting was confirmed as 23 October 2013.