Agenda and minutes

  In the absence of Councillor Congreve, nominations to chair the meeting were sought

  RESOLVED -  That Councillor J McKenna be elected as Chair of the meeting

  The Chair welcomed everyone to the meeting and informed Members that this would be the last Plans Panel for John Bramald, the Officer who registered public speakers and timed the presentations to Panel, as he was retiring from the Council.  Members joined the Chair in a round of applause and wished John well for his retirement

  There were no late items

To disclose or draw attention to any disclosable pecuniary interests for the purposes of Section 31 of the Localism Act 2011 and paragraphs 13-16 of the Members’ Code of Conduct. 

  There were no declarations of disclosable pecuniary interests

To receive apologies for absence (If any)

  Apologies for absence were received from Councillor Congreve who was substituted for by Councillor J McKenna and from Councillor J Harper

To approve the minutes of the North and East Plans Panel meeting held on 31st October 2013

(minutes attached)

  RESOLVED -  That the minutes of the North and East Plans Panel meeting held on 31^st October 2013 be approved

  With reference to minute 63 of the meeting held on 31^st October 2013 – Application 13/9/00161/MOD – 61 High Ash Avenue LS17, the Head of Planning Services advised that the amendments to this longstanding case had now been undertaken on site, bringing the matter to a close

  With reference to minute 69 of the meeting held on 31^st October 2013, - Pre-application presentation on proposals at Millennium Village, Allerton Bywater, Members were informed that the formal application had now been submitted

  With reference to minute 68 of the meeting held on 31^st October 2013 – proposed new primary school at Florence Street and Stanley Road, concerns were raised at the amount of fly tipping which had occurred on the site, since the household waste site at Stanley Road had closed.  That the likelihood of fly tipping taking place at the site had been drawn to Officers’ attention by Members when a pre-application presentation had been made to Panel, earlier in the year and the matter needed to be addressed

  The Head of Planning Services stated that he would raise this matter with colleagues and report back to Members on this

To consider a report of the Chief Planning Officer on an application for change of use of outbuilding to dog boarding business

(report attached)

  Plans, photographs and drawings were displayed at the meeting.  A Members site visit had taken place earlier in the day

  Officers presented the report which sought approval for the continued use of an outbuilding for a dog boarding business at 72 Acaster Drive LS25

  Members were informed that temporary planning permission had been granted last year in view of the possible impact of the commercial kennels on neighbourhood amenity.  It was reported that no complaints had been received by the Environmental Protection Team since temporary planning consent had been granted and therefore Officers considered it appropriate to recommend a permanent permission be granted..  Members were informed that the applicant had applied to the Council for a licence for 5 dogs, in 4 kennels and that the licence had been granted and would be reviewed annually

  The Panel heard representations from Councillor Dobson on behalf of a local resident, who provided information which included:

·  the disposal of dog waste on the site and that a commercial arrangement was preferable

·  the proximity of a primary school to the premises; associated highway issues and the possibility of amending the drop off and pick up times set out in condition 4, for people visiting the kennels so these would not conflict with the school run and add to the traffic congestion already experienced in this area

Members discussed the application and commented on the following

matters:

·  the well-run nature of the business operated by the applicant

·  that a condition tying the planning consent to the current applicant should be considered

·  that the application should be granted as set out in the submitted report

·  the possibility of amending the drop off/pick up times at the dog boarding business to omit peak traffic times during the school day, with differing views on this given the limited impact involved

The Panel considered how to proceed

RESOLVED -  That the application be granted subject to the conditions

set out in the submitted report with an amendment to condition no 2, to add  that the kennels should also only to be operated by the applicants

  Under Council Procedure Rule 16.5, Councillor Lyons required it to be recorded that he abstained from voting on this matter

To consider a report of the Chief Planning Officer on an application for detached house with attached double garage and associated landscaping

(report attached)

  Plans, photographs and drawings were displayed at the meeting.  A Members site visit had taken place earlier in the day.  The site had been locked but Members were content with viewing the site from outside

  Officers presented the report which related to an application for a detached house with double garage and landscaping at the Cleavesty Centre, East Keswick, a former riding school which was sited in the Green Belt and within a Special Landscape Area

  Members were informed that the proposals would see the removal of all of the existing buildings on the site and the erection of a u-shaped dwelling  arranged around an internal courtyard, with a single storey glazed element which linked the buildings.  The design of the scheme was intended to appear as a complex of farm buildings

  The landscaping proposals were outlined and it was noted there was some inconsistency in relation to the access on the layout plan and that shown on the landscape plan

  The planning history of the site was outlined with Panel being informed that previous proposals for three dwellings had been refused, with reasons being inappropriate development in the Green Belt and the isolated nature of the site.  An application for a single dwelling on the site had also been refused, although the Inspector had considered the design of that scheme to be acceptable but had refused the application on the grounds of being inappropriate development in the Green Belt and creating an isolated dwelling in the countryside

  Details of the size and scale of the development were provided and the impact of this on the openness of the area

  Officers reported that a draft S106 Agreement had not been submitted with the application and that unlike the previous application for a single dwelling which had met level 6 of the Code for Sustainable Homes, the current application proposed to meet level 5 of this Code

  Members’ attention was drawn to paragraph 8.4 of the submitted report which set out relevant paragraphs from the NPPF relating to sustainable development and Green Belt

  Members were informed that in terms of the design of the proposals, Officers were satisfied with this and that Highway colleagues had raised no concerns about the access and car parking arrangements, but that in respect of sustainability, Officers considered that there was a lack of accessibility to facilities and a lack of footway into the village and, together with concerns about inappropriate development in the Green Belt, were recommending to Members that the application be refused, with suggested reasons for refusal being included in the report

  The Panel heard representations on behalf of the applicant, with Members being provided with information which included:

·  a different interpretation of paragraph 89 of the NPPF

·  inconsistencies in the submitted report

·  that the issues of level 5 of the Code for Sustainable Homes and provision of a draft S106 Agreement had not been raised by Officers; that Code 6 would be targeted and that these issues could be controlled by conditions  ...  view the full minutes text for item 79.

To note that the next meeting will take place on Thursday 19^th December 2013 at 1.30pm

  Thursday 19^th December 2013 at 1.30pm in the Civic Hall, Leeds