Agenda item

To consider a report of the Chief Planning Officer on an application for demolition of 3 bungalows, laying out of access road and erection of 11 detached houses

(report attached)

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

  Officers presented the report which sought permission for the demolition of three properties and the erection of 11 detached houses with new access road on land to the rear of 30-34 Barrowby Lane Austhorpe, LS15

  Members were informed that there was an extant planning permission for the site for a similar form of development and that the application before Panel sought to vary the design of the houses with minor alterations to their siting

  Officers reported the receipt of 4 additional letters of representation and informed Members that a major concern locally, including from Ward Members was the access road with the view being that this should be provided via Thorpe Park.  Having considered this, Officers felt that it was not appropriate to create an access which would isolate part of the community and be through trees protected by TPOs

  Members were informed that the S106 Agreement had now been signed with clarification being provided on the greenspace contribution which was confirmed as £30,881.75 and not £15,445.75 as set out in the report.  As a signed S106 was in place, rather than deferring and delegating approval of the application to the Chief Planning Officer, Panel could grant planning permission, if minded to do so

  The Panel heard representations from an objector and the applicant’s agent, who attended the meeting

  In view of some issues raised by the objector, the Panel’s Highways Officer was asked to provide further information, with the Panel being informed that although there had been a problem with numbering, the correct part of Barrowby Lane had been the subject of a speed survey as part of the original application; that traffic speeds were slow; that no objections had been raised by Highways to that application; that there had not been a change in circumstances since that time and that there were no recorded injuries/accidents on Barrowby Lane or leading to Selby Road

  Concerns were raised about several inaccuracies in the submitted report relating to the incorrect greenspace contribution and reference to some demolition

  Members also queried whether attempts had been made to resolve some of the residents’ concerns in relation to this application and sought information on the proximity of the nearest bus stop to the site

  Officers provided the following responses:

·  that the previous application had not attracted the same high volume of representations  and that the difficulty in this case was the existence of a live planning permission

·  that the proposed three speed bumps as part of the 2008 permission would not be implemented as it was felt that a more flexible approach could better address residents’ concerns about traffic calming

·  that the nearest bus stop was approximately 500m from the site

Members discussed how to proceed and whilst accepting the level of

local concern to the proposals, were mindful of the difficulty in sustaining a refusal at appeal in view of the extant planning permission

RESOLVED -  That the application be granted subject to the conditions

set out in the submitted report