Decision details

Application for extensions / alterations to existing two retail units and one residential unit to form one retail unit and five self-contained apartments.

It was moved by Councillor Roberts that the application be refused on grounds of highway safety and overdevelopment. In the absence of a seconder, the motion was not put.

It was moved by Councillor Cartwright that officers be granted delegated authority to resolve the safety issues and determine the application. In the absence of a seconder, this motion was not put.

It was moved by Councillor Taylor and seconded by Councillor Hodgkins that the application be approved subject to the conditions in the officer’s report and the amendment of the condition contained in the late items to read “No development shall take place until a scheme for closing the redundant vehicular crossing and the reinstatement of the footway, including kerbstone and other appropriate details, has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The approved scheme shall be completed prior to first occupation of the development hereby approved”.

Upon being put to the vote, the motion was carried and it was

RESOLVED – permission be granted subject to the conditions contained in the officer’s report and late items as amended above.

Having declared a pecuniary interest in the following two applications, Councillor Ward left the meeting at 9.05pm. Councillor Sutton took the chair at this juncture.