Agenda and minutes

RESOLVED that this was noted

Apologies were received from Councillors Bridgett, Mather, Renner-Thompson, and Seymour.

Minutes of the meeting of the North Northumberland Local Area Committee held on Thursday, 22 June 2023 as circulated, to be confirmed as a true record and signed by the Chair.?? 

RESOLVED that the minutes of the meeting of the North Northumberland Local Area Committee held on Thursday 22 June 2023, as circulated, were confirmed as a true record, and were signed by the Chair.? 

Unless already entered in the Council’s Register of Members’ interests, members are required where a matter arises at a meeting; 

1. Which directly relates to Disclosable Pecuniary Interest (‘DPI’) as set out in Appendix B, Table 1 of the Code of Conduct, to disclose the interest, not participate in any discussion or vote and not to remain in room. Where members have a DPI or if the matter concerns an executive function and is being considered by a Cabinet Member with a DPI they must notify the Monitoring Officer and arrange for somebody else to deal with the matter.

2. Which directly relates to the financial interest or well being of a Other Registrable Interest as set out in Appendix B, Table 2 of the Code of Conduct to disclose the interest and only speak on the matter if members of the public are also allowed to speak at the meeting but otherwise must not take part in any discussion  or vote on the matter and must not remain the room.

3. Which directly relates to their financial interest or well-being  (and is not  DPI) or the financial well being of a relative or close associate, to declare the interest and members may only speak on the matter if members of the public are also allowed to speak. Otherwise, the member must not take part in discussion or vote on the matter and must leave the room.

4. Which affects the financial well-being of the member, a relative or close associate or a body included under the Other Registrable Interests column in Table 2, to disclose the interest and apply the test set out at paragraph 9 of Appendix B before deciding whether they may remain in the meeting.

5. Where Members have or a Cabinet Member has an Other Registerable Interest or Non Registerable Interest in a matter being considered in exercise of their executive function, they must notify the Monitoring Officer and arrange for somebody else to deal with it. 

NB Any member needing clarification must contact monitoringofficer@northumberland.gov.uk.  Members are referred to the Code of Conduct which contains the matters above in full. Please refer to the guidance on disclosures at the rear of this agenda letter.

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Councillor Swinbank advised that he was a member of the River and Boat Club in Alnmouth and had a personal but non-prejudicial interest in planning application 21/03496/FUL.

Councillor Hardy in the Chair.

To request the committee to decide the planning applications attached to this report using the powers delegated to it. 

Please note that printed letters of objection/support are no longer circulated with the agenda but are available on the Council’s website at  http://www.northumberland.gov.uk/Planning.aspx

The report requested the Committee to decide the planning applications attached to the report using the powers delegated to it. Members were reminded of the principles which should govern their consideration of the applications, the procedure for handling representations, the requirement of conditions and the need for justifiable reasons for the granting of permission or refusal of planning applications.?? 

RESOLVED that this was noted.

Proposed new detached dwelling

Westlea Bed and Breakfast, 29 Riverside Road, Alnmouth, NE66 2SD

Proposed new detached dwelling

Westlea Bed and Breakfast, 29 Riverside Road, Alnmouth, NE66 2SD

H. Nilsson – Planning Officer, introduced the application to members with the aid of a PowerPoint presentation, and gave members the following updates:

·       An update to the recommendation to read “That this application be GRANTED permission subject to a s106 financial contribution towards coastal mitigation and to secure the occupancy of the dwelling to principal residence only.”

·       The LLFA had confirmed their revised response was the same as the comments from 6 February 2023.

·       There was a typo in the report on para 7.29 and should have read “The proposals are therefore considered to be acceptable with Policies QOP1 and QOP2 of the NLP and the principles of the NPPF in relation to impact upon residential amenity.

Chris Brown spoke in objection to the application and gave the committee the following information:

·       Concerns with increased traffic and disruption to access and parking at the properties and the increased health and safety risk posed by the increased traffic and nature of the construction traffic which the applicant had proposed would use the shared access from Northumberland Street.

·       Northumberland Street was busy, and the shared access should not be used for any construction traffic or access.

·       The access was 2.63m wide at its narrowest point and 2.4m in height to the building above and was the only useable access to properties and the car park on Northumberland Mews.

·       Access from Riverside Road was larger than the Northumberland Street entrance, 2.8m wide at its narrowest point and no height restriction.

·       Northumberland County Council had a duty of care as a statutory authority in all its decision-making regarding health and safety matters.

·       All construction access should be the Riverside Road entrance only.

·       A condition should be included in the proposed application that the shared access road between Riverside Road and Northumberland Street and the turning circle behind Northumberland Mews should be open at all times.

·       A fence should be erected between the construction site and parking area immediately adjacent to the construction site where for the for Numbers 1-3 Northumberland Mews Park.

·       Residents should be given the opportunity to comment on the finalised Construction Plan when approved by the applicant.

C. Ross also spoke in objection to the application and gave the committee the following information:

·       There had been 70 objections to the application, including from the Parish Council which had been ignored.

·       There were concerns over loss of open space.

·       The application would be directly overlooking the neighbouring properties.

·       Not all space should be for development.

S. Whyte spoke on behalf of Alnmouth Parish Council and gave members of the committee the following information:

·       Alnmouth was an immensely developed village with little open space remaining.

·       There was no public benefit of any significance to the development.

·       Alnmouth had 500+ houses and 58% of those were holiday homes.

·       There would be loss of privacy for the residents of Garden Terrace.

·       The Parish Council had raised concerns at the lack of  ...  view the full minutes text for item 15.

For Members’ information to report the progress of planning appeals.? This is a monthly report and relates to appeals throughout all 5 Local Area Committee Planning Committee areas and covers appeals of Strategic Planning Committee. 

RESOLVED that this was noted.

The next meeting of the North Northumberland Local Area Committee is scheduled for Thursday, 24 August 2023.

The next meeting of the North Northumberland Local Area Planning Committee was scheduled for Thursday, 24 August 2023.

RESOLVED that this was noted.