Agenda and draft minutes

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85.

PROCEDURE AT PLANNING COMMITTEES pdf icon PDF 184 KB

Minutes:

The Chair outlined the procedure to be followed at the meeting.

 

86.

APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE

Minutes:

Apologies were received from Councillor Reid.

87.

MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETINGS pdf icon PDF 391 KB

The minutes of the Strategic Planning Committees held on Tuesday 1 March 2022, as circulated, be agreed as a true record and be signed by the Chair.

 

Minutes:

RESOLVED that the minutes of the meetings of the Strategic Planning Committee held on Tuesday 1 March 2022, as circulated, were agreed as a true record and signed by the Chair.

 

88.

DETERMINATION OF PLANNING APPLICATIONS pdf icon PDF 181 KB

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

 

Minutes:

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 the information be noted.

 

89.

21/04451/VARYCO pdf icon PDF 446 KB

Variation of  Conditions 2 (Approved Plans), 3 (Phasing Details), 4 (Obscure glass/glazing), 5 (Street lighting Details), 7 (Planting Plan), 9 (Levels Details), 11 (Highway Works), 14 (Refuse Storage Facilities), 16 (Surface Water Drainage Infrastructure), 18 (Disposal of Surface Water), 23 (Noise Mitigation) and 25 (Trees) on approved application 21/02638/VARYCO - to allow changes to site layout and mix of house types

Land North East Of New Hartley, St Michaels Avenue, New Hartley, Northumberland

 

 

Minutes:

Variation of  Conditions 2 (Approved Plans), 3 (Phasing Details), 4 (Obscure glass/glazing), 5 (Street lighting Details), 7 (Planting Plan), 9 (Levels Details), 11 (Highway Works), 14 (Refuse Storage Facilities), 16 (Surface Water Drainage Infrastructure), 18 (Disposal of Surface Water), 23 (Noise Mitigation) and 25 (Trees) on approved application 21/02638/VARYCO - to allow changes to site layout and mix of house types

Land North East Of New Hartley, St Michaels Avenue, New Hartley, Northumberland

 

T Wood, Principal Planning Officer introduced the report to the Committee with the aid of a power point presentation.  Updates were provided as follows:-

 

  • Under the consultation responses under affordable housing it stated a plan was needed for the Affordable housing scheme. This plan had been submitted and housing had confirmed they had no objection to the scheme.

 

  • Under the consultation responses under education, a sentence should be added that there had been a second response asking for £921,000 for Seaton Sluice Middle and local SEND provision. The report already had taken into account this request, and covered why an Education contribution was not being requested and therefore there was no change required to the report as a consequence of that change.

 

·       Two conditions were to be updated to reflect what has previously been approved

 

Condition 12 to be deleted and replaced with:-

 

“12) The development shall be carried out in compliance with the Framework Travel Plan agreed under discon 12 of 21/02457/DISCON, on 10/12/21 at all times  until implementation of a Full Travel Plan approved under condition 13.

 

Reason: In the interests of sustainable travel patterns in accordance with Policy DC11 of the Blyth Valley Development Control Policies DPD. “

 

Condition 15 to be varied as shown below:-

 

“15)The Construction Method Statement and other construction work mitigation details approved on the 23 March 2021 under planning application 19/00674/DISCON shall be adhered to throughout the construction period with the exception of construction deliveries which are permitted between the hours of 8am to 6pm Monday to Friday (excluding bank holidays) for a temporary period of 12 months only beginning from the date of this planning permission 21/02638/VARYCO Following the expiry of that 12 month period construction delivery times shall revert to 9.30am to 4.30pm unless planning permission has been granted otherwise by the Local Planning Authority. For the avoidance of doubt no “construction deliveries in respect of the proposed development shall take place outside of these times and no vehicles delivering construction materials/plant to the application site or removing materials/plant related to construction activities from the application site shall access and/or egress the application site through New Hartley village via Double Row, Bristol Street and St. Michael's Avenue to the west of the site. 

 

Reason: In the interests of highway safety and amenity in accordance with Policies DC11 and DC21 of the Blyth Valley Development Control Policies DPD.”

 

  • Since the report was published 2 further objections had been received from Mr Barrell, which in summary set out that:

 

-  there was at least a 1m fall between Plot  ...  view the full minutes text for item 89.

90.

APPEALS UPDATE pdf icon PDF 331 KB

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

 

Minutes:

RESOLVED that the information be noted.

 

91.

S106 AGREEMENTS UPDATE REPORT pdf icon PDF 337 KB

For Members’ information to report the agreement monitoring and collection of s106 contributions in the planning process.  This is a monthly report and relates to agreements throughout Northumberland during the previous monthly period.

 

Minutes:

In response to a question on whether decisions on applications previously considered and on site would need to be changed following adoption of the NLP, Members were advised that a Section 106 could not be unilaterally changed by a Developer it would need to be done by a deed of variation which would normally be done if something changed on site or the Developer came with a section 173 scheme, or a Developer came forward saying that they could not afford to pay and this would be brought to a Committee for a decision.  A Section 106 agreement could not be retrospectively changed due to a change in policy once it had been signed.  If a request came in to change a Section 106 Agreement for financial reasons then an in-house valuation team would assess this and if it was a relatively straightforward viability assessment they would provide advice, if it was more complex then additional consultants would be brought into to assess it and further negotiations would take place. 

 

A huge number of changes would play out with the existing policy base following the adoption of the NPL and a programme of training on these changes would be provided to Members as these would be different in different areas of the County. Training would also be included on Section 106 contributions.  The NPL had been fully viability assessed at the plan level and a rough guess had been made on how much each housing scheme would need to contribute, however this would not take away the need for individual viability assessments in some instances. 

 

 

RESOLVED that the information be noted.