Agenda item

To consider the planning application and recommendations of the Director of Planning and Regulatory Services (copy enclosed, Members’ Update to be circulated)*.

The Committee received the report of the Director of Planning and Regulatory Services and determined the following planning application, having taken into account all representations and consultation replies received.

Following the Officer’s presentation of the report, Members debated this application.  The Interim Development Management and Enforcement Manager advised the Committee that whilst the Planning Department regularly supported schemes for stables throughout the District, this application was recommended for refusal on the basis of scale and bulk.  Some Members were of the opinion that provided the stables were conditioned to be used in association with the Old Rectory, they were satisfied with the application.

Councillor Mrs M Thompson proposed that the Officers’ recommendation of refusal be agreed.  Upon a vote being taken the motion was declared lost.  Councillor Miss S White then proposed approval of this application contrary to the Officers’ recommendation.  This was duly seconded and upon a vote the motion was carried.  In response to the approval, the Development Control Officer outlined a number of conditions to be applied which were agreed.  Members also agreed that approval of the application should be subject to its use being restricted to the Old Rectory, Church Street, Goldhanger.

RESOLVED that this application be APPROVED subject to the following conditions:

1          The development hereby permitted shall be begun before the expiration of three years from the date of this permission.

2          The development hereby permitted shall be carried out in complete accordance with the approved drawings specifically referenced on this decision notice

3          No development shall take place until written details and samples of all materials to be used in the construction of the external surfaces of the development hereby permitted have been submitted to an approved in writing by the local planning authority.  The development shall be carried out using the materials and details as approved. 

4          No works or development shall take place until full details of both hard and soft landscape works have been submitted and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  These details shall include the layout and materials of all hard surfaced areas.  Details of soft landscape works shall include planting plans, written specification (including cultivation and other operations associated with plant and grass establishment), schedules of plant noting species, plant size d and proposed numbers/densities, where appropriate and an implementation programme. 

5          No development shall commence until details of the siting, height, design and materials of the treatment of all boundaries including gates, fences, walls, railing and piers have been submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority.  The screening as approved shall be construction prior to the first occupation of the development to which it relates and be retained as such thereafter.

6          All external joinery shall be in timber with a painted finish and shall be retained as such thereafter.

7          The stables hereby permitted shall not be used unless and until details of the arrangements for the storage, drainage and disposal of manure, bedding and liquid animal wastes have been submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority. All such wastes shall be stored and disposed of in accordance with the scheme as approved.

8          There shall be no burning of animal or stable wastes anywhere on the site as shown edged in red on the plans which are attached to and form part of this permission.

9          No floodlighting or other external form of illumination of the site shall be undertaken.

10        Prior to the commencement of the development details of the surface water and foul drainage scheme to serve the development shall be submitted to and agreed in writing by the local planning authority. The agreed scheme shall be implemented prior to the first occupation of the development.

11        No ménage, riding arena, hardstanding or similar finished surface shall be constructed within the.

12        No jump equipment or other form of riding obstacle shall be placed upon the land, nor shall any caravan or similar chattel be stationed on the site without the prior written approval of the local planning authority.

13        The development hereby permitted shall be used solely for the benefit of the owners/occupiers of The Old Rectory, Church Street, Goldhanger.  No business or commercial use, including for the purposes of livery or any riding school activity, shall take place at the site.

POSITIVE AND PROACTIVE STATEMENT

Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2015 - Positive and Proactive Statement:

The Local Planning Authority has acted positively and proactively in determining this application by assessing the proposal against all material considerations, including planning policies and any representations that may have been received and subsequently determining to grant planning permission in accordance with the presumption in favour of sustainable development, as set out within the National Planning Policy Framework. Furthermore, Members of the planning committee which took the decision to grant planning permission as the proposal has been considered acceptable.