At the Planning Committee meeting on 17th June 2020, Members advised that they were minded to refuse the above application and invited an implications report for further consideration.
Minutes:
At the Planning Committee meeting on 17th June 2020, Members advised that they were minded to refuse the above application and invited an implications report for further consideration. The Committee therefore had before it an *implications report of the Head of Planning, Economy and Regeneration setting out the implications of refusal.
The Planning Officer explained the implications report highlighting the reasons for refusal that members had identified at the previous meeting:
· Number of developments in the area
· Suitability of this particular business in this particular area
· Impact of noise on site and the number of hours worked
He explained that Public Health had appraised the application and that they concluded that subject to restrictions on hours that the impact could be adequately mitigated.
He informed members that the north end of the site had been determined as in the fringes of the North Devon Biosphere, a UNESCO-designated reserve, that officers had considered this and that with regard to the scale and nature of the proposed development within that portion of the site that the proposed conditions were adequate.
He addressed the points submitted by the Ward Member at public question time:
· Alternative sites had been investigated within a 3 mile radius not 3km
· Members should only consider the noise impacts of the application site and not from other locations
Members requested confirmation of the additional and updated conditions which had been presented at the previous Committee meeting.
The Planning Officer confirmed the additional and updated conditions as:
· Additional Condition - No external lighting shall be installed on site unless details of such lighting, including the intensity of illumination and predicted lighting contours, have been first submitted to, and approved in writing by, the Local Planning Authority prior to its installation. Any external lighting that is installed shall accord with the details so approved.
· Amended reason for Condition 3 - To allow the Local Planning Authority to retain control over the future use of the site, in the interests of visual and residential amenity, in accordance with policy DM2.
· Amended Condition 4 - The building hereby approved shall be used for purposes falling within Use Class B1(a) or (b) only and for no other purpose (including any other purpose in any Use Class of the Schedule to the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987, or in any provision equivalent to that Class in any statutory instrument revoking and re-enacting that Order with or without modification), or any other use permitted under the provisions of Article 3 of The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development)(England) Order 2015 (or any Order revoking and re-enacting that Order with or without modification).
· Amended Condition 6 - No external lighting shall be installed on site unless details of such lighting, including the intensity of illumination and predicted lighting contours, have been first submitted to, and approved in writing by, the Local Planning Authority prior to its installation. Any external lighting that is installed shall accord with the details so approved.
It was therefore:
RESOLVED that: Planning permission be granted subject to conditions as recommended by the Head of Planning, Economy and Regeneration
(Proposed by the Chairman)
(Vote 5 for: 5 against – Chairman’s casting vote)
Notes: * implications report previously circulated and attached to the minutes
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