Agenda and minutes
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Emergency evacuation procedure The Chair will ask the Committee Administrator to draw attention to the emergency evacuation procedure as set out under Note 6 Minutes: The Senior Democratic Services Officer read out the procedure |
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Election of Vice Chair (if desired) Minutes: A Vice Chair was not required |
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Apologies for absence and Substitutions Minutes: An apology for absence was received from Councillor Lisa Brett whose substitute was Councillor Dine Romero |
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Declarations of Interest Members who have an interest to declare are asked to state:
(a) the Item No and site in which they have an interest; (b) the nature of the interest; and (c) whether the interest is personal or personal and prejudicial.
Any Member who is unsure about the above should seek advice from the Monitoring Officer prior to the meeting in order to expedite matters at the meeting itself. Minutes: There were no declarations of interest |
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To Announce any Urgent Business Agreed by the Chair Minutes: There were no items of Urgent Business |
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Items from the Public - To receive Deputations, Statements, Petitions or Questions (1) At the time of publication, no items had been submitted.
(2) To note that, regarding planning applications to be considered, members of the public who have given the requisite notice to the Committee Administrator will be able to make a statement to the Committee immediately before their respective applications are considered. There will be a time limit of 3 minutes for each proposal, ie 3 minutes for the Parish and Town Councils, 3 minutes for the objectors to the proposal and 3 minutes for the applicant, agent and supporters. This allows a maximum of 9 minutes per proposal. Minutes: The Senior Democratic Services Officer informed the meeting that there were various members of the public etc wishing to make statements on land at the former Fullers Earthworks which was the subject matter of this Special meeting and that they would be able to do so when reaching that item on the Agenda |
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Items from Councillors and Co-opted Members To deal with any petitions or questions from Councillors and where appropriate Co-opted Members Minutes: There were no items from Councillors |
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Land at former Fullers Earthworks, Fosseway, Combe Hay, Bath - Update Report To consider a joint report by the Divisional Director of Planning and Transport Development and the Planning and Environmental Law Manager Additional documents:
Minutes: The Chair of the Committee introduced the matter and referred to the special meeting of this Committee held on Wednesday 5th January 2012 where Members considered a joint report of the Divisional Director of Planning and Transport Development and the Planning and Environmental Law Manager. He advised the Committee that this report arose from the resolution of its January meeting and its purpose was to update Members on the progress of negotiations to bring forward a Residual Waste Facility (RWF) on land at the former Fullers Earthworks and to address the further points of the Committee’s Resolution as set out in this report. The report recommended (1) that the Committee note that material progress had been made in relation to its resolution of 5th January 2012 and that Officers were making progress in negotiations with the site owner’s Agent with a view to bringing forward a RWF on this site; and (2) in these circumstances, if the Members agreed with the Officer Recommendation, that the Committee resolve (a) that Officers continue to negotiate with the site owner’s Agent to secure the delivery of a RWF on the land; and (b) that, in light of progress on the negotiations, it was not currently considered to be expedient to take enforcement action against the breaches of planning control currently identified at the site as set out in the previous report.
Mr Harwood, the Council’s Planning Consultant, reported on the matter by means of a power point presentation and took the Committee through aerial photographs taken over recent years and some taken at the Site Visit attended by Members on 19th March this year. He also referred to the Update Report (attached as Appendix 1) advising Committee Members of the introduction of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), reported on further representations received and made reference to a further letter that had been received from Harrison Grant, Solicitors acting on behalf of Protect Bath and Victims of Fullers Earth, which had been addressed to the Chair of the Committee and which it was understood had been sent direct to all the Members of the Committee.
Mr Herbert, the Council’s Planning Consultant, updated the Committee reporting, by means of a power point presentation, on the pre-application proposals that had been received. He advised that these would go through the development control process commencing with a Development Team meeting on 17th April, and were accompanied by a request for a Scoping Opinion in order that the Environmental Impact Assessment could be completed. The applicant had indicated that, following the pre-application process, an outline planning application would be submitted in November 2012.
The public speakers made their statements on the matter (the Speakers List is attached as Appendix 2) and then the Development Manager commented on some of the issues raised in these statements. On hearing the reports, some Members posed questions to which appropriate Officers responded.
The Chair opened the matter up for debate. Councillor David Veale, as Ward ... view the full minutes text for item 150. |