7 September 2011 - Agenda

Members

Mr C W Arthey
Mr P K Beer
Dr M F M Bamford
Mr M J Deacon
Mrs K S Grandon

Mr P J Holbrook
Mr P Jones
Mr D H Keane
Mr N MacMaster
Mrs M O Munson

Mr A F D W Osborne
Mr D C Rose
Mr R C Smith
Mr R W Thake
Mr A J Ward

ITEM

BUSINESS

1

SUBSTITUTES AND APOLOGIES

Any Member attending as an approved substitute to report giving his/her name and the name of the Member being substituted.

To receive apologies for absence.

2

DECLARATION OF INTERESTS

Members to declare any interests as appropriate in respect of items to be considered at this meeting.

3

MINUTES

To confirm and sign the Minutes of the meeting held on 10 August 2011 as a correct record.

4

PETITIONS

The Director of Corporate Services to report, in accordance with Council Procedure Rule No. 13, the receipt of the following petition submitted to the Chief Executive.

B/11/00825/FUL – Construction of 35 two, three and four bedroom apartments, bungalows and houses with associated roads, paths, driveways, car parking, garages and landscaping, new access from Friends Field and Tawneys Ride, plus public open space (including an equipped play area), land south of Friends Field, Bures St Mary

Petition signed by approximately 27 residents of Babergh expressing concerns about traffic/access/parking at Friends Field/Cuckoo Hill, Bures St Mary.

The petition will be taken into account when the planning application is determined at a future meeting of the Development Committee. 

In accordance with Council Procedure Rules, the Chief Executive will report the receipt of the petition to the Council meeting on 5 September 2011.

5

QUESTIONS FROM MEMBERS

The Chairman to answer any questions on any matters in relation to which the Council has powers or duties which affect the District and which fall within the terms of reference of the Committee of which due notice has been given in accordance with Council Procedure Rule No. 15.4 – (a) and (b).

6

SITE INSPECTIONS

In addition to any site inspections which the Committee may consider to be necessary, the Chief Planning Control Officer recommends that a site inspection takes place in respect of the following application:-

B/11/00830/FUL – erection of a new community health centre comprising a part single, part two-storey building (approximately 3,300sqm Class D1 floor space), the construction of new vehicular access (onto Churchfield Road) and an access road serving as an in/out entrance and exit to the Health Centre, 180 car parking spaces (with provision for disabled, family and electric car users and secure, covered motorcycle and cycle parking provision), the provision of a pedestrian and cycle track, with details of external lighting provision, foul and surface water drainage provision, and associated landscaping (incorporating tree, shrub and hedgerow planting and associated grass areas) and all ecological mitigation areas (as amplified by agents letter dated 18 July 2011 and accompanying information received by Local Planning Authority on 19 July 2011), land at County Farm, fronting Churchfield Road and Waldingfield Road, Chilton.

The provisional date for site inspections is Wednesday, 14 September 2011.

Paper L61

7

PLANNING APPLICATIONS FOR DETERMINATION BY THE COMMITTEE

Schedule of applications attached.

An Addendum to Paper L61 will be circulated to Members prior to the commencement of the meeting summarising additional correspondence received since the publication of the agenda but before 12 noon on the working day before the meeting together with any errata.

Paper L62

8

PROPOSED NON MATERIAL AMENDMENT – OMISSION OF FOOTPATH ADJACENT TO BLACKFRIARS (ESTATE ROAD) IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE CATESBY MEADOW DEVELOPMENT  SUDBURY

Report by the Chief Planning Control Officer attached.