Planning Control Committee
Tuesday, 24th August, 2010 7.00 pm
Date:
Tuesday, 24th August, 2010
Time:
7.00 pm
Place:
Peel Room, Town Hall, Bury
Present:
Councillor
W Davison (In the Chair)
Councillors I Ahmed, K Audin, S Cohen, A J Cummings, M
D’Albert, M Hankey, J Harris, A K Mathews and R E
Walker
Co-opted:
25 members of the public were in attendance
Apologies for absence:
Councillors Quinn and Wright
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Decision |
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DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST |
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Minutes
of the Meeting held on Tuesday, 20th July, 2010 7.00 pm |
Delegated decision: |
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FUTURE SITE VISITS |
Delegated decisions |
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PLANNING APPLICATIONS |
Delegated decisions: |
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SITES OF BIOLOGICAL IMPORTANCE:
2008 REVIEW |
Delegated decisions |
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KIRKLEES VALLEY: DECLARATION OF
LOCAL NATURE RESERVE |
Delegated decisions |
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PLANNING DECISION MAKING
PROTOCOL |
Delegated decision: |
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OUTCOMES TOUR |
Delegated decision: |
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PLANNING APPEALS |
Delegated decision: |
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DELEGATED DECISIONS
REPORT |
Delegated decision: |
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ADDITIONAL MEETING OF THE PLANNING CONTROL COMMITTEE |
Delegated decision: |
The meeting started at 7.00pm and ended at 9.10pm
Preamble
Preamble |
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Item |
Preamble |
Councillor Hankey declared a personal interest in respect of Planning Application 52762, relating to Leigh Bank, 4 Glebelands Road, Prestwich for the reason that he is the Chair of the Bury Drug and Alcohol Abuse Partnership. |
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A report by the
Chief Planning Officer was submitted in relation to various
applications for planning permission. Supplementary information was
also submitted in respect of application numbers: |
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A report by the Chief Planning Officer was submitted which identified recent changes made to the Register of Sites of Biological Importance in Bury. It also described the purpose and application of the Register. |
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A report from the Chief Planning Officer was submitted in relation to the Council’s proposed declaration of the Kirklees Valley as a Local Nature Reserve. The report provided background information as to the Council’s Local Nature Reserve declaration target and how the declaration of the Kirklees Valley would take the Council close to its long-term Local Nature Reserve target. |
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The Council Solicitor submitted a report detailing the Protocol on Decision Making for members of the Planning Control Committee and the subsequent amendments to the previous draft following informal discussion of the Protocol on 20 July, 2010 by members of the Committee. |
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The Chief Planning Officer submitted a report providing a summary of the recent outcomes tour undertaken by members of the Planning Control Committee. Members felt that the tours were a valuable part of the Planning Committee process in terms of facilitating a review of a selection of outcomes from Planning Permissions that had been granted and as a training event on a range of planning issues. Members requested that a future tour include more ‘marginal’ developments. |
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A report by the Chief Planning Officer was submitted which presented a summary of recent decisions made by the Planning Inspectorate. Details of recent appeals lodged against delegated decisions of the Committee and the Chief Planning Officer, were also included. |
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A report from the Chief Planning Officer was submitted listing all Planning application decisions made by Officers using delegated powers between 7 June, 2010 and 11 August, 2010. |
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The Chief Planning Officer advised the meeting of a proposal to convene an additional meeting of the Planning Control Committee, on 23 September, 2010 in order to consider a planning application in respect of Red Bank House, Radcliffe, Manchester for the demolition of the existing Red Bank House care home and subsequent new development of a residential care home at this site. It was reported that the funding obtained for this development had been secured on condition of the application being considered by the Committee by 30 September, 2010. |