Agenda and minutes

Maidenhead Development Management Panel - expired May 2019 - Wednesday 11 April 2018 7.00 pm

Venue: Council Chamber - Town Hall - Maidenhead

Contact: Shilpa Manek  01628 796310

Items
No. Item

70.

APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE

To receive any apologies for absence.

Minutes:

Apologies for absence were received from Councillor Smith. Councillor Saunders was attending as a substitute.

71.

DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST pdf icon PDF 218 KB

To receive any declarations of interest.

Minutes:

Councillor Hunt declared a personal interest in items 3 and 5 as she owned a property in Bridge Street, near to the application sites. She stated she was attending Panel with an open mind.

 

Councillor Saunders declared a personal interest in item 1 as he was Chairman of Cookham Parish Council’s Planning Committee. He stated he was attending Panel with an open mind.

 

Councillors Kellaway, Stretton and Love declared personal interests in items 2, 3 and 5 as members of PRoM. Councillors Kellaway and Love also declared personal interests in those items as members of the Maidenhead Town Partnership.

 

Councillor Wilson also declared personal interests in items 2, 3 and 5 as a member of PRoM and the Maidenhead Town Partnership, and a personal interest in items 6 and 7 as a member of Bray Parish Council, where the applications had been discussed previously. He stated that he was attending Panel with an open mind.

 

Councillor Sharp declared a personal interest in item 2 as he lived near to the application site. He stated that he was attending Panel with an open mind.

 

Non-voting Member

 

Cllr Dudley declared a non pecuniary interest in item 2 as he lived near to the application site. He stated that he wished to address the Panel on this application.

72.

MINUTES pdf icon PDF 61 KB

To confirm the part I minutes of the meeting of 14 March 2018.

Minutes:

The minutes of the meeting held on March 14th 2018 were agreed as an accurate record.

73.

PLANNING APPLICATIONS (DECISION) pdf icon PDF 53 KB

To consider the Head of Planning’s report on planning applications received.

 

Full details on all planning applications (including application forms, site plans, objections received, correspondence etc.) can be found by accessing the Planning Applications Public Access Module by selecting the following link.

 

http://www.rbwm.gov.uk/web/dc_public_apps.htm

Additional documents:

Minutes:

The Panel considered the Head of Planning and Development’s report on planning applications and received updates in relation to a number of applications, following the publication of the agenda.

 

NB: *Updates were received in relation to planning applications marked with an asterisk.

 

Item 1

 

17/02729/FULL

 

Land At Lower Mount Farm And To West of Unit 2B And South of Long Lane, Cookham, Maidenhead

Change of use of agricultural land for the keeping of horses.

 

Councillor Kellaway put forward a motion to APPROVE the application, contrary to the Officer’s recommendation. This was seconded by Councillor Saunders.

 

The Panel VOTED to APPROVE the application on the grounds that it preserved the openness of the Green Belt, subject to it being implemented within three years of permission being granted, contrary to the Officer recommendation. Cllr Stretton abstained from the vote, all other Members voted in favour of the motion.

 

(Speakers: The Panel was addressed by Dick Scarf, Cookham Society, and Geoffrey Copas, the applicant)

Item 2*

 

17/02812/OUT

 

Land Including Thames Auto Sales And The Amber Centre And Former Unit 5 Oldfield Road Maidenhead

Outline application (means of access, appearance, layout and scale only to be determined) for demolition of existing buildings, erection of a three storey building in the southern part of the site, erection of a part two/part three/part four storey building in the northern part of the site to provide 67 residential dwellings and associated parking.

 

It was agreed that some discussions on this item would be made in Part II, before the formal vote and decision would be made in Part I.

 

Councillor Wilson proposed a motion to APPROVE the application, contrary to the Officer’s recommendation. This was seconded by Cllr Love.

 

The Panel VOTED UNANIMOUSLY to APPROVE planning permission, contrary to the Officer recommendation, with authority to issue planning permission delegated to the Head of Planning and subject to: -1) Drafting of appropriate conditions, 2) A S.106 Agreement to ensure the provision of the 8 units of affordable housing offered by the applicant and the construction of a 2.0m wide footway across the whole of the planning application site frontage (eastern side) of Oldfield Road and, 3) A S.278 (of the Highways Act) Agreement to secure the stopping-up and reinstatement to adopted footway of the 3 existing redundant points of vehicular access to Oldfield Road and to secure the completion of the proposed new access and visibility splays into the site.

 

In further justification of their resolution, Members were of the view that the proposal would not be harmful to the character and appearance of the area; there is a need to provide housing within RBWM, the Sequential Test should be considered as met and the Exceptions Test could be met through a condition requiring a Flood Evacuation Plan be put in place. With regard to the loss of an Employment Site the location is better suited to housing development (as partly justified by a stated failure to market the site successfully as an employment site) and  ...  view the full minutes text for item 73.

74.

ESSENTIAL MONITORING REPORTS (MONITORING) pdf icon PDF 132 KB

To consider the Appeals Decision Report and Planning Appeals Received.

Minutes:

The Panel noted the appeal decisions.

75.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1972 - EXCLUSION OF PUBLIC

To consider passing the following resolution:-

 

“That under Section 100(A)(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the public be excluded from the remainder of the meeting whilst discussion takes place on item 6 on the grounds that it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Paragraphs 1-7 of part I of Schedule 12A of the Act"

 

Minutes:

RESOLVED UNANIMOUSLY: to exclude the public while confidential discussions relating to item 2 were carried out.

76.

PLANNING APPLICATION 17/02812/OUT - LAND INCLUDING THAMES AUTO SALES AND THE AMBER CENTRE AND FORMER UNIT 5 OLDFIELD ROAD, MAIDENHEAD

To Consider the report. Documents to be distributed to the Panel Members tonight.