Agenda and minutes

Borough Wide Development Management Panel - Wednesday 13 June 2018 7.00 pm

Venue: Desborough Suite - Town Hall

Contact: shilpa manek 

Items
No. Item

16.

APOLOGIES

To receive any apologies for absence.

Minutes:

Apologies of Absence were received from Councillor Leo Walters. Councillor John Bowden was substituting at the Panel.

17.

DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST pdf icon PDF 218 KB

To receive any Declarations of Interest.

Minutes:

Declarations of Interest were received from:

 

Councillor Lilly Evans declared a personal interest for Item 3 as she knew the applicants.

 

Councillor Geoff Hill declared a personal interest for Item 1 as he was a Maidenhead Town Forum Member.

 

Councillor David Hilton declared a personal interest for Items 2 and 3 as he was a member of Sunninghill Parish Council where both applications had been heard. Councillor Hilton attended an early briefing on Item 2 but took no part and had not attended any briefings for Item 3.

 

Councillors Richard Kellaway and Derek Wilson, both declared a personal interest for Item 1 as they were both members of Maidenhead Town Partnership and PRoM.

 

Councillor Colin Rayner declared a prejudicial interest for item 4 as he knew the owners of the property personally.

18.

MINUTES pdf icon PDF 60 KB

To confirm the minutes of the previous meeting.

Minutes:

The Panel VOTED UNANIMOUSLY that they agreed with the decisions stated in the minutes but since the sequence of events was incorrect, the panel would prefer for a new draft to be tabled at the next Borough-wide Development Management Panel.

19.

PLANNING APPLICATIONS (DECISION) pdf icon PDF 49 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/pam/search.jsp or from Democratic Services on

01628 796251 or democratic.services@rbwm.gov.uk

Additional documents:

Minutes:

17/02698/FULL

 

Sehlbach And Whiting Ltd Exclusive House

Oldfield Road

Maidenhead

SL6 1TA

 

Proposed residential redevelopment to provide 37 new apartments.

 

A motion to Defer and Delegate approval to Head of Panel subject to agreement of planning conditions in association with the Chair of the Borough-wide Panel and Councillors Hill and Wilson and try to secure one affordable housing unit instead of 0.48. And to ensure a condition was attached to require the recording of any heritage significance removed from the site. This motion was put forward by Councillor Wilson and seconded by Councillor Hill.

 

The reasons for going against Officers recommendation included:

 

A number of sites along Oldfield Road have recently been approved to change from employment land to housing. There has been a change to the character of the area over time and therefore there is a strong case for residential development on the site.

 

Viability and marketing reports submitted with the application concludes that the redevelopment of this site should be residential led.

 

Members considered that a flood evacuation plan would be acceptable to mitigate flood risk to future occupiers and it is noted that the EA have not objected to the scheme. Weight was also given to the Jubilee Flood defence.

 

Given that Historic England has confirmed that the building was not worthy of Listing members raised no objection to its loss.

 

The local experience of one of the ward members indicated the Vacant Building Credit should be applied.

 

Given the surrounding buildings e.g. Burley Court development (Miller Homes ) similar number of storeys the building not considered too big

 

Nine Panel Members (Councillors Bateson, Bicknell, Bowden, Grey, Hill, Hunt, Kellaway, C Rayner and D Wilson) voted in favour for this motion. Five Panel members (Councillors Alexander, Beer, L Evans, Hilton and Saunders) voted against the motion and Councillor Burbage abstained from voting.

 

(Speakers: The Panel was addressed by Corne Van Der Breggen, Objector and Gary McGee, Applicants Agent).

 

17/03036/FULL

 

Former British Gas Site Bridge Road

Ascot

Demolition of two existing redundant cottages and redevelopment of the former Sunninghill Gasworks site to provide 53 residential houses, 24 residential apartments and 4 residential coach houses (Class C3) including the provision of new pedestrian and vehicular accesses and routes, car parking, landscaping, open space, remediation and associated works.

 

A motion to Refuse the application, as per the Officer’s recommendation, was put forward by Councillor Hilton and seconded by Councillor Bateson for all the reasons as detailed in the officers report and no demonstration that a refuse vehicle could adequately service site and furthermore the affordable housing had not been appropriately located and should not have been located all in one area of the development.

 

Eleven Panel Members (Councillors Alexander, Bateson, Beer, Bicknell, Bowden, L Evans, Grey, Hill, Hilton, Hunt and D Wilson) voted in favour for the motion, three Panel Members voted against (Councillors Burbage, Kellaway and C Rayner) voted against the motion and Councillor Saunders abstained from voting.

 

The application would have been refused.

 

(Speakers: The Panel  ...  view the full minutes text for item 19.