Agenda and minutes

Apologies were received from Councillor Powell (Vice-Chair) and Councillor Drinkwater.

Councillor Strachan declared a personal interest in relation to application 18/00979/FUL as the speaker in support is a colleague.

The Minutes of the Meeting held on 30 July 2018 previously circulated were taken as read, approved as a correct record and signed by the Chairman.

Applications for permission for development were considered with the recommendations of the Director of Place and Community and any letters of representation and petitions together with a supplementary report of observations/representations received since the publication of the agenda in association with Planning Applications 18/00082/FULM, 18/00979/FUL and 18/00983/FUL.

18/00082/FULM – Demolition of 2no existing office buildings (Use Class B1) and erection of 3no storage and distribution units (Use Class B1(C), B2/B8), with ancillary offices, ancillary plant, service yard, access, parking, landscaping and associated infrastructure and works, including the removal of part of Wellington Crescent

Land at Wellington Crescent Fradley Park, Lichfield

For: Legal and General UK Property Fund

RESOLVED: That planning permission be approved subject to conditions contained in the report of the Director of Place and Community and:

(1)  Subject to the owners/applicants first entering into a Unilateral Undertaking under the Town and Country Planning Act (as amended), to secure contributions/planning obligations towards:-

1.    Travel Plan and Monitoring Fee

(2)  If the Unilateral Undertaking is not signed/completed by the 3 December 2018 or the expiration of any further agreed extension of time, then powers be delegated to officers to refuse planning permission based on the unacceptability of the development without the required contributions and undertakings as outlined in the report.

(PRIOR TO CONSIDERATION OF THE APPLICATION REPRESENTATIONS WERE MADE BY MR JOHN JARMAN (OBJECTOR) AND MR TOM ARMFIELD (APPLICANT’S AGENT)).

18/00979/FUL – Retention of alterations to existing outbuilding/annex

1 The Grange, Upper Longdon

For Mrs A Steven

RESOLVED: That planning permission be approved subject to conditions contained in the report of the Director of Place and Community, including those amended by the supplementary report and additional conditions:-

3(i)       Within 3 months of the date of this decision, a detailed landscape and planting scheme shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  This shall include hedge/screen planting to the north/north west boundary along Upper Way (behind the boundary wall).  The approved landscape and planting scheme shall thereafter be implemented within eight months of the development being brought into use, unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

(ii)        Any tree, hedge or shrub planted as part of the approved landscape and planting scheme (or replacement tree/hedge) on the site and which dies or is lost through any cause during a period of 5 years from the date of first planting shall be replaced in the next planting season with others of a similar size and species, unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

Reason: In the interests of the visual amenity of the locality and to ensure that any initial plant losses to the approved landscaping scheme are overcome, in accordance with the provisions of Core Policy 3 and Policy BE1 of the Local Plan Strategy, the Trees, Landscaping and Development Supplementary Planning Document and the National Planning Policy Framework.

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