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Decision Maker: Planning
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
The Committee received an application for
full planning permission.
The
application sought approval for alteration to building and extension to provide
loading bay. Reconfiguration of car park and associated
landscaping. New S106 agreement to allow food retail.
The Committee noted the amendment sheet
which updated / clarified the recommendations.
The Committee received a representation in objection to the application
from a local resident.
The representation covered the following issues:
i.
The transport assessment was inadequate.
ii.
The former trader on the site, Wick’s, produced
less vehicle numbers visiting the site.
iii.
There had been insufficient consultation with the
local community.
iv.
No comparative traffic numbers from other Aldi
sites had been provided.
v.
Layout of exit from site was unsafe.
Alistair Close (Applicant’s Agent) addressed the Committee in support of
the application.
The Committee
expressed concerns regarding the lack of detail in the traffic assessment and
suggested deferring the application and inviting a Traffic Engineer to attend a
future Committee.
Officers confirmed
that, whilst the report only contained a brief summary of the traffic
assessment, intensive scrutiny of the traffic implications been undertaken by
the County Council.
Councillor Hipkin
proposed a deferment of the application until a Highways Engineer could attend.
This proposal was lost (by 4 votes to 4 and the Chair’s
casting vote).
The Committee:
Resolved (by 5 votes to 1 and 2 abstentions) to grant the
application for planning permission in accordance with the officer
recommendation, for the reasons set out in the officer report, and subject to
the conditions recommended by the officers.
Report author: Mairead O'Sullivan
Publication date: 23/04/2019
Date of decision: 06/03/2019
Decided at meeting: 06/03/2019 - Planning
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