Issue - meetings

The Committee received an application for full planning permission.

The application sought approval for the erection of a two-storey two-bedroom dwelling with associated amenity space and associated soft landscaping.

The Senior Planner updated her report by referring to the Amendment Sheet. Pre-Committee Amendments to Recommendation:

Notwithstanding the approved plans, the building, hereby permitted, shall be constructed to meet the requirements of Part M4(2) 'accessible and adaptable dwellings' of the Building Regulations 2010 (as amended 2016).

Reason: To secure the provision of accessible housing (Cambridge Local Plan 2018 policy 51).

Councillor Porrer proposed an amendment to the Officer’s recommendation that the landscape condition should be amended to explicitly say there would be a net gain in biodiversity.

This amendment was carried unanimously.

Councillor Smart proposed an amendment to the Officer’s recommendation that an informative be included on any planning permission linked to the landscape condition in as much that two new trees should replace the two which are to be lost.

This amendment was carried unanimously.

The Committee:

Unanimously resolved to grant the application for planning permission in accordance with the Officer recommendation, for the reasons set out in the Officer’s report, subject to:

      i.          the planning conditions set out in the Officer’s report;

     ii.          the inclusion of the M(4)2 condition detailed in the Amendment Sheet; and  

   iii.          delegated authority to officers, in consultation with the Chair and Spokes, to draft and include the following amendment to condition11: the landscape condition should be amended to explicitly require a net gain in biodiversity.

   iv.          an informative should be linked to condition 11 that two new trees should be put in place of the two that had been lost.