Agenda and draft minutes

There were no declarations of interest stated.

To consider the minutes of the previous meeting(s).

Resolved:              That the minutes of the meeting held on 25 February, 2025 be agreed as a correct record.

Councillor Sylvia Dymond spoke on this application

Resolved:    That the application be refused for the following reasons:

(i)              The applicant has failed to demonstrate that a safe and suitable means of access to the site for the intended scale of development is achievable, thereby having an adverse impact on highway safety.

(ii)             The proposal does not provide a high quality residential development as a result of its high density and due to issues surrounding parking dominant layouts, excessive hard standing at the front of properties and a lack of soft landscaping. The resulting development would be

considered over development and overly urban in character.

(iii)           The access arrangements for the development would result in an increase in noise nuisance and loss of privacy to the properties of ‘The Hawthorns’ and no.34 Pickwick Place and would therefore have an unacceptably adverse impact on residential amenity.

(iv)           The proposed development would result in the loss of visually significant trees which would be harmful to the character of the surrounding area and to natural habitats within the site, and insufficient information has been provided to justify the tree loss as part of the proposals.

(v)             Insufficient information has been provided to demonstrate that the proposed development would provide a suitable and sustainable drainage system.

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This item includes a supplementary report.

Resolved:    That the application be permitted subject to the undermentioned conditions:

(i)               Submission of reserved matters

(ii)              Time limit condition

(iii)            Approved plans

(iv)            Restriction on building height to no more than max 2.5

storeys

(v)             Building to be for student accommodation only

(vi)            Construction Environmental Management Plan (CEMP)

(vii)          Construction hours restriction

(viii)         Reserved matters application to include details of

delineation of car parking spaces

Members requested that a note be made that, were an application for variation of a condition in respect of parking, that it be flagged up to the Ward Councillors.  In addition, that any final designs be made known to the Committee.

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Resolved:    (i)       That the information be received.

(ii)      That an update report be brought to committee in two months’ time.

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There was no Urgent Business.

To resolve that the public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the following item(s) because it is likely that there will be a disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraphs 1,2 and 3 in Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972.

There was no confidential business.