Agenda and minutes

Councillor Luker (Vice-Chairman) declared an Other Significant Interest in item 18/00126/WORKM (Stables at Leybourne Park Farm) on the grounds that the owner of the site was known to him.  To avoid potential bias he withdrew from the meeting and took no part in the discussion on this matter.

To confirm as a correct record the Minutes of the meeting of Area 2 Planning Committee held on 30 May 2018

RESOLVED:  That the Minutes of the meeting of the Area 2 Planning Committee held on 30 May 2018 be approved as a correct record and signed by the Chairman.

Introduction and Glossary

Decisions were taken on the following applications subject to the pre-requisites, informatives, conditions or reasons for refusal set out in the report of the Director of Planning, Housing and Environmental Health or in the variations indicated below.  Any supplementary reports were tabled at the meeting.

Members of the public addressed the meeting where the required notice had been given and their comments were taken into account by the Committee when determining the application.  Speakers are listed under the relevant planning application shown below. 

Demolition of existing office/workshop building and erection of 4 no. houses at G B Tatham and Co Ltd, 9 Willow Wents, Mereworth.

RESOLVED:  That planning permission be DEFERRED for a Members’ Site Inspection on the grounds that the proposal raised specific matters in respect of site characteristics, the importance of which could only be established by means of a site inspection.

[Speaker:  Andrew Wells – Mereworth Parish Council; Alison Currie, Steve Dunn, Richard Jones and Michael Chesterton – members of the public]

The Director of Planning, Housing and Environmental Health reported unauthorised development regarding the failure to provide car parking spaces within the front curtilage to serve 46 Fatherwell Avenue in accordance with the approved plans and as required by planning condition.  (Condition 5 of planning permission TM/16/01277/FL)

RESOLVED:  That an Enforcement Notice BE ISSUED to require the development to be laid out in accordance with plan number 016-003/007 Rev. B insofar as it related to the provision of parking spaces to serve the development, the wording of which to be agreed by the Director of Central Services.

The report of the Director of Planning, Housing and Environmental Health set out details of unauthorised development at the site which involved engineering and other operations, regrading of land, formation of bunds and appeared to be in connection with the laying of new road surfaces and/or areas of hardstanding.

RESOLVED:  That an Enforcement Notice BE ISSUED to seek the removal of the unauthorised roadway, hard surfacing and earth bunds and the reinstatement of the land to its former condition, the detailed wording of which to be agreed by the Director of Central Services.

The Chairman to move that the press and public be excluded from the remainder of the meeting during consideration of any items the publication of which would disclose exempt information.

There were no items considered in private.