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6.

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To approve as a correct record the Minutes of the meeting of this Committee held on 21 August 2019.

Minutes:

The Minutes of the meeting held on 21 August 2019 were approved as a true and correct record and signed by the Chairman.

7.

Declarations of Interest

To remind Members of the need to record the existence and nature of any personal, disclosable pecuniary or other registrable interests in items on the agenda, in accordance with the Members’ Code of Conduct.

Minutes:

There were no declarations of interest received.

8.

Schedule of Planning Applications

(Note: The Chairman, with the consent of the Committee, reserves the right to alter the order of business on this agenda based on public interest and participation in individual applications).

8.(1)

Application No. & Parish: 19/02144/FULD - Inglewood Farm Cottage, Templeton Road, Kintbury pdf icon PDF 57 KB

Proposal:

Section 73: Variation of Condition 2 - 'Approved plans' of previously approved application 19/00277/FULD: Replacement dwelling.

Location:

Inglewood Farm Cottage, Templeton Road, Kintbury

Applicant:

Mr and Mrs Selby

Recommendation:

For the District Planning Committee to determine the application.

 

Additional documents:

Minutes:

The Committee considered a report (Agenda Item 4(1)) concerning Planning Application 19/02144/FULD in respect of Section 73: Variation of Condition 2 – ‘Approved plans’ of previously approved application 19/00277/FULD: Replacement dwelling. Planning permission had been granted for a three bedroom, two storey brick finished rectangular shaped house, with plain tiled hipped roof. The current application was seeking to vary the approved plans through the addition of a two storey wing (at a lower ridge height than the main roof of the house) to provide additional living space at the ground floor level and an additional bedroom with en-suite bathroom.

Councillor Alan Law, Chairman, introduced the Officers in attendance at the meeting and stated that West Berkshire was a plan led authority. He confirmed that the role of the District Planning Committee was not to review or appeal the decision taken by the Western Area Planning Committee but to consider the application afresh. Councillor Tony Vickers queried whether the minute extract from the Western Area Planning Committee could be taken into consideration as they had yet to be approved by that Committee. The Chairman confirmed that they could be taken into consideration as they formed part of the background information. However, Committee Members, particularly those who had sat on the Western Area Planning Committee, should approach the application with a fresh mind. 

David Pearson, Team Leader – Development Control, introduced the application for which the Western Area Planning Committee on 5 February 2020 had resolved to grant planning permission contrary to Officer recommendation. The application, if approved, would be contrary to the provisions of the Development Plan and the guidance contained in the National Planning Policy Framework. It would conflict with the NPPF, policies ADPP1, ADPP5, CS14 and CS19 of the West Berkshire Core Strategy 2006-2026 and Policy C6 of the Housing Site Allocations DPD 2006-2026. The Development Control Manager had therefore requested that the application be referred to the District Planning Committee for determination.

Planning policy, both nationally and locally, was quite clear that a replacement dwelling in the countryside should be proportionate in size and scale to the existing dwelling, and should not have an adverse impact on the character and local distinctiveness of the rural area or heritage assets and its setting in the wider landscape. The report set out that the proposed dwelling would have a floorspace 253% larger than that of the original dwelling, and the approved house would be approximately 145% larger. The update sheet set out revised calculations for the percentage floor space and volume of the previously approved dwelling and the proposed dwelling to take into account the existing brick outbuilding 1.5 metres to the east of the existing house. A calculation had now been completed in relation to the increase in volume of the replacement dwelling which was approximately 460% and the proposed replacement dwelling would be approximately 600% larger. The update sheet also clarified calculations in respect of length, width and roof height. It was noted that the application site as  ...  view the full minutes text for item 8.(1)