Minutes of the meeting of the Development and Planning Committee

held in The Stevenson Centre on Monday 24^th April 2006

Present            Councillors          Mrs.C.J.Baker                       Chairman

                                                        D.C.Allen

                                                        Mrs.C.Beer-Todd

                                                        M.Fryer

                                                        Mrs F. Jackson

                                                        Mrs. P. White

                  Council Manager        M.J. Fitt

1)        Apologies for Absence

           Apologies were received from Councillor J.R.A.Sayers

2)       Declarations of Interest, Gifts or Hospitality

           None

3)        Correspondence

a)     Suffolk County Council: Replacement Street Light

Agreed to RECOMMEND to Council that the street light in Oak Road be replaced at a cost of £905.63 plus EDF energy costs.

Councillors were reminded that from the 2006/7 budget of £2,250 allocated for new/replacement street lights, £525 had already been spent and this takes the total to £1,430.63.

b)     Babergh District Council: Land at Pot Kiln Road

BDC had previously advised that the land in Pot Kiln Road would not be used again as a builders compound. They had followed this, almost immediately, with a letter to say that it would be used again as a compound for the remaining work on the estate. This Council had therefore written requesting that, at the end of the work, the land be gifted to GCPC as public open space. BDC now advised that officers had identified the land as a potential development site and they would be unwilling to transfer it to GCPC.

The land was not listed in the Local Plan for development and the Committee was unanimously against this use.

AGREED to pursue this matter with GC District Councillors, to ascertain whether there are any plans for development and to continue to seek to have the site made ‘public open space’.

4)         New Planning Applications

           i)     B/06/00343/AGD2/DB – New Farm, Upper Tye  

            Notification under Part 6 of schedule 2 of the Town and Country Plann

            (General Permitted Development) Order 1995 – Erection of steel framed

            building

            Recommended – APPROVAL

     ii)    B/06/00595/FHA/RM – 46 Kempson Drive

            Conversion of garage into additional living accommodation. Erection of

            single-storey front extension

            Recommended – APPROVAL          

    iii)    B/06/00523/FHA/GP – 33 Layzell Croft 

            Erection of a rear conservatory

            Recommended – APPROVAL

iv)    B/06/00569/FHA/DB – Prospect House, Prospect Hill

        Erection of tennis court and 2.75cm high chain link fencing

                    Recommended – APPROVAL

            However, a condition of planning approval must be that flood lights will not

            be permitted to be erected now or any time in the future.

v)     B/05//00656/FHA/GP – Amos Cottage, 190 Bures Road 

                   Erection of two-storey and single storey rear extensions

                   (AMENDMENT)

                   Recommended – APPROVAL

5)         Items Brought Forward

a)     Anglia Estate Improvement (Now North Cornard Regeneration Group)

The Chairman reported that two remaining residents of Clibbon House were disturbed by the plans to demolish the building and were unsure as to their future residency.

AGREED that Councillor White would raise the matter at the forthcoming meeting of the Group on 27^th April and request the due regard is had to the welfare of the residents and that they are kept fully in the picture concerning developments.

   Meeting closed at 7.30pm