Agenda and minutes

Agenda and minutes

Venue: Committee Room 2, at the Council Offices, Southfields, Loughborough. View directions

Items
No. Item

5.

Minutes of the Previous Meeting pdf icon PDF 79 KB

To receive and note the minutes of the previous meeting.

Minutes:

The minutes of the meeting of the Committee held on 11th September 2019 were received and noted.

6.

Questions Under Other Committee Procedures 12.8

Minutes:

No questions had been submitted.

7.

Disclosures of Pecuniary and Personal Interests

Minutes:

No disclosures of interest were made.

8.

Borough of Charnwood (Land at Ashby Road, Loughborough LE11 3QU) Tree Preservation Order 2019 pdf icon PDF 6 MB

A report of the Head of Strategic Support is attached.

Minutes:

Considered a report of the Head of Strategic Support setting out details of the Tree Preservation Order served on the above site, the objection received to the Order and the comments of the Head of Planning and Regeneration on the issues raised by the objection (item 5 on the agenda filed with these minutes).

 

Assisting with consideration of the report: Principal Solicitor.

 

Both the Head of Planning and Regeneration’s representatives and the objector attended the meeting to put forward their cases and answer the Committee’s questions.

 

The Committee considered this matter in accordance with the “Procedure for Considering Objections to Tree Preservation Orders” set out in the Council’s Constitution and on the agenda for this meeting.

 

RESOLVED that the Borough of Charnwood (Land at Ashby Road, Loughborough LE11 3QU) Tree Preservation Order 2019 be confirmed.

           

Reason

 

Having considered, in accordance with the procedure set out in the Council’s Constitution, the objection to the Order, the Committee considered that the reasons put forward for not protecting the trees did not outweigh the contribution they made to the amenity of the area and that the trees should therefore be protected.