Agenda and minutes

The minutes of the meeting to be held on 21st September 2023 are to follow.

The minutes of the meeting held on 21st September 2023 were confirmed as a correct record and signed.

To deal with the following question on notice, submitted under Question on Notice Procedure 12.8.

Estate Plan for the Garendon Park SUE and associated matters

Question submitted by Max Hunt.

Mr M. Hunt – Estate Plan for the Garendon Park SUE and associated matters

1. The Estate Plan for the Garendon Park SUE was supposed to be agreed before the first house was occupied; how many houses have been occupied and when will the Plan be agreed and published?

2. Which other trigger points have been missed if any and which are due soon?

3. Many other features of this development are required to be completed (or triggered) according to the number of houses occupied.  One of these is the public access to the Garendon Listed Park and Gardens, I am aware that one footpath has opened (alongside an old sign prohibiting access!) but when will access be opened more widely and will there be safeguards for the monuments?

4. Who will be constructing the cycleway referred in the S106 Agreement Schedule 4 Sections 5 and when is this likely to join up with the main estate road?”

Mr Hunt was not in attendance at the meeting to ask any supplementary questions as he had indicated he was satisfied with the response to the question which was published on 27^th September 2023 within the Extras Report.

The following disclosures were made:

(i)              by Councillors Charles, Fryer, Lawrence, Lennie, Monk, Northage,  O’Neill, Palmer and Snartt, in respect of planning application P/22/1990/2 (Land to the rear of 49 and 51 Radmoor Road, Loughborough) as recipients of correspondence in relation to this application, but all came to the meeting with open minds.

(ii)             by Councillors Charles, Fryer, Lawrence, Lennie, Monk, Northage, O’Neill and Snartt, in respect of planning application P/23/0668/2 (Land at Watermead Business Park, Thurmaston) as recipients of correspondence in relation to this application, but all came to the meeting with open minds.

(iii)           by Councillor Palmer, in respect of planning application P/23/0668/2 (Land at Watermead Business Park, Thurmaston) as a resident and objector and was speaking.  She sat in the public gallery for the duration of the item.

(iv)           by Councillor Snartt, in respect of planning application P/22/1852/2 (Land adjacent to Heatherfield Cottage, Benscliffe Road, Newtown Linford) as a Ward Councillor, but had made no comments on the application and came to the meeting with an open mind.

(v)             by Councillor Lawrence, in respect of planning application P/23/0668/2 (Land at Watermead Business Park, Thurmaston) who had a conversation with a speaker on the item in which the application was mentioned, however merits of the application had not been discussed and he came to the meeting with an open mind.

(vi)           by Councillor Cory-Lowsley, in respect of planning application P/22/1990/2 (Land to the rear of 49 and 51 Radmoor Road, Loughborough) as a Ward Councillor, but had made no comments on the application and came to the meeting with an open mind.

The list of planning applications to be considered at the meeting is appended.

Reports of the Head of Planning and Growth, setting out planning applications for P/22/2096/2, P/22/1852/2, P/23/0668/2, P/19/1410/2 and P/22/1990/2 were submitted (item 5 on the agenda filed with these minutes).  An additional report in respect of applications P/22/1852/2, P/23/0668/2 and P/19/1410/2 was also submitted (also filed with these minutes).

There was a late request to speak from Ms Eleanor Overton, in respect of application P/22/1852/2 and the Chair and members of the Committee were in agreement for the request to be granted.

In accordance with the procedure for public speaking at meetings, the following objector, applicants or their representatives and representative of a parish council attended the meeting and expressed their views:

(i)       Ms Eleanor Overton (agent) in respect of application P/22/1852/2;

(ii)      Ms Julie Palmer and Ms Louise Hall (objectors) in respect of application P/23/0668/2;

(iii)      Mr Steve Lewis-Roberts (agent) in respect of application P/23/0668/2;

(iv)     Ms Jacqueline Jackson (agent on behalf of the applicant) in respect of application P/19/1410/2;

(v)      Mr Matthew Sharpe (objector) in respect of application P/22/1990/2;

(vi)     Mr Jonathan Weekes (on behalf of the applicant) in respect of application P/22/1990/2.

In accordance with the procedure for Borough Councillors speaking at Plans Committee meetings, the following Councillors attended the meeting and expressed their views:

(i)       Councillor Infield (on behalf of call-in) in respect of application P/23/0668/2;

(ii)      Councillor Haynes (on behalf of call-in) in respect of application P/19/1410/2.

RESOLVED that in respect of application P/22/2096/2 (Land off Moor Lane, Loughborough) planning permission be refused for reasons set out in the report of the Head of Planning and Growth.

RESOLVED that in respect of application P/22/1852/2 (Land adjacent to Heatherfield Cottage, Benscliffe Road, Newtown Linford) planning permission be granted subject to completion of Section 106 planning obligations and planning conditions for the reasons set out in the report of the Head of Planning and Growth and amendments to Recommendation B as set out in the Extras report.

RESOLVED that the application be deferred in order that the applicant be invited to consider amendments to the scheme including the re-consideration of the in-filling of part of the lake in ‘Zone B’ as specified by the application.

The meeting was adjourned at the close of this item for 10 minutes.

RESOLVED that in respect of application P/19/1410/2 (Barkby Firs Ambulance Station, Melton Road, Syston) planning permission be granted subject to planning conditions for the reasons set out in the report of the Head of Planning and Growth and the amendment to Recommendation B as set out in the Extras report, including revisions to Condition 14 as presented.

A typing error was noted in Recommendation A and should have stated that biodiversity compensation was set out at section 9.7.4.

RESOLVED that in respect of application P/22/1990/2 (Land to the rear of 49 and 51 Radmoor Road, Loughborough) planning permission be granted subject to completion of Section 106 planning obligations and planning conditions for the reasons set out in the report of the Head of Planning and Growth.

A list of applications determined under powers delegated to officers for the period from 12th September 2023 to 19th September 2023 is attached.

A list of applications determined under powers delegated to officers for the period from 12th September 2023 to 19th September 2023 was submitted (item 6 on the agenda filed with these minutes).