Issue - meetings

            Public Speaker: ECE Planning on behalf of the applicant

            (In consideration of this application, Councillor Mrs Yeates stated that, in her role as Chairman of Bersted Parish Council’s Planning Committee at the time, she had previously heard an earlier application in Janauary 2018 which related to this one.  She did not think she necessarily had a prejudicial interest due to the time lapse but acknowledged that it could be seen that she had as she had expressed  her opinions at that time in relation to the earlier application – she would therefore take no part in the debate or vote on the matter and, as this was a virtual meeting, was subsequently placed in the waiting room whilst it was considered.)

            BE/137/19/RES – Application for approval of phase 2 reserved matters following outline permission BE/63/17/OUT (as amended by BE/131/18/PL) for 20 No. dwellings, The Cottage, Shripney Road, Bognor Regis

            The Committee received a comprehensive presentation from the Planning Team Leader on the detail of the report, together with the officer’s written report update setting out the following:-

·         Additional Parish Council response of objection

·         Council’s Tree Officer’s response and addition of two further conditions

·         Council’s Drainage Engineer’s response

·         New/amended conditions – Condition 1 updated to show revised landscape drawings

·         Conditions 2 & 3 added in response to Tree Officer’s requirement

·         Condition 7 added to require future approval of materials as originally omitted

In opening the discussion, the provision of car ports rather than garages was welcomed and it was proposed that a condition should be added to any approval to require the removal of Permitted Development Rights  (PDR) to ensure they remained as car ports rather than be converted to garages in the future.

Following Member comment with regard to the design of the development being unsympathetic to the character of the area and drainage concerns, the Planning Team Leader addressed these at the meeting.  He also stated that, should Members so wish, Condition 13 could be duly amended to include “no car port attached to a dwelling can be amended or altered in any way”, which was formally proposed and seconded.

The Committee turned to the amendment to amend the wording of Condition 10 (as set out in the agenda and prior to addition of conditions detailed in the update report) to not allow changes to car ports and, on being put to the vote, was declared carried.  The Committee then

RESOLVED

That the application be approved as detailed in the report and the officer report update, subject to amendment of new Condition 13 to include wording to not allow changes to car ports.