Agenda and minutes

Councillor Dee declared a personal non-prejudicial interest in Agenda item 4, Gloucester Football Club, as he had been working with other Councillors and Club Directors on an entirely separate matter.

Councillor Toleman declared a personal interest in Agenda item 4.

To approve as a correct record the minutes of the meeting held on 2 September 2014.

Please note: these minutes will be circulated separately.

The minutes of the meeting held on 2 September 2014 were confirmed and signed by the Chair as a correct record.

Person to contact:             Development Control Manager    

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The Principal Planning Officer presented the report which detailed an outline application for the redevelopment of Gloucester City Football Club comprising the erection of a replacement football stadium, associated engineering works involving the raising of ground levels, ancillary facilities, access and car parking (Means of access and siting not reserved) at Gloucester City Football Club.

She referred Members to the late material which included an advisory letter from the Gloucestershire Constabulary, an additional letter from General Service Fabrications Ltd re-iterating concerns about flooding and highways issues and a representation from Cory Environmental expressing concerns regarding the potential of flooding to the culvert and access road to the Household Recycling Centre (HRC). She advised Members that the applicants’ hydrological consultant, (JBA) had confirmed that the Cory access road and the culvert were both located some considerable distance from the zone impacted by the proposal. The extent of modelling and results show that there is no impact on the access road or culvert under the Cory access road as they are well away from the impacted zone. She also drew attention to the agent’s comments set out in the late material in relation to paragraphs 1.3 and 6.15 in the report.

She advised that the Environment Agency had raised no objection subject to a £75,000 contribution to local flood alleviation measures and she confirmed that the Council’s Drainage Engineer and the Local Highway Authority raised no objection to the application.

She drew Members’ attention to the recommended revision to Condition 12 and the revised recommendation of the Development Control Manager in the late material.

Mike Dunston, Chairman of Gloucester City Football Club addressed the Committee in support of the application.

Mr Dunston advised that he had been a City supporter for over 30 years and had been volunteering at the Club for over 20 years. He believed that the application represented a major milestone for both the Club and the City.

The Club had been away for seven years and in that time had suffered loss of revenue and the lack of a solid operating base together with an erosion of the fan base.

He advised that much time had been spent in the preparation of reports since the application submitted in September 2012 and the current application represented an additional two years’ work.

He noted that neither the Environment Agency nor the County Highways section had raised objection and that the Club had been consistently advised that should that be the case then planning permission would be forthcoming.

He took pride in the fact that the Club remained afloat for seven years without a home ground and believed that the application represented opportunities for all including the children of the City.

He stated that approval would bring certainty for the future of the Club, who had done what had been asked of them in 2012, and he asked Members to approve the application.

Jeremy Chamberlayne, Co-ordinator of Vale of Gloucester Flood Alleviation Group addressed the Committee regarding the application.  ...  view the full minutes text for item 34.

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The Development Control Manager presented the report which detailed an application for the demolition of existing buildings and construction of new facility for commercial vehicle repair and sales centre at 26, Hempsted Lane.

He advised that there had been no objections from the statutory consultees or members of the public.

The Chair supported the application which would result in smarter buildings on the site and would present the Council with an opportunity to impose appropriate conditions.

Councillor Lewis believed that the applicant had been concerned about some of the requirements of the conditions proposed but he believed that implementing these could be to the applicant’s advantage when the surrounding area was developed for housing.

Councillor McLellan believed that the proposal would bring improvement to the area but asked if the drainage issues identified at paragraph 6.18 of the report had been addressed by a suitable condition. He was advised that Condition 5 required a Sustainable Urban Drainage Scheme which sought 20% betterment.

Councillor Hobbs was advised that vehicles would be prevented from exiting using the eastern access point (Condition 11).

RESOLVED that permission be granted subject to the conditions in the report.

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The Principal Planning Officer presented the report which detailed an application for the erection of one industrial unit containing up to three individual units (Class B1/B8) with associated servicing area, car parking and landscaping. (Revised layout of Unit G previously granted planning permission under ref. 08/00169/FUL) at Unit G, The Aquarius Centre, Edison Close.

She referred to the late material which corrected paragraph 1.5 of the report to state that the building would be located to the east of the previously approved Unit G.

Councillor Hobbs called for a condition to require that the rolling doors should remain closed at all times when not being used for the protection of residents’ amenity. He was advised that the doors were not located on the elevation facing Naas Lane and that an acoustic fence would be provided. The application was for Use Class B1 (light industrial) and Class B8 (storage and distribution). B1 use was light industrial and any use creating noise, smoke, dust or smell would fall outside that use class.

The Solicitor suggested that such a condition could be imposed to ensure that the door remained closed unless ingress or egress should be required. He advised that such a condition would be difficult to enforce.

Councillor Chatterton noted the condition prohibiting alarm boxes on the elevation facing Naas Lane and called for this to be extended to include air conditioning or other equipment likely to generate noise.

He also questioned the length of the acoustic fence shown on the plan and was advised that, notwithstanding the details submitted, Condition 3 required the submission, approval and implementation of a scheme for boundary treatments including the acoustic fence.

RESOLVED that permission be granted subject to an additional condition to require that doors should remain closed except when ingress or egress was required and the amendment of condition 19 to include air conditioning equipment.

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The Principal Planning Officer presented the report which detailed a hybrid planning application for the variation of conditions 7 and 9 of planning permission 53102/01/OUT to enable the reconfiguration of Unit 3 (1279 sqm) and Unit 4 (459 sqm), removal of mezzanine within Unit 4 and to extend the goods to be sold from the resultant units, together with the provision of a new 57.6 sqm mezzanine floor for non-trading purposes within reconfigured Unit 4 (total of 516 sqm) at Units 3 and 4, Eastern Avenue.

She advised Members that Iceland had been identified as potential occupiers of Unit 4 but no potential occupier had been identified for Unit 3. She referred Members to the late material which contained an additional representation from the agent.

Councillor McLellan was advised that the reference to ‘Barnwood Road at Hucclecote’ in paragraph 5.10 should refer to Silverdale Parade.

Councillor Smith noted that Iceland sold items such as nappies and cleaning materials. She was advised that a small number of ancillary products was normally acceptable.

The Chair believed that the proposal was to be preferred to the existing unrestricted Class A1 use and that granting permission would be a better position to protect the city centre.

Councillor Noakes supported the application as she believed that there had been too many empty units in Barnwood for far too long.

Councillor Hobbs asked for the provision of an appropriate number of suitably located mother and child and disabled parking spaces. He was advised that the car park did not form part of the current application but Officers would pass on the request to the applicants.

RESOLVED that permission be granted subject to the conditions in the report.

To consider a schedule of applications determined under delegated powers during the month of July 2014.

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Consideration was given to a schedule of applications determined under delegated powers during the month of July 2014.

RESOLVED that the schedule be noted.

Tuesday, 4 November 2014 at 18.00hrs.

Tuesday, 4 November 2014 at 18.00hrs.