Minutes:
34.1 Item 7A
Application DC/21/00641
Proposal Submission of Details (Reserved Matters) in relation to outline planning permission DC/18/00723. Appearance, Landscaping, Layout and Scale for the erection of up to 51 dwellings, highway improvements including widening of Turkeyhall Lane, provision of Public Open Space and associated infrastructure.
Site Location BACTON – Land to the East of Turkeyhall Lane, Bacton, Suffolk
Applicant Flagship Group
34.2 The Case Officer presented the application to the Committee outlining the proposal before Members including: the proximity of the site to listed buildings, the location of the affordable housing, the public open space, the contents of the tabled papers, and the officer recommendation of approval as detailed in the Committee Report.
34.3 The Case Officer responded to Members’ questions on issues including: the pedestrian access on the site, the proposed pumping station, the surveillance of the public open space, and the status of the ecological report.
34.4 Members considered representation from the Parish Council representative David Chambers.
34.5 The Parish Council representative responded to Members’ questions on issues including: whether there was a consultation with the developers.
34.6 Members considered representation from the Agent Jake Lambert.
34.7 The Agent and the Applicant, Peter Waplington, responded to Members’ questions on issues including: the location of the affordable housing, the distance of the apartment block from the existing dwellings, and the size of the public open space.
34.8 Members considered representation from the Ward Member Councillor Andrew Mellen.
34.9 Members debated the application on issues including: the landscaping, layout, design, the public open space, and the proximity of the site to existing dwellings.
34.10 Councillor Harry Richardson proposed that the application be approved as set out in the officer recommendation with the additional condition of:
- A new ecological survey be conducted
- A condition on the hedge heights along the public open space
- The removal of rights for walls along the South-East open space.
34.11 Councillor Timothy Passmore seconded the motion.
34.12 Following comment from the applicant: “After listening to the way that Members have spoken about this today and feeling about what Councillor Turner raised about redesign would it be a motion for a second deferral to enable us to go back and discuss this.”
33.13 Councillors Harry Richardson and Timothy Passmore withdrew their motion.
33.14 A break was taken 11:11am – 11:30 am.
33.15 Councillor Timothy Passmore proposed that the application be deferred for the reason as follows:
- That the application be deferred to consider all maters raised in debate, design, ecology with particular regard to the apartment block to the south
33.16 Councillor John Field seconded this motion.
33.17 By a unanimous vote.
33.18 It was RESOLVED: -
That the application be deferred to consider all maters raised in debate, design, ecology with particular regard to the apartment block to the south.
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