Agenda item

The Planning Officer reminded Members that a previous planning application for a similar development had been refused due to conflict of policy by Planning Committee at the meeting on 8 September 2023.

The Planning Officer reported on the changes made to the original application. The application has been decreased in a modest way and passing places have been included on the lane up to the site. The Planning Officer outlined the reasons for refusal as set out in the report.

The following spoke under the public participation at meetings scheme:

·         Cllr Simon Ripton, Supporter – Statement submitted and read out by the Customer & Democratic Services Senior Adviser.

·         Cllr Peter O’Brien, Supporter – Statement submitted and read out by the Customer & Democratic Services Senior Adviser.

·         Sir Richard Fitzherbert, Supporter

·         Roger Yarwood, Agent

Members discussed the amendments to the plan and queried where the shower and toilet facilities would now be sited having removed these facilities from the individual pods in order to reduce the pod size.  The agent stated that there are suitable existing buildings already in the complex which could be used for these facilities or one of the pods and would accept a condition for the detail to be agreed.

Further to this clarification Members were minded to go against Officer recommendation to refuse this application and approve the application on the basis that was a need for appropriate accommodation at an affordable price level within the Peak District National Park. Members also noted that the site was particularly well screened by woodland so not visible from anywhere outside the site itself.

A motion to approve the application was proposed, seconded, voted on and carried.

Cllr Potter requested that her vote against the application be recorded.

RESOLVED:

That the application be APPROVED subject to the following conditions:-

1.    The development hereby permitted shall be begun within 3 years from the date of this permission.

2.    The development hereby permitted shall not be carried out otherwise than in complete accordance with the approved drawings ‘Pod with Cycle Store’ and ‘Block Plan’ subject to the following conditions or modification.

3.    Prior to first occupation of any part of the development hereby permitted, the proposed passing places on Riley Lane, as demonstrated on drawing no. R.B22.01 shall have been constructed in accordance with a detailed design which shall have first been submitted to and approved in writing by the National Park Authority.

4.    Prior to first occupation of the camping pods, in accordance with dwg no.R.B.22.01, space shall have been provided within the application site for the parking of 8-vehicles and manoeuvring of visitors, service and delivery vehicles, laid out, surfaced and maintained throughout the life of the development free from any impediment to its designated use.

5.    Before the commencement of any operations on site, a scheme for the disposal of highway surface water shall be submitted to and approved by the National Park Authority. The development shall thereafter not be carried out other than in accordance with the approved details which shall be implemented before the first occupation of any part of the development. 

6.    Prior to first use occupation of any part of the development hereby permitted, full details of shower and toilet facilities and associated drainage and foul sewerage (including location, specification and external appearance) shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the National Park Authority. The development shall thereafter not be carried out other than in accordance with the approved details which shall be implemented before the first occupation of any part of the development.

7.    No camping pod, building, tent or caravan shall be sited or erected anywhere within the application site other than in accordance with the plots identified on the submitted ‘Block Plan’ and ‘Pod with Cycle Store’.

8.    No camping pod shall be replaced with any other building, structure or caravan at any time.

9.    The camping pods hereby permitted shall not be occupied other than for short term holiday letting purposes ancillary to Top Riley and the development and existing property shall remain as a single planning unit.  The camping pods shall not be occupied by any one person for a period exceeding 28 days per calendar year.  The owner shall maintain a register of occupants for each calendar year which shall be  made for inspection by the Local Planning Authority upon request.

10.  Notwithstanding the provision of the Town and Country Planning General Permitted Development Order 2015 (or any order revoking or re-enacting that Order) no development required by the conditions of a site licence for the time being in force under the 1960 Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act shall be carried out or erected on the site without an application for planning permission having first been made to and approved in writing by the National Park Authority.