Agenda item
Full Application - Erection of an Affordable Dwelling to Meet a Local Need at Green Farm, Aldwark
Minutes:
This application had been deferred at the Planning Committee of 9 October 2015 in accordance with Standing Orders, which state:
1.48:
(1) Where following consideration of any matter a Committee or a Sub-Committee is proposing to make a decision which would be a departure from Policy and/or the Officer recommendation (other than minor acceptable exceptions), final determination of the matter shall be deferred until the next meeting of the Committee or Sub-Committee. During the deferment, the relevant officers will prepare a further report for the Committee or Sub-Committee on their provisional views for consideration at the next meeting. The officers’ report will cover:
i. the policy implications e.g. whether the decision is a major departure from the development plan or other key policy
ii. the budget implications
iii. a risk assessment
iv. an assessment of the robustness of the provisional reasons, including recommendations on any conditions
(2) The Senior Manager advising a Committee or Sub-Committee shall, through the Chair of the meeting, inform the meeting either before or immediately after a vote is taken that this Standing Order applies to that decision and that only a recommendation to a future meeting of the Committee or Sub-Committee can be made at that time.
The officer stated that the Authority’s Policy Team did not agree with the term “acceptable exception” in the concluding paragraph of the report and considered that approval of the application would be a departure from the Authority’s Planning Policy.
The Director of Planning noted that all applications approved contrary to policy were logged and monitored through the Annual Monitoring Report to inform any future review of policy.
Amended plans had been submitted showing the single chimney centrally placed on the roof of the proposed dwelling. The officer updated the wording of condition 2 by replacing the word “amended” with “submitted”. He confirmed that Aldwark is not a named settlement in the Authority’s Core Strategy Development Plan, therefore should the affordable dwelling become available in the future, suitable occupants would be sought from neighbouring settlements/parishes in a cascade process. The officer stated that the proposed dwelling would have a separate curtilage and not be tied to the farm.
The recommendation with the amended wording in condition 2 was moved, seconded, voted upon and carried.
RESOLVED:
That the revised application be APPROVED subject to prior entry into a s.106 legal agreement that would maintain the proposed house as an affordable house to meet local need in perpetuity naming the applicant as the intended first occupant and subject to the following conditions/modifications:
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(i) The programme and methodology of site investigation and recording and the nomination of a competent person(s) or organisation to undertake the agreed works
(ii) The programme for post-investigation assessment and subsequent analysis, publication and dissemination and deposition of resulting material. This part of the condition shall not be discharged until these elements have been fulfilled in accordance with the programme set out in the WSI.
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Supporting documents:
- (NP/DDD/0515/0425, P.2656, 422786/357367, 30/10/2015/CF/KW), item 140/15 PDF 234 KB
- Site Plan, item 140/15 PDF 2 MB