Agenda item

Cllr A Hart declared a personal and prejudicial interest as he realised that he knew the applicant so left the room during consideration of this item.

Cllr L Roberts declared an interest as she was Chair of an adjoining Parish Council.

The Planning Officer reported that there was one amendment to the report on page 65 which should read “That by virtue of the distance between the site and the main built up area of Upper Hulme”.

The Officer then introduced the proposal .  This application was a re-submission of an application made in 2016 to remove the holiday condition, to allow the building to be converted and used as a permanent open market house.  The applicant had stated that due to the cost of restoring the building and the loss of grant funding to complete work inside, the building was no longer viable as a holiday let.

The following spoke under the Public Participation at Meetings Scheme

·         Mr Rob Duncan – Agent

·         Cllr Mrs Gill Heath – Supporter

It was noted that consideration had been given to splitting the property to use it as affordable housing; however given the work required to carry out the works and the impact this would have on the character and appearance of the building, this was also not appropriate.

Members considered that as the conversion of the building had not been completed and the applicant had demonstrated that in order to achieve the conservation of the building and to ensure it has a long-term sustainable use, an open market dwelling would be in accordance with policy. A motion to approve the removal of the condition contrary to the Officer recommendation was moved, seconded, put to the vote and carried.

RESOLVED:

To  APPROVE the removal of Condition 4 in Planning Decision NP/SM/0106/0032 restricting the occupancy of the application building to short let holiday residential use subject to repeating the other conditions from the previous approval and to an additional condition removing Permitted Development Rights.

Cllr A Hart returned to the meeting at 12.40pm following consideration of this item.