Issue - meetings

Outline Planning Application (with all matters reserved except access) comprising a convenience foodstore and a parade of 4no convenience facilities (Use Class E) and associated outdoor terrace area.  Erection of retirement living apartments (use class C3) or residential care accommodation (use class C2) of approx. 60 bed spaces. Erection of 4no self build residential plots (Use Class C3). Highway access to/from the A1104 Low Lane via Welwyn Road and Melandra Road connecting to northeast boundary, with associated landscaping, open space and associated works.

Prior to Committee debate the Principal Planning Officer highlighted to Members of the Planning Committee that additional information had been requested from Natural England.

It was explained that to achieve nutrient neutrality the applicant had proposed the purchasing of nutrient credits from a registered third-party credit provider at a site within the Tees Valley catchment area, which had resulted in Natural England requesting additional information before the appropriate assessment could be fully signed off. 

As the principle had already been accepted by Natural England it was suggested that Members could consider the application and delegate the final decision to the Planning Services Manager once the appropriate assessment had been fully signed off, or alternatively Members could propose to defer the application until the assessment had been undertaken. The applicant had expressed they would have no issue should a deferral be the preferred approach.

A motion was proposed and seconded that the application be deferred.

A vote took place and the motion was carried.

RESOLVED that application 24/0977/OUT  Little Maltby Farm, Low Lane, High Leven be deferred for the reasons as stated above.