Agenda and minutes

To receive any apologies for absence and notices of substitutions from Members.

Apologies for absence were received from Councillors W Armitage, J Barry, E Hill,     C Hunt, T Reader, and J Ridgway.

The meeting was advised that Councillor Gomez Reaney would act as a substitute for Cllr Armitage, Cllr Barker would act as substitute for Cllr Hill, Cllr Jones would act as substitute for Cllr Hunt and Cllr Birkin would act as substitute for Cllr Reader.

Members are requested to declare the existence and nature of any disclosable pecuniary interests and/or other interests, not already on their register of interests, in any item on the agenda and withdraw from the meeting at the appropriate time.

Members were requested to declare the existence and nature of any disclosable pecuniary interests and/or other interests, not already on their register of interests, in any item on the agenda and withdraw from the meeting at the appropriate time.

Cllr Ruff, Chair of the Committee and Cllr Antcliff, Vice Chair of the Committee both declared an interest in the first application to be considered, 19/00376/OL and indicated that they would withdraw from the meeting for period when the application was being considered by the Committee. They both made it clear that they would neither take part in the discussions nor participate in the Committee’s decision on the application. Cllr Ruff explained that she had registered to speak in opposition to the application.  Once she had done that, she would leave the Chamber. Cllr Antcliff  informed Members that she would now leave the meeting until the Committee had concluded its consideration of the application.     

In the absence of the Chair and Vice-Chair, Committee agreed that Cllr Alan Powell, chair the meeting during its consideration of Application 19/00376/OL

Report No PM/8/19-20 – Development Management Applications

The Committee considered Report No PM/8/19-20/AK of the Planning Manager – Development Management together with visual presentations for each of the following applications.

            NED/19/00376/OL

            The report to Committee explained that an outline planning application had been received for residential development of up to 67 dwellings on land at rear of 263 Nethermoor Road, Wingerworth for Land Allocation Ltd. The application had been referred to the Committee by Cllr Windley, who had raised concern about it.

            The Committee was directed to the recent late comments/update report which had been issued the afternoon prior to the meeting.

            Two objectors exercised their right to attend the meeting and speak against the application. One of these was Cllr Ruff, who spoke in her capacity as a ward Member and then left the meeting.

            The agent nor the applicant exercised their right to attend the meeting and to speak in support of the application.   No supporters spoke in favour of the application.

            Members were informed that only access to the site would be determined by this outline application. Other matters would be dealt with at a later date, if the outline application was approved.

            Committee considered the application having regard to vehicular access to Derby Road being acceptable, along with wider highway implications in terms of capacity.  In addition, there was a need to determine whether or not the principle of development was acceptable having regard to the policy background to the application (the Development Plan, extant and evolving) and the wider visual impact of the development on the character of the area, along with other relevant planning matters including, impacts on ecology, protected species, drainage and residential amenity.

           The Committee raised concerns about the environmental implications of the proposed development on the potential harm which it might cause, by building in the countryside and in an area which currently separates two communities.

           Members also expressed concern about the possible impact on the transport infrastructure. In this context, specific concerns were raised about the impact of the proposed development on road safety and how it would add, still further to the growth in traffic using volumes on the already congested A61 Derby Road.

            At the conclusion of their discussion, the Committee:

          RESOLVED – That officer recommendations on application number NED/19/00376/OL be rejected for the following reasons:

(a)       The application is considered unacceptable as the site is located in open countryside that performs the purpose of ensuring separation of local settlements. In this case, the proposal would result in the development of a green field that would have an overriding environmental harm that significantly and demonstrably outweighs any benefits deriving from the scheme, contrary to policies GS1, GS6 and NE1 of the North East Derbyshire Local Plan, Policies SS1, SS9, SDC3 of the North East Derbyshire Local Plan (2014-2034) and policy W2 of the Wingerworth Parish Neighbourhood Plan 2016-2033 and the NPPF when read as a whole.

(b)       The application is considered unacceptable as the proposal would access directly onto the already congested A61 where  ...  view the full minutes text for item 174.

To consider any other matter which the Chair is of the opinion should be considered as a matter of urgency.

There was no urgent business.