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MAIDSTONE BOROUGH COUNCIL

 

PLANNING COMMITTEE

 

15 FEBRUARY 2024

 

REPORT OF THE HEAD OF DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT

 

DEFERRED ITEMS

 

The following applications stand deferred from previous meetings of the Planning Committee.  The Head of Development Management will report orally at the meeting on the latest situation.

 

APPLICATION

 

DATE DEFERRED

64.        21/503412/FULL - ERECTION OF 8 NO. FULL MASTS AND 4 NO. LOWER MASTS FLOODLIGHTING TO SERVE THE SPORTS PITCHES - MARDEN SPORTS CLUB, MAIDSTONE ROAD, MARDEN, KENT

 

Deferred to:

 

Assess the cumulative impact of the existing lighting, the lighting for the proposed padel courts and the lighting associated with this application;

 

Seek night-time photographs to see what the existing lighting looks like;

 

Seek details of a landscape scheme;

 

Seek details of the boundary treatments, including the acoustic fencing (height etc.) and bund to assess the visual impact and also to understand the planning status of the bund and fencing;

 

Seek up to date ecological information (including a bat survey) and an assessment of biodiversity net gain; and

 

Seek more information about the light spectrum proposed as the red end of the spectrum is less intrusive.

 

19 October 2023 adjourned to 26 October 2023

65.        23/503671/FULL – DEMOLTIOION OF EXISTING HOUSE AND OUTBUILDING. ERECTION OF 2 NO. DWELLINGS INCLUDING EXTENSION OF EXISTING CROSSOVER AND ASSOCIATED PARKING - MONTROSE, SUTTON ROAD, LANGLEY, MAIDSTONE, KENT

Deferred to:

 

Negotiate with the applicant regarding the architectural quality of the development and to retain the landscape character;

Seek a condition that retains cordwood from tree felling;

Amend condition 5 (biodiversity) to seek a biodiversity net gain of 20%; and

Amend condition 6 (ecology) to remove the word ‘not’ from the first sentence, to read “The development hereby approved shall only proceed (including site clearance), in accordance with the advice in the Preliminary Ecological Appraisal (Arbtech, May 2023).”

 

14 December 2023