All
Members except Councillor Vizzard stated that they had been
lobbied.
The
Committee considered the report and the urgent update report of the
Head of Planning and Development.
Mrs
Moore, an objector, and Mr Norton, for the applicant, addressed the
meeting.
It was
noted that Councillor Buller of Staplehurst Parish Council had registered to speak
on this application, but was unable to attend the meeting due to
illness. Details of the speech that
Councillor Buller intended to deliver on behalf of the Parish
Council had been circulated to Members of the Committee that
afternoon.
RESOLVED: That
permission be granted subject to the conditions set out in the
report, as amended/deleted by the urgent update report, and that
the Head of Planning and Development be given delegated powers to
include either a condition or a S106 Head of Term to ensure that,
in the interests of biodiversity and landscape, the boundary buffer
areas shown brown and hatched on the plan are preserved as
communal, strategic landscape buffers, not in private ownership,
and designed to allow access for maintenance as and when
required.
Voting: 8 –
For
1 – Against 0
– Abstentions