Issue - meetings

All Members except Councillors Butler, Collins, Hogg and J A Wilson stated that they had been lobbied.

The Committee considered the report and the urgent update report of the Head of Planning.

Mr Tice, an objector, Councillor Hewitt of Bredhurst Parish Council (against) and Mrs Hales, the applicant, addressed the meeting.

RESOLVED:  That subject to the expiry of the consultation period and the receipt of no representations raising new issues material to the decision, the Head of Planning be given delegated powers to grant permission subject to the conditions and informatives set out in the report, as amended by the urgent update report, and the additional conditions set out in the urgent update report with the amendment of condition 4 as follows:-

Notwithstanding the details submitted on drawing no. 2022-005 Rev A received 16/07/12, no development shall take place until there has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority a scheme of landscaping, using indigenous species, which shall include a tree protection plan and the provision of a native hedge to the front boundary.  The scheme shall be designed using the principles established in the Council’s adopted Landscape Character Assessment and Landscape Guidelines.  The approved protection measures shall be implemented before any equipment, machinery or materials are brought onto the site and shall be maintained until all equipment, machinery and surplus materials have been removed from the site.  Nothing shall be stored or placed, nor fires lit, within any of the areas protected in accordance with this condition.  The siting of barriers/ground protection shall not be altered, nor ground levels changed, nor excavations made within these areas without the written consent of the Local Planning Authority.

Reason:  No such details have been submitted and to ensure a satisfactory setting and external appearance to the development.  This is in accordance with policy ENV6 of the Maidstone Borough-Wide Local Plan 2000, policies CC1 and CC6 of the South East Plan 2009 and the guidance contained within the National Planning Policy Framework 2012.

Voting:  9 – For  0 – Against  2 – Abstentions