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MA 11 0478 YMCA MELROSE CLOSE MAIDSTONE ME15 6BD

Meeting: 10/01/2013 - Planning Committee (Item 239)

239 MA/11/0478 - APPLICATION TO DISCHARGE CONDITIONS RELATING TO MA/03/1147/02 (APPROVAL OF RESERVED MATTERS OF SITING, MEANS OF ACCESS, DESIGN, EXTERNAL APPEARANCE AND LANDSCAPING PURSUANT TO CONDITIONS 1, 2 AND 3 OF OUTLINE PERMISSION MA/03/1147 FOR A REPLACEMENT COMMUNITY CENTRE, JUNIOR FOOTBALL PITCH, 83 DWELLINGS ASSOCIATED PARKING, ACCESS ROAD AND LANDSCAPING, RE-SUBMISSION OF MA/03/1147/01) BEING SUBMISSION OF DETAILS RECEIVED ON 24 MARCH 2011 AND 8 MARCH 2012 PURSUANT TO CONDITIONS 11 - SLAB LEVELS, 14 - FLOODLIGHTING AND 16 - PERIMETER FENCING TO THE SPORTS PITCH - YMCA, MELROSE CLOSE, MAIDSTONE PDF 100 KB

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Minutes:

All Members stated that they had been lobbied.

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

Mr Spearink, an objector, Mrs Day of the North Loose Residents’ Association (against) and Councillors Yates and Chittenden addressed the meeting.

RESOLVED:

1. That consideration of this application be deferred to enable:-

(a) Further negotiations to take place with both the YMCA and local residents to seek to achieve a scheme of lighting that reduces the impact of the lighting on nearby housing; and

(b) The impact of the lighting on wildlife to be re-examined.

2. That the Ward Members and Councillor Harwood are to be involved in the negotiations.

Voting: 12 – For 1 – Against 0 – Abstentions