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16/501631 Lested Farm , Plough Wents Road, Chart Sutton

 

 

Meeting: 06/10/2016 - Planning Committee (Item 167)

167 16/501631 - EXTENSION OF LESTED FARM FARMYARD INTO AN ADJACENT AGRICULTURAL FIELD (REVISED SCHEME TO 15/506233/FULL). DEVELOPMENT OF AN ON-FARM AGRICULTURAL ANAEROBIC DIGESTION PROJECT THAT WILL GENERATE CLEAN RENEWABLE ENERGY FROM ANIMAL MANURES AND SLURRIES, AGRICULTURAL BY-PRODUCTS FROM THE GROWING AND PROCESSING OF FRUIT AND VEGETABLES, WITH THE ADDITION OF SOME ENERGY CROPS - LESTED FARM, PLOUGH WENTS ROAD, CHART SUTTON, KENT pdf icon PDF 197 KB

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Minutes:

All Members except Councillors M Burton, Harwood and Wilby stated that they had been lobbied.

 

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

 

The Development Manager advised the Committee that the second page of the urgent update report circulated at the meeting had been inadvertently omitted. The final paragraph and the amended recommendation should read:

 

“I note that the red line marking the extent of the application site on the Site Location Plan (FR1003-A-06) is drawn so that the proposed gas flare (in the north west corner of the facility) and the proposed shallow depression known as a ‘swale’ (to the east of the facility) are omitted. These elements are clearly shown on the plans; they form a part of the development and should be included within the application site.  I consider this necessitates a revised Site Location Plan which, at the time of writing, has not been submitted and therefore I recommend that Members give delegated powers to approve the application subject to the receipt of a satisfactory amended plan.  I do not consider it necessary to re-consult third parties on that amended plan as the drawings already clearly show the features concerned.

 

AMENDMENT TO RECOMMENDATION: That subject to the receipt of an amended site plan correctly marking the extent of the application site, the Head of Planning and Development be given delegated powers to grant permission subject to the conditions in the committee report as amended as shown above.”

 

Mr Chappell, an objector, Councillor Waring of Chart Sutton Parish Council (against) and Mr Collins, for the applicant, addressed the meeting.

 

RESOLVED:  That subject to the receipt of an amended site plan correctly marking the extent of the application site, the Head of Planning and Development be given delegated powers to grant permission subject to the conditions set out in the report, as amended by the urgent update report, with the amendment of condition 10 as follows:

 

The facility shall not exceed a combined throughput capacity of 17,000 tonnes per annum.  Monitoring records of the total throughput shall be made and retained at the site and made available for inspection at any reasonable time following a request from the Local Planning Authority.

 

Reason:  The impact of the facility on highway safety and residential amenity has been assessed on the basis of the estimates of throughput provided and the Local Planning Authority would wish to maintain control over any future increase in the capacity of the site.

 

Voting:  7 – For  1 – Against  2 – Abstentions