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18/504157/FULL - Perfect Place, Frittenden Road, Staplehurst, Tonbridge, Kent TN12 0LD

Meeting: 08/11/2018 - Planning Committee (Item 191)

191 18/504157 - ERECTION OF ANCILLARY DAYROOM BUILDING - PERFECT PLACE, FRITTENDEN ROAD, STAPLEHURST, TONBRIDGE, KENT pdf icon PDF 174 KB

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Minutes:

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

 

Councillor Forward of Staplehurst Parish Council and Mr Taylor, for the applicant, addressed the meeting.

 

RESOLVED:  That

 

1.  Permission be granted subject to the conditions set out in the report and an informative to the effect that:

 

The applicant is advised that with regard to condition 1 above, the Council expects to see a structural landscape buffer on all the site boundaries designed in accordance with the Council's adopted Landscape Character Assessment which will help mitigate the impact of the Dayroom.  The buffer shall comprise of tree and shrub planting including Hawthorn, Crab Apple and Wild Service.  The Council requests that the applicant liaise with the Landscape Officer, who can be contacted on 01622 602721,in the designing of the buffer planting.

 

2.  The Head of Planning and Development be given delegated powers to finalise the wording of the additional informative.

 

Voting:  11 – For  0 – Against  1 – Abstention

 

FURTHER RESOLVED:  That the Strategic Planning, Sustainability and Transportation Committee be requested to consider the issue of the need for a defined policy on the treatment of dayrooms on Gypsy and Traveller sites and how this might be brought forward in the review of the Local Plan process and the Supplementary Planning Documents that relate to that process.

 

Voting:  12 – For  0 – Against  0 – Abstentions