Issue - meetings

Regeneration of district park with improved park furniture / lighting; restoration of heritage features including Shell Theatre, model traffic area and Lordship Lane entrance / toilets; new river corridor with timber bridges and pathways, new Environment Centre for community groups.

RECOMMENDATION: Grant permission, subject to conditions.

The Committee considered a report, previously circulated, which gave details of the application, the consultation, the site and its environment, planning history and all the relevant planning factors and policies.

The Planning Officer presented a summary of the report outlining the key points, and answered questions from the Committee. Further to the report circulated, it was reported that the Environment Agency had withdrawn their objections to the application, and would be requesting a range of conditions, the subject of which were circulated to Members. It was also reported that the area of the site was 23 hectares, as opposed to the figure set out in the report, and that the footprint of the environmental building was 303 square metres.

Members were advised that the Council’s Environmental Health team had originally objected, however, this objection had now been resolved as they now understood that the brook was not going to be opened up under the scheme.

The Committee examined the plans on display in relation to the application.

In response to questions from the Committee, it was confirmed that the concerns raised by the Environment Agency and the Environmental Health Service would be addressed by the conditions imposed. 

RESOLVED

That application HGY/2010/0471 be granted permission, subject to conditions, and that authority be delegated to officers to approve the conditions proposed by the Environment Agency subsequent to the meeting.