Issue - meetings

At the invitation of the Chairman, Ms. D. Furniss addressed the Committee and spoke against the application, and Mr. J. Pearson spoke in favour on behalf of the applicant.

The Head of Planning and Environment Services reported the following amendment to the description of the application, showing amended access arrangements in line with comments of Worcestershire County Council's Highway Officer, and minor revisions to landscaping:-

"(And further amended and augmented by plans dated 08.06.2007 plan 20c)."

The receipt of comments from the Landscaping Officer and the Drainage Engineer were also reported, as were the additional comments of Worcestershire County Council's Highways Partnership (Bromsgrove), together with a correction to the Consultations section of the report amending "WME" to "WMC" (West Mercia Constabulary).

The Head of Planning and Environment Services also clarified the size of the proposed extension which was to be 42 metres in length, 18.5 metres in width and 11.5 metres in height.

RESOLVED: that permission be granted subject to the conditions and notes set out or referred to on pages 30 and 31 of the report, together with the following additional conditions and note:-

20.       H9

21.       H13

22.       H17

23.       H27

Note

No works on the site should be commenced until engineering details of the improvements to the Public Highway have been approved by the Highways Authority and an agreement under Section 278 of the Highways Act 1980 entered in to.