Issue - meetings

The minutes of the Planning Committee meetings held on 21^st May and 4^th June 2024, were received.

With regards to the minutes of the meeting held on 21^st May 2024, Councillor E.M.S Gray asked for the following amendments: -

Page 7, Minute No. 3/24 typographical error, respectively and not respectivly.

Page 10, Minute No. 7/24, paragraph be amended to read: -

Members expressed some concern with the width of the access in particular with regards to the fire services access as they were not consulted as part of the application. Officers explained that they were not a statutory consultee, to which Members disagreed in that they believed they should be consulted with on any application where the proposed highway was under 3.7m. It was further detailed that the current width of the access was 3.3m and was poorly lit and without a footpath, therefore, should these issues be rectified it would make the access much smaller and less than the 3.2m width required by the Worcestershire County Council Streetscape Design Guide.

Councillor M. Marshall asked for the following amendments: -

Page 7, Minute No. 4/24 typographical error, Councillor M. Marshall and not Councillor C. Marshall.

Page 8, Minute No. 7/24 typographical error, Councillor M. Marshall and not Councillor M. Marchall. Also, that the paragraph be amended as follows: -

Councillor M. Marshall withdrew to the public gallery prior to the Officer’s presentation and left the meeting room after addressing the Committee, as the Ward Councillor, under the Council’s public speaking rules.

Page 10, Minute No. 7/24. Councillor M. Marshall felt that the Officer’s Decision Notice, available on Public Access, reflected more accurately the comments made by Members and should therefore be included within the minutes, as follows: -

The proposed development would, by reason of its consequential displacement of vehicles to the public highway, have a severe residual cumulative impact upon the surrounding road network. Accordingly, it would be contrary to Policy BDP1 and paragraph 115 of the National Planning Policy Framework.

RESOLVED that, subject to the amendments, as detailed in the preamble above that the minutes of the Planning Committee meetings held on 21^st May and 4^th June 2024, be approved as correct records.