Agenda and minutes

It was RESOLVED that consideration be deferred at the request of staff to enable consideration of Environment Agency issues.

The report updated the Committee on the position of legal agreements and planning obligations. This related to approval of various types of application for planning permission decided by the Committee that could be subject to prior completion or a planning obligation. This was obtained pursuant to Section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Acts.

The report also updated the position on legal agreements and planning obligations agreed by this Committee during the period 2000-2011.

The Committee NOTED the report and the information contained therein.

Councillor Kelly enquired as to whether the £25,000 unallocated contribution from Tesco within planning reference P1768.00 could be spent anywhere in Harold Wood or only in specified areas.

The Committee’s Legal Representative undertook to investigate and report back to Councillor Kelly on the matter

The report accompanied a schedule of appeals and a schedule of appeal decisions, received between 4 June 2011 and 19 August 2011

The report detailed that 29 new appeals had been received since the last meeting of the Monitoring Committee in March 2011.

The Committee NOTED the report and the results of the appeal decisions received.

The Committee considered and noted the schedules detailing information regarding enforcement notices updated since the meeting held in June 2011.

Schedule A showed notices currently with the Secretary of State for the Environment (the Planning Inspectorate being the executive agency) awaiting appeal determination.

Schedule B showed current notices outstanding, awaiting service, compliance, etc. with up-dated information from staff on particular notices.

The Committee NOTED the information in the report.

The report updated the Committee on the progress and/or outcome of recent prosecutions undertaken on behalf of the Planning Service.

The Committee NOTED the report.

The Committee considered the report and following a brief debate, RESOLVED that planning permission be granted subject to the conditions as set out in the report.

Members asked that the new kiosk be situated in an area that was in open view to the public and that it should not be surrounded by landscaping due to previous instances of vandalism.

To consider whether the public should now be excluded from the remainder of the meeting on the grounds that it is likely that, in view of the nature of the business to be transacted or the nature of the proceedings, if members of the public were present during those items there would be disclosure to them of exempt information within the meaning of paragraph 9 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972; and, if it is decided to exclude the public on those grounds, the Committee to resolve accordingly on the motion of the Chairman.

The Committee decided on the motion of the Chairman that the public should be excluded from the remainder of the meeting on the ground that it was likely that, in view of the nature of the business to be transacted, if members of the public were present there would be disclosure to them of exempt information within the meaning of paragraph 3 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972 and it was not in the public interest to publish the information.

Attached to the report was a schedule listing, by Ward, all the complaints received by the Planning Control Service over alleged planning contraventions for the period from 4 June 2011 and 19 August 2011.

The Committee NOTED the report and AGREED the actions being taken.