Agenda and minutes

An update sheet was circulated in relation to planning applications to be considered this evening, which included additional information for Members attention received after the original agenda documents had been published.

RESOLVED that the update sheet be received by Planning Committee.

Councillor Bob Bushell, Chair of Planning Committee welcomed everyone present at tonight’s meeting of the City of Lincoln Council Planning Committee.

He advised that the Committee was made up of democratically Elected Members who would be presented with a recommendation from a professional officer for each application on the agenda.

He explained that after each application had been presented, those interested parties who had registered to speak would then be given five minutes to verbally present their views.

Following this, the Committee would debate each proposal and make the decision having considered all relevant information. Clearly, the process of making the decision would inevitably cause some people to feel aggrieved, however, it was hoped that all interested parties would feel that their views had been considered as part of the process.

He requested that mobile phones be turned off or set to silent throughout the meeting and to please be refrained from attempting to speak from the public gallery unless having formerly registered to speak on an application. In which case, himself as Chair would call you to the speakers table at the relevant time.

Thank you.

Please note that, in accordance with the Members' Code of Conduct, when declaring interests members must disclose the existence and nature of the interest, and whether it is a disclosable pecuniary interest (DPI) or personal and/or pecuniary.

No declarations of interest were received.

Kieron Manning, Assistant Director of Planning, presented a visual power point display in which he:

a)    outlined the detail of the planning site location and proposal as follows:

·         A hybrid planning application (2019/0294/RG3) was granted full planning permission and outline consent in January 2022 for the development of the Western Growth Corridor (WGC) Sustainable Urban Extension.

·         The full element granted permission for the means of access to the development from Skellingthorpe Road and Tritton Road. Works to construct the Skellingthorpe Road access and the first section of the spine road was currently underway.

·         The outline element granted consent for the development of up to 3,200 dwellings, a local centre, primary school, commercial uses, leisure uses, highway infrastructure and open space.

·         This current application related to Phase 1A, which had outline consent to be developed with housing. The application proposed 52 two and three storey dwellings. These included detached, semi-detached and terraced properties of 2, 2½ and 3 storeys.

·         The application sought to approve all of the reserved matters including the layout of the development, the scale of the dwellings, their appearance, means of access and landscaping. The application also included additional information to satisfy a number of conditions of the outline consent, as detailed in full within the officer’s report.

·         Phase 1A was located directly to the north east of Skellingthorpe Road, opposite the junction with Birchwood Avenue. This phase comprised parcels A1 and A1a, which sat to the north west and south east of the spine road respectively. Beyond the site to the north east was the Catchwater Drain and open land. To the south east were residential properties off Burghley Road and Haddon Close. To the north west were residential properties on Grosvenor Avenue, Roxborough Close and Belgravia Close. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints abutted the site to the west.

·         This represented the first phase of residential development proposed on the WGC site, in accordance with the approved, indicative Masterplan (included within the officer’s report), and phasing plan. The phasing plans also indicatively identified that parcels A1 and A1a would deliver 52 units, again, the proposal for 52 dwellings would be in accordance with this.

·         The applicant and owner of the land was the City of Lincoln Council. For this reason the application was brought before Full Council acting as Planning Committee this evening.

·         The usual statutory and public consultations had been undertaken by the Planning Department, including the consultation of over 500 properties in the vicinity, the display of site notices and the publication of a press advert. In addition to this the applicant and applicant’s agent held a public consultation event in October 2023 at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, providing the opportunity for local residents to view the plans.

·         Revised plans had been received during the course of the application to address comments received from Lincolnshire County Council (LCC) as Local Highway and Lead Local Flood Authority, as detailed in full within the officer’s report.

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Simon Cousins, Planning Team Leader, presented a visual power point display in which he:

a)    outlined the detail of the planning site location and proposal as follows:

·         Submission of access reserved matter was requested for the construction of a Haul Road between Phase 1A Skellingthorpe Road and Phase 1B Tritton Road relating to hybrid (outline) planning permission 2019/0294/RG3

·         Outline Planning Permission was granted for the Western Growth Corridor urban extension in January 2021 and at the same time full planning permission was granted for the first length of road and the junction with Skellingthorpe Road. The construction of this first length of road and the formation of the new junction was currently under way.

·         Full planning permission was also granted for the first length of road, the construction of the bridge over the railway and the formation of the junction with Tritton Road at the same time as the works detailed above and the application now before Planning Committee sought permission to build a temporary road, a Haul Road, from Skellingthorpe Road, across the length of the Western Growth Corridor site, to the west side of the railway line adjacent to Tritton Road.

·         This road would then be used to transport materials to and from the site of the road bridge over the railway to enable it to be constructed.

·         The east side of the railway could be accessed from Tritton Road and the commencement of works on that side of the railway did not need a further application in relation to access.

a)    referred to the site history to the planning application as detailed in full within the officer’s report

b)    advised that the application for Outline Planning Permission assessed the proposals for the Western Growth Corridor Sustainable Urban Extension taking account of National and Local Planning Policy; the application for the approval of Reserved Matters should conform to the extant planning permission

c)    reported that:

·         The application before the Council for consideration now was an application for the Approval of Reserved Matters – this meant the application sought to discharge, or partially discharge, conditions that were included on the Outline Planning Permission granted in 2021.

·         The 2021 planning permission was the most significant material consideration and the details of how this proposal accorded with that permission was the relevant consideration for Committee.

·         Equally, whilst the usual issues of visual and residential amenity were still relevant, the committee would have to decide how much weight to accord those issues whilst also considering the high level of weight to be attached to planning permission being in place for the new road and bridge which the haul road was intended to serve.

·         The conditions which were relevant to the consideration of this reserved matters application were as follows (the 2021 planning permission was attached as an appendix to the application that preceded this one on your agenda – 2023/0736/RM).

·         Each condition listed below required details to be submitted and/or compliance with existing approved details on the original permission:

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(Councillor Metcalfe and Councillor Smalley left the meeting at this stage in the proceedings. They took no part in the discussions or vote on the final matter to be determined.)

Simon Cousins, Planning Team Leader, presented a visual power point display in which he:

a)    outlined the detail of the planning site location and proposal as follows:

·         A hybrid planning application (2019/0294/RG3) granted full planning permission and outline consent in January 2022 for the development of the Western Growth Corridor (WGC) Sustainable Urban Extension.

·         The full element granted permission for the means of access to the development from Skellingthorpe Road and Tritton Road. Works to construct the Skellingthorpe Road access and the first section of the spine road were currently underway.

·         The outline element granted consent for the development of up to 3,200 dwellings, a local centre, primary school, commercial uses, leisure uses, highways infrastructure and open space.

·         A reserved matters application for 52 homes within Phase 1A was being presented to Members for consideration tonight. Phase 1A was located to the north east of Skellingthorpe Road, opposite the junction with Birchwood Avenue.

·         This application sought full planning permission for the erection of two substations, which were required to facilitate the delivery of the housing proposed within Phase 1A.

·         One of the substations was located within Phase 1A, at the north corner of the development site, adjacent to the Grosvenor Avenue turning head. The other was located to the north east of the development boundary and the Catchwater Drain, to the south east of the spine road.

b)    referred to the site history to the planning application as detailed in full within the officer’s report

c)    provided details of the policy pertaining to the application, as follows:

·          Policy S53: Design and Amenity

d)    provided details of the issues pertaining to the application, as follows:

·         Visual amenity

·         Highways and drainage

e)    outlined the responses made to the consultation exercise

f)     concluded that:

·         There was no objection to the position of the substations or to their simple, functional design.

·         They would not cause harm to the wider context.

·         Matters relating to highways and drainage had been appropriately considered by the relevant statutory consultees.

·         The proposals would therefore be in accordance with the requirements of CLLP Policy S53.

No comments or questions from members were forthcoming.

The Chair moved to the vote.

RESOLVED that planning permission be granted subject to the following conditions:

• Time limit of the permission
• Development in accordance with approved plans