Agenda and decisions

To receive any apologies for absence and notification of substitutions.

Minutes from the previous meeting held on 3 September 2024 will be considered at the next Planning East Committee.

To receive and note any declarations of interests in respect of any matters included on the agenda for consideration at this meeting.

(The other registrable interests of Councillors of Somerset Council, arising from membership of City, Town or Parish Councils and other Local Authorities will automatically be recorded in the minutes: City, Town & Parish Twin Hatters - Somerset Councillors 2023 )

The Chair to advise the Committee of any items on which members of the public have requested to speak and advise those members of the public present of the details of the Council’s public participation scheme.

For those members of the public who have submitted any questions or statements, please note, a three minute time limit applies to each speaker.

Requests to speak at the meeting at Public Question Time must be made to the Monitoring Officer in writing or by email to democraticservicesteam@somerset.gov.uk  by 5pm on day, date, year – usually Weds before.

To consider an application for the erection of a detatched dwelling.

The Planning Application 2023/1625/FUL be APPROVED as per officer recommendation and one further condition.

Votes – 8 in favour, 2 abstentions

To consider an outline application with all matters reserved except for access, up to 47no. dwellings (including affordable housing), open space, ecological mitigation, and supporting infrastructure.

That planning application 2023/1515/OUT be DEFERRED subject to clarification that the means of access as proposed can be provided without requiring land owned by a third party other than the highway authority.

Votes - 8 in favour, 1 against, 1 abstention

That planning application 2024/1164/FUL be REFUSED contrary to the Officer’s recommendation, as there was an adverse impact on the landscape character.

Votes – 6 for, 4 against

To consider a reserved matters application for 6 dwellinghouses with details of access. Matters of appearance/landscaping/layout/scale to be determined

That planning application 2024/0334/REM be APPROVED as per Officer recommendation and two further conditions.

Vote - Unanimous

To consider a listed building consent application for the change of colour of a ground floor shopfront from white to pink (retrospective)

That planning application 2024/0906/LBC be DEFERRED so that the applicant can consider an alternative option.

Votes – 5 for, 3 against

To consider the appeals decision report of appeals made by the Planning Inspectorate between 20^th August and 17^th September 2024.