Meeting documents

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Any new or updated declarations of interest will be received.

The Committee will consider the accuracy of the attached minutes.

The Minutes of the previous meeting held on 3 November 2022 were accepted as accurate and signed.

The Chair will allow members of the public to present a petition on any matter within the Committee’s remit. Questions or statements about the matters on the agenda for this meeting will be taken at the time when the matter is considered and after the Case Officers have made their presentations. Each speaker will be allocated 3 minutes. The length of public question time will be no more than 30 minutes.

Regulation 3 Application for the erection of a new primary school & nursery, to include construction of sports pitches, parking area, new access onto spine road and incorporating Landscaping and infrastructure (Outline approval granted as part of wider Orchard Grove development (42/14/0069).

To consider this report.

Note – members of the Committee will be undertaking a site visit ahead of the meeting.

The purpose of a Members’ site visit is to view the site and its surroundings. The site visits are fact-finding exercises and there will be no discussion of the merits of the applications, nor will any decision be taken. Somerset County Council’s Constitution states that "applicants, owners, agents, objectors and other interested parties are able to attend site visits and observe but there should be no lobbying of Committee members." 

Regulation 3 Application for the erection of a new primary school & nursery, to include construction of sports pitches, parking area, new access onto spine road and incorporating Landscaping and infrastructure (Outline approval granted as part of wider Orchard Grove development (42/14/0069).

The Committee RESOLVED:

(1)  That planning permission be GRANTED subject to the prior completion of a Section 106 agreement to secure the financial provisions of the School Travel Plan dated Oct 2022 (Revision C) including the travel plan fee of £700 and the safeguarded sum of £49,320 and to the conditions and informatives as set out in the Report of the Service Manager - Planning and Development, and the additional condition: -

Condition: Details of the filter strips and their locations, details of the detention basin including freeboards at 300mm, rainwater butts within the orchard, cellular storage, exceedance strategy and onward connection to the wider site drainage system shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority prior to the commencement of development.

Reason: In accordance with Policy CP6 of the Taunton Deane Core Strategy

(2)  That authority to undertake any minor non-material editing which may be necessary to the wording of those conditions be delegated to the Service Manager - Planning and Development.

S106A Application to Discharge of s106 obligation at Delhorn Lane Lympsham Grid ref 334176 153444 Bridleway AX22/11 & AX17/11

To consider this report.

Note – members of the Committee will be undertaking a site visit ahead of the meeting.

The purpose of a Members’ site visit is to view the site and its surroundings. The site visits are fact-finding exercises and there will be no discussion of the merits of the applications, nor will any decision be taken. Somerset County Council’s Constitution states that "applicants, owners, agents, objectors and other interested parties are able to attend site visits and observe but there should be no lobbying of Committee members." 

Application to Discharge of s106 obligation at Delhorn Lane, Lympsham Grid ref 334176 153444 Bridleway AX22/11 & AX17/11 (SCC/4005/2022).

The Committee RESOLVED that the requirements of the agreement entered into in 2016, should remain in force and the application for discharge be refused, for the reasons set out in section 8 of the submitted report.

The Chair may raise any items of urgent business.