Agenda item

2017/0542/OUTM - Bowmans Mill, Selby Road, Whitley

Minutes:

Application: 2017/0542/OUTM

Location: Bowmans Mill, Selby Road, Whitley

Proposal: Outline to include access (all other matters reserved) for erection of up to 120 dwellings and associated car parking, garages, landscaping, open space and details of including demolition and removal of all structures, buildings and hard standing to facilitate future development

 

The Principal Planning Officer presented the application which had been brought to the Committee as more than 10 letters of objection had been received contrary to the Officer recommendations to approve the application. The application had been brought to Planning Committee on 10 July 2019 where Members had resolved to defer the application so a site visit could be undertaken. The site visit took place on Monday 5 August 2019.

 

The Committee noted that the application was for outline permission to include access (all other matters reserved) for erection of up to 120 dwellings and associated car parking, garages, landscaping, open space and details of including demolition and removal of all structures, buildings and hard standing to facilitate future development.

 

In relation to the officer update note, the planning agent had provided a response to comments made by Members at Planning Committee on 10 July 2019 on a number of issues including contamination, ecology, landscape, archaeology, heritage assets/viability and the report conclusion. Members were given details of the NYCC Ecology response which had not previously been included in the report, and noted an amended condition to replace conditions 22 and 23 which incorporated the Ecology comments.

 

Members noted that access points as set out on the plans before Members were all indicative at this stage, other than vehicular access which was included in the outline application; finalising the access to the development would form part of the reserve matters stage of the application.

 

Miss Julia Dunning, objector, spoke in objection to the application.

 

Mr Colin White from Eggborough Parish Council spoke in objection to the application.

 

Councillor Mary McCartney, ward Member, spoke in objection to the application.

 

Adrian Spawforth, agent, spoke in support of the application.

 

Members considered the application in full and acknowledged that the application was, at this stage, still an outline proposal. It was confirmed that the issues raised by the objector in relation to Croysdale Terrace access could be dealt with at the reserved matters stage of the application.

 

The Committee queried the provision of affordable housing, and it was confirmed by the Solicitor that a contribution of up to 40% could be sought in the S106, and the reserved matters stage would come back to Committee for consideration.

 

Some Members did not feel they could support the application due to the loss of the heritage assets on the site, whilst others were of the opinion that both the mill and accompanying Grange building had been too altered and damaged to be saved.

 

It was proposed and seconded that the application be approved, subject to the completion of a S106 agreement.

 

RESOLVED:

To GRANT the application subject to the completion of a S106 Agreement, the conditions set out at paragraph 6 of the report and the officer update note.

 

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