Agenda item

Application: 2018/1387/FUL

Location: Birchwood Lodge, Market Weighton Road, Barlby 

Proposal: Proposed erection of single storey extension to main workshop building, forming a new storage area, forming of new workshop and use of runway for any day of the week

The Senior Planning Officer presented the application which had been brought back to Planning Committee with an updated officer report to incorporate all amendments to conditions. Furthermore, the committee report considered on 10 July 2019 had been attached at Appendix 1, and the decision notice for application 2016/0141/COU for the proposed change of use to form a grass runway had been attached to the report at Appendix 2.

The Committee noted that the application was for the proposed erection of single storey extension to main workshop building, forming a new storage area, forming of new workshop and use of runway for any day of the week

Since publication of the report, minor amendments had been made for clarity and were set out in the officer update note, including a change to the proposed description which removed the single storey extension to the main workshop building, reference to the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017 (as amended), clarification of Condition 9 to ‘calendar year’, and two additional Conditions, 12 and 13.

Members asked questions in relation to the noise impacts of allowing flights at the weekends, the monitoring of flight logs and the height of building B. Officers confirmed that the flight logs had been viewed by both planning and enforcement officers in the past, but that any enforcement action would be held in abeyance until the current planning application had been determined.

Michael McDonald, objector, spoke in objection to the application.

Councillor Karl Arthur, ward Member, spoke in objection to the application.

Members expressed some concerns regarding the proposed extension of days on which flights could take place to include Saturdays and Sundays. It was felt that closer monitoring of the flight logs and the actual flights taking place was needed. The Committee were, in general, satisfied with the proposals relating to the buildings on site, but some Members were concerned that there may be some impact on residential amenity and the time frames for construction.

The Committee were reminded by the Solicitor that any matters of enforcement were outside of the scope of the Planning Committee, the committee should consider the application before them which included conditions relating to flights and the flight logs.

Members considered the application in full and it was subsequently proposed and seconded that the application be deferred in order for a site visit to be undertaken. In light of Members concerns it was also suggested that in the meantime officers discuss with the applicant the conditions relating to the flightpaths, the days of the week and hours of the day in which flights could take place and the time frame for the construction of the buildings, with a view to bringing alternative conditions back to the committee after the site visit had taken place.

RESOLVED:

i.          To DEFER the application in order for a site visit to take place.

ii.        To ask officers to discuss with the applicant the conditions relating to the flightpaths, the days of the week and hours of day in which flights could take place, and the time frame for the construction of the buildings.

iii.       That as a result of the aforementioned discussions with the applicant, any amended conditions be brought back to the committee for consideration after the site visit had take place.