Agenda item

Application: 2022/1026/FUL

Location: Fentune House, Meadow’s Edge, Biggin

Proposal: Erection of a single storey storage building required for maintenance of paddock/grassland land (retrospective)

The Senior Planning Officer presented the application which had been brought before the Planning Committee as the Ward Councillor for the area where the proposal lies had requested it to be heard by the Committee in writing within 21 days of the publication of the application in the weekly list. The following reasons for Committee consideration were noted, which were considered to be valid material planning reasons:

1. The proposals were similar to other applications which the Council had approved recently, such as the application in North Duffield which was approved by Committee in December 2021 (ref 2020/1391/FUL).

2. It is important to provide reasonable private amenity space with properties, provided that the proposal would not have any significant adverse impact on the residential amenities of the occupiers of any neighbouring residential properties and there was no significant adverse effect on the character and appearance of the surrounding countryside. Having assessed the proposals, I consider that these proposals met this test and are therefore compliant with Policy ENV1 (1) and H15 of the Selby District Local Plan and the NPPF.

Members noted that the application was for the retrospective erection of a single storey storage building required for maintenance of paddock/grassland land.

The Committee questioned the Senior Planning Officer on the material of the storge building, how it is accessed and whether it is inside permitted development dimensions.

The Senior Planning Officer stated that the storage building is a steel structure and is accessible through the rear garden of Fentune House. The Senior Planning Officer explained that the structure was outside the permitted curtilage of the property so there were no permissible dimensions for the storage building.

Members questioned the contents of the storage building and the Senior Planning Officer responded that the interior had not been available for inspection but that the application was for machinery of a domestic nature to maintain the paddock land at Fentune House and Oxmoor Lodge.

Ward Councillor Richard Musgrave was in attendance and spoke in favour of the application.

Planning Agent Sam Dewar was in attendance and spoke in favour of the application.

Members expressed approval of the structure as it is in keeping with its surroundings but questioned whether the residential nature of the building would have any impact on the surrounding land which was categorised for agricultural use.

The Planning Development Manager stated that, were the application approved, it was advised that a condition be added to preclude the use of the building for domestic use and, that should the building remain, it be used solely in connection with agricultural use of the adjacent land.

It was proposed and seconded that the application be APPROVED against the Senior Planning Officer’s recommendation subject to conditions reserved to the Head of Planning Services in consultation with the Chair and Vice-Chair of Planning Committee. A vote was taken on the Proposal and was carried.

RESOLVED:

That the application be APPROVED subject to conditions reserved to the Head of Planning Services in consultation with the Chair and Vice-Chair of Planning Committee.