Agenda and minutes

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Apologies for absence were received from Councillors North, Todd, Lane and Sylvester.

Councillors Martin and Ash were in attendance as substitutes. 

At this point Members must declare whether they have a disclosable pecuniary interest, or other interest, in any of the items on the agenda, unless it is already entered in the register of members’ interests or is a “pending notification “ that has been disclosed to the Solicitor to the Council.

Members must also declare if they are subject to their party group whip in relation to any items under consideration.

         There were no declarations of interest.

The site was located on the edge of Peterborough, positioned between Dogsthorpe and Parnwell to the south, and Eye village to the north east. 

The site was bounded to the north by the landfill site, and to the south the Paston Parkway dual carriageway and Junction 8 roundabout.  The existing Garden Park retail development was located to the west and the petrol filling station, KFC restaurant to the east.  The site was accessed via the Garden Park vehicle access from Eye Road.   

The site covered an area of 4.32ha, and currently formed part of the adjacent Garden Park retail development.  The site was made up of car parking, wooded area and some unused land.   

Planning permission was sought for construction of a retail foodstore (Class A1), training and skills centre (Use Classes B1/D1), a cycle facility (Use Class D1/ancillary A1), children's play barn (Class D2) with associated open air play area, access, associated car and cycle parking, servicing and hard and soft landscaping

          The application sought outline planning permission to establish;

·           The principle of development;

·           The quantum of development on the site; and 

·           Access to the site

          The proposal would provide:

·          6,040 square metre A1 retail foodstore;

·           Skills centre including workshop facilities and an arts and crafts showroom   (288 square metre) GEA;

·          A leisure cycle hub (390 square metre) Gross External Area (GEA);

·          Children’s play barn and play area (360 square metre) GEA; and

·           430 car parking spaces, the imposition of which would involve the removal of some trees from along the tree belt.

It was advised that the access would remain as existing, with improvements being made to the traffic light controlled junction, so there would two lanes at each of the approach legs to the junction. This junction would be monitored for a year and if it was found that congestion issues arose, right turning vehicles travelling from Eye into the site would be prevented.

The site would be served by two bus stops, both located along the Peterborough Road and these were both within 400 metres of the heart of the development. This was the accepted walking distance between bus stops and destinations. The Applicant had further indicated that should the proposal be approved, negotiations with the bus service provider would be undertaken to identify whether buses could be routed directly to the heart of the development. In addition, contained within the proposal S106 a contribution towards sustainable travel had been secured.

All matters relating to layout, scale, appearance and landscaping were reserved to a later stage. 

The Group Manager Development Management addressed the Committee and gave an overview of the proposal. It was advised that Government Policy within the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) and the Council’s own retail development policy, sought for retail development to be located in the city centre, existing local centres and in the centres planned for the urban extensions e.g. Great Haddon. As the proposal was located outside of the town centre, it was required to be assessed against  ...  view the full minutes text for item 4.

Members were asked to determine whether the item, which contained exempt information relating to an individual or would be likely to reveal the identify of an individual and information relating to the financial or business affairs of a particular person (including the authority holding that information), as defined by Paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 of Schedule 12A of Part 1 of the Local Government Act 1972, should be exempt and the press and public excluded from the meeting during the item, or whether the public interest in disclosing the information outweighed the public interest in maintaining the exemption.

The Committee unanimously agreed to the exemption and the press and public were excluded from the meeting.

The Committee received a report requesting it to consider appropriate enforcement action in relation to non-compliance with an approved planning drawing.

Following debate, a motion was put forward and seconded to agree that no enforcement action be taken. The motion was carried unanimously.

RESOLVED: (Unanimously), to agree that no enforcement action be taken, as per officer recommendation.

Reasons for the decision:

The Committee considered that no enforcement action was required as per the reasons outlined in the exempt committee report.