Agenda and minutes

To receive any apologies for absence from Members.

Apologies were received from Cllrs S Carr-Brown, J Clements and P Sidaway.

To receive information on any changes in the membership of the Committee.

Note – When a member of a Committee is unable to attend a meeting of a Committee or Sub-Committee, the relevant Political Group Leader (or their nominated representative) may, by notice to the Monitoring Officer (or their nominated representative) prior to the meeting, appoint a substitute member from within the same Political Group. The contact details on the front of this agenda should be used for notifications. 

Cllr P Canavan for Cllr S Carr-Brown, Cllr T Trent for Cllr J Clements and Cllr S Moore for Cllr P Sidaway

Councillors are requested to declare any interests on items included in this agenda. Please refer to the workflow on the preceding page for guidance.

Declarations received will be reported at the meeting.

Cllr P Hilliard declared in relation to pre-determination that they had previously made positive statements in public meetings regarding the importance of the Long Groyne for protection. They would not take part in the debate or vote on this item.

Cllr M LePoidevin, declared for transparency that they attended and was on the Church Council for Spire Church as it was referenced in a public statement for item 6b.

Cllr M Tarling declared for transparency that he had attended FCERM meetings but had not expressed any views in relation to this.

Mr D Hodges, Development Management Manager, declared a personal interests in items 6a and 6b and withdrew from the meeting for these items.

To confirm and sign as a correct record the minutes of the meeting held on 17 August 2023.

The minutes of the meeting held on 17 August were approved as a correct record.

To receive any requests to speak on planning applications which the Planning Committee is considering at this meeting.

The deadline for the submission of requests to speak is 10.00am of the working day before the meeting. Requests should be submitted to Democratic Services using the contact details on the front of this agenda.

Further information about how public speaking is managed at meetings is contained in the Planning Committee Protocol for Public Speaking and Statements, a copy of which is included with this agenda sheet and is also published on the website on the following page:

https://democracy.bcpcouncil.gov.uk/mgCommitteeDetails.aspx?ID=290

Summary of speaking arrangements as follows:

Speaking at Planning Committee (in person or virtually):

·       There will be a maximum combined time of five minutes to speak in objection and up to two persons may speak within the five minutes.

·       There will be a further maximum combined time of five minutes to speak in support and up to two persons may speak within the five minutes.

·       No speaker may speak for more than half this time (two and a half minutes) UNLESS there are no other requests to speak received by the deadline OR it is with the agreement of the other speaker.

Submitting a statement to Planning Committee as an alternative to speaking:

·       Anyone who has registered to speak by the deadline may, as an alternative to attending/speaking in person or virtually, submit a written statement to be read out on their behalf.

·       Statements must be provided to Democratic Services by 10.00am of the working day before the meeting.

·       A statement must not exceed 450 words (and will be treated as amounting to two and a half minutes of speaking time).

Please refer to the full Protocol document for further guidance.

Note: The public speaking procedure is separate from and is not intended to replicate or replace the procedure for submitting a written representation on a planning application to the Planning Offices during the consultation period.

There were a number of public requests to speak and for statements to be read out. These are detailed under the individual items below.

To consider the planning applications as listed below.

See planning application reports circulated with the agenda, as updated by the agenda addendum sheet to be published one working day before the meeting.

Councillors are requested where possible to submit any technical questions on planning applications to the Case Officer at least 48 hours before the meeting to ensure this information can be provided at the meeting.

The running order in which planning applications will be considered will be as listed on this agenda sheet.

The Chairman retains discretion to propose an amendment to the running order at the meeting if it is considered expedient to do so.

Members will appreciate that the copy drawings attached to planning application reports are reduced from the applicants’ original and detail, in some cases, may be difficult to read. To search for planning applications, the following link will take you to the main webpage where you can click on a tile (area) to search for an application.  The link is:

https://www.bcpcouncil.gov.uk/Planning-and-building-control/Search-and-comment-on-applications/Search-and-comment-on-applications.aspx

Councillors are advised that if they wish to refer to specific drawings or plans which are not included in these papers, they should contact the Case Officer at least 48 hours before the meeting to ensure that these can be made available.

To view Local Plans, again, the following link will take you to the main webpage where you can click on a tile to view the local plan for that area. The link is:

https://www.bcpcouncil.gov.uk/Planning-and-building-control/Planning-policy/Current-Local-Plans/Current-Local-Plan.aspx

The Committee considered planning application reports, copies of which had been circulated and which appear as Appendices A to E to these minutes in the Minute Book. A Committee Addendum Sheet was published on 16 August 2023 and appears as Appendix D to these minutes. The Committee considered the planning applications in the order set out below:

The meeting adjourned at 9:11 am and resumed at 9:25am

Parkstone Ward

APP/23/00377/P? 

Demolish Church Hall and replace with a new development of six houses with associated parking? 

Parkstone Ward

(APP/23/00377/P)

Demolish Church Hall and replace with a new development of six houses with associated parking.

Public Representations

Objectors

vMs Emma Lidster

Applicant/ Supporters

vRevd Mike Trotman

RESOVLED that application be REFUSED in accordance with the recommendation set out in the Planning Officer’s report.

Voting: For - 10, Against - 3, Abstain - 1

Note: A move was made to defer for further information which was not seconded.

The meeting adjourned 11.54 and resumed at 12:05

Parkstone Ward

APP/23/00382/P

Demolish Church Centre and replace with a new development of 4no houses with associated parking?

Parkstone Ward

(APP/23/00382/P)

Demolish Church Hall and replace with a new development of 4no. houses with associated parking.

Public Representations

Objectors

vMs Amy Goodall – Statement read out by Democratic Services Officer

vMrs Christine Law

Applicant/ Supporters

vMr Darryl Howells, Agent on behalf of applicant

RESOVLED that the application be REFUSED in accordance with the recommendation set out in the Planning Officer’s report with the exclusion of reason 2 in the list of reasons for refusal.

Note: The removal of reason 2 from the list of reasons for refusal was due to the proposal not being considered overcrowded and therefore not detrimental to the character and appearance of the street scene.

Voting: For - 8, Against - 5, Abstain - 1

The meeting adjourned at 12:47 pm and resumed at 1:22pm.

East Southbourne and Tuckton Ward

7-2023-15059-Y

Demolition of the existing long groyne and construction of a new long groyne

East Southbourne and Tuckton

(7-2023-15059-Y)

Demolition of the existing long groyne and construction of a new long groyne.

Public Representations

Objectors

vNone

Applicant /Supporters

vMr Peter Christie on behalf of the applicant

RESOLVED that the application be APPROVED in accordance with the recommendation set out in the officer’s report.

Voting: Unanimous

Queen’s Park

7-2021-2983-J 

Minor Material Amendment to vary conditions 1 and 7 of application 7-2019-2983-I to amend front boundary fence and finishes to side boundary wall, location of bin store, access and turning areas to be tarmac, removal of screen planting along front boundary and variation to pedestrian access to include brick wall/ fence (Original description - Erection of a block of five flats with parking, refuse facilities and integral bike store)?

Queen’s Park Ward

(7-2021-2983-J)

Minor Material Amendment to vary conditions 1 and 7 of application 7-2019-2983-I to amend front boundary fence and finishes to side boundary wall, location of bin store, access and turning areas to be tarmac, removal of screen planting along front boundary and variation to pedestrian access to include brick wall/ fence (Original description - Erection of a block of five flats with parking, refuse facilities and integral bikestore).

Public Representations

Objections

vMr Stephen Blandamer – statement read by Democratic Services

vMr Jim Dipple – statement read by Democratic Services

Support

vAspire Architects – statement read by Democratic Services

RESOLVED that the application be APPROVED in accordance with the recommendation set out in the officer’s report.

Voting: Unanimous

Westbourne & West Cliff Ward

7-2023-15059-X 

Installation of removable structures that will provide seating areas for seasonal beach kiosk. 

Westbourne and Westcliff

Installation of removeable timber decking and 4 beach huts to provide seasonal seating area (Part Retrospective).

7-2023-15059-X

Public Representations

Objections

vNone

Support

vPaul Richardson, Shore Architects – statement read out by Democratic Services

Call-in Councillor

vCllr S Bartlett

RESOLVED that the application be REFUSED contrary to the recommendation in the Officer’s report to grant the application for the following reason.

It is considered that the proposed decking and structures would result in the loss of usable open space and result in a visually intrusive and cluttered form of development that would have an adverse impact on the openness of the beach sand area. The proposal would therefore be contrary to policies CS29, CS31 and CS41of the Bournemouth Local Plan.

Voting: For - 8, Against – 5,  Abstain - 1

Note: A move was made to approve the application with an amendment to strengthen condition 7 to include that a litter management plan be submitted approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  The move was lost by 5 votes to 9.