Agenda and minutes

To receive any apologies for absence from Members.

Apologies were received from Cllr M Gillett, Cllr M Tarling and Cllr L Willliams.

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 A Chapmanlaw substituted for Cllr M Gillett for this meeting.

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.

The following interests were declared by members not on the committee but requesting to speak as ward/other councillors in the public speaking section of the Lower Pleasure Gardens application:

For transparency Cllr S Bartlett declared that he was a director of BH Live and BH Live Enterprises, these appointments being on the public record and published on the Council website. He was appointed to these positions by BCP Council and did not receive any remuneration.

Cllr M Gillett declared that he was Chair of the Lower Central Gardens Trust Board, for which he did not receive any remuneration and this was also published on the Council website.

Once they had addressed the Committee, Cllr Bartlett and Cllr Gillett left the room for the remainder of the meeting.

To confirm and sign as a correct record the minutes of the meeting held on 26 September 2024.

The minutes of the meeting held on 26 September were approved as a correct record for the Chair to sign.

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 on Wednesday 23 October 2024 [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=613

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.

Anyone who has registered to speak by the deadline may, as an alternative to speaking/for use in default, submit a written statement to be read out on their behalf. This must be provided to Democratic Services by 10.00am of the working day before the meeting, 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 requests to speak on the Lower Pleasure Gardens application which would be dealt with under that item.

To consider the planning application listed below.

See planning application report 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 Chair 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 a planning application report, a copy of which had been circulated and which appears as Appendix to these minutes in the Minute Book. A Committee Addendum Sheet was published on 23 October 2024 and appears as Appendix B to these minutes.

Bournemouth Central Ward

7-2024-15989-AO

Temporary installation of winter ice rink with cafe/bar attached (temporary period from 28^th October 2024 to 25th January 2025 including the installation and removal of structures).

Bournemouth Central ward

7-2024-15898-AO

Temporary installation of winter ice rink with cafe/bar attached (temporary period from 28th October 2024 to 25th January 2025 including the installation and removal of structures).

Public Representations:

Objectors

v  None registered

Applicant/Supporters

v  Simon Smith, applicant

Ward/Other Councillors

v  Cllr Stephen Bartlett, objecting

v  Cllr Matthew Gillett, in support

Resolved to GRANT permission in accordance with the recommendation set out in the officer’s report, including the correction in respect of the application number in the Committee Addendum published on 23.10.24, and subject to the following additional condition requested by the Committee:

• No part of the development hereby permitted shall be made open to any customer unless a scheme for the replanting / reseeding of the land on which the application is situated that seeks to minimise any bare patches within a period of 4 months and make the land suitable for general recreational purposes has first been submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority.  The approved scheme shall thereafter be accorded with.

Reason for additional condition – To ensure that suitable measures are in place to address the Committee’s concerns around the satisfactory restoration of the land on which the ice rink is situated.

Voting: For – 9, Against – 0, Abstain – 0