CITY AND COUNTY OF SWANSEA NOTICE OF MEETING You are invited to attend a Meeting of the AREA 2 DEVELOPMENT CONTROL COMMITTEE At: Council Chamber, Civic Centre, SWANSEA On: Tuesday 30th August 2011 Time: 2.00p.m. Members are asked to contact John Lock (Planning Control Manager) on 635731 or Phil Baxter on 635733 should they wish to have submitted plans and other images of any of the applications on this agenda to be available for display at the Committee meeting. AGENDA 1. Apologies for Absence. 2. Declarations of Interest To receive Disclosures of Personal and Prejudicial Interests from Members in accordance with the provisions of the Code of Conduct adopted by the City and County of Swansea. (NOTE: Members are requested to identify the Agenda Item /minute number/ planning application number and subject matter that their interest relates). 3. To approve as a correct record the Minutes of the meeting of the Area 2 Development Control Committee held on 2nd August 2011. FOR DECISION 4. Town and Country Planning - Planning Applications:- (a) Items for deferral/withdrawal. (b) Requests for Site Visits. (c) Determination of Planning Applications. 5. Tree Preservation Order No 555 6. Appeals Information Report. 7. Enforcement Information Report. 8. Exclusion of the Public. The Proper Officer has determined in preparing item that paragraph 18 should apply. His view on the public interest test was that the authority’s statutory powers could be rendered ineffective or less effective were there to be advance knowledge of it’s intention/ the proper exercise of the Council’s statutory power could be prejudiced by public discussion or speculation on the matter to the detriment of the authority and the inhabitants of the area. On that basis he felt that the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information. Members are asked to consider this factor when determining the public interest test, which they must decide when considering excluding the public from this part of the meeting. Members are asked to consider this factor when determining the public interest test, which they must decide when considering excluding the public. 9. Enforcement Progress Report. Patrick Arran Head of Legal, Democratic Services & Procurement 23rd August 2011 Contact: Democratic Services 01792 636820 ACCESS TO INFORMATION LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1972 (SECTION 100) (AS AMENDED) (NOTE: The documents and files used in the preparation of this Schedule of Planning Applications are identified in the ‘Background Information’ Section of each report. The Application files will be available in the committee room for half an hour before the start of the meeting, to enable Members to inspect the contents) Item No. 2 Disclosures of Personal Interest from Members To receive Disclosures of Personal Interest from Members in accordance with the provisions of the Code of Conduct adopted by the City and County of Swansea. You must disclose orally to the meeting the existence and nature of that interest. NOTE: You are requested to identify the Agenda Item / Minute No. / Planning Application No. and Subject Matter to which that interest relates and to enter all declared interests on the sheet provided for that purpose at the meeting. 1. If you have a Personal Interest as set out in Paragraph 10 of the Code, you MAY STAY, SPEAK AND VOTE unless it is also a Prejudicial Interest. 2. If you have a Personal Interest which is also a Prejudicial Interest as set out in Paragraph 12 of the Code, then subject to point 3 below, you MUST WITHDRAW from the meeting (unless you have obtained a dispensation from the Authority’s Standards Committee) 3. Where you have a Prejudicial Interest you may attend the meeting but only for the purpose of making representations, answering questions or giving evidence relating to the business, provided that the public are also allowed to attend the meeting for the same purpose, whether under a statutory right or otherwise. In such a case, you must withdraw from the meeting immediately after the period for making representations, answering questions, or giving evidence relating to the business has ended, and in any event before further consideration of the business begins, whether or not the public are allowed to remain in attendance for such consideration (Paragraph 14 of the Code). 4. Where you have agreement from the Monitoring Officer that the information relating to your Personal Interest is sensitive information, as set out in Paragraph 16 of the Code of Conduct, your obligation to disclose such information is replaced with an obligation to disclose the existence of a personal interest and to confirm that the Monitoring Officer has agreed that the nature of such personal interest is sensitive information. 5. If you are relying on a grant of a dispensation by the Standards Committee, you must, before the matter is under consideration: (i) disclose orally both the interest concerned and the existence of the dispensation; and (ii) before or immediately after the close of the meeting give written notification to the Authority containing - - details of the prejudicial interest; - details of the business to which the prejudicial interest relates; - details of, and the date on which, the dispensation was granted; and - your signature Z:\Committees\A Agenda Pack\Cttees\Area 2\2008-09\08jun24\02 - Disclosures of Personal Interest.doc Item No. 3 CITY AND COUNTY OF SWANSEA MINUTES OF THE AREA 2 DEVELOPMENT CONTROL COMMITTEE HELD AT THE CIVIC CENTRE, SWANSEA ON TUESDAY 2ND AUGUST 2011 AT 2.00 P.M. PRESENT: Councillor D P Tucker (Chairman) presided Councillor(s): Councillor(s): Councillor(s): N S Bradley D I E Jones J Newbury A C S Colburn J W Jones C L Philpott A M Day S M Jones T H Rees W Evans R D Lewis J C Richards E W Fitzgerald K E Marsh G Seabourne M E Gibbs P M Meara C M R W D Thomas N A Holley W K Morgan 23. APOLOGIES Apologies for absence were received from Councillors V A Bates- Hughes, B J Hynes, J B Kelleher, E T Kirchner, M H Jones and R J Stanton. 24. DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST In accordance with the provisions of the Code of Conduct adopted by the City and County of Swansea, the following interests were declared: Councillor D P Tucker - personal and prejudicial - Item 3 (2011/0056) - applicant is a business associate - left the meeting during consideration of this item. Councillor J Newbury - personal - Item 9 (2011/0173) - I know the applicant well and I socialise with him on occasions. Item 5 (2007/2097) - I am a member of Loughor RFC and know a number of the applicants involved in the application - personal. 25. MINUTES RESOLVED that the Minutes of the Area 2 Development Control Committee held on 5th July 2011 be agreed as a correct record pending the following amendments: • List Councillor J C Richards in Members who provided apologies as opposed to Councillor C R Richards listed. • Application 2011/0418 - delete reference to applicant as Mr McWilliams and replace with Mr D Thomas. Minutes of the Area 2 Development Control Committee (02.08.11) 26. ITEMS FOR DEFERRAL/WITHDRAWAL There were none. 27. ITEMS DEFERRED FOR SITE VISITS RESOLVED that the undermentioned planning applications BE DEFERRED for SITE VISITS for the reasons outlined below: (Item 4) Application No 2010/0092 Detached dwelling with integral garage at Plot 1, Plenty Farm, Llangennith, Swansea. Reason To view the site within the context of the mix of housing styles already in the village. (Item 10) Application No. 2011/0235 Detached dwelling (outline) at land adjacent to Ty Croeso, Salt House Point, Crofty, Swansea. Reason To assess the site without the context of sounding area and settlement boundaries. (Item 11) Application No. 2011/0309 Change of use of retail unit (Class A1) to hot food takeaway (Class A3) at Unit 1, 908 Carmarthen Road, Fforestfach, Swansea. Reason To assess potential traffic and car parking problems. (Item 12) Application No. 2011/0364 Four detached dwellings with detached garages (outline) at Morfryn, St Anne’s Close, Langland, Swansea. Minutes of the Area 2 Development Control Committee (02.08.11) Reason To view the site and location and character of surrounding area. (Item 13) Application No. 2011/0570 Variation of Condition 6 of planning permission 77/0743 granted 25th August 1977 to allow twelve months occupancy at 4, Langcliffe Park, Mumbles, Swansea. Reason To view the site and location and assess the property with regard to the size of rear garden and internal facilities. (Item 14) Application No. 2011/0745 Change of use from retail shop (Class A1) to coffee shop (Class A3) at 29b, Gower Road, Sketty, Swansea. Reason To assess the site and shop location within the context of surrounding retail area. 28. SCHEDULE OF PLANNING APPLICATIONS UNDER THE TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990 The Planning Control Manager submitted a schedule of outline applications, reserved matters and planning applications. Amendments to this schedule were reported and are indicated below by (#). RESOLVED that: (1) the undermentioned planning applications BE APPROVED subject to the conditions in the report and/or indicated below: (#) (Item 1) Application No. 2011/0083 Demolition of existing garage/workshop and construction of new garage at 45, Castle Road, Mumbles, Swansea. Minutes of the Area 2 Development Control Committee (02.08.11) (NOTE: • Amendment to Condition No. 2: “Details and samples of all external finishes shall be submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority in writing before the development is commenced. The scheme shall be implemented in accordance with the approved details”. • A visual presentation was provided for Members.) (Item 2) Application No. 2010/0271 Detached dwelling (outline) at 158, Gorseinon Road, Penllergaer, Swansea.