Minutes of the Meeting of Odiham Parish Council
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MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF ODIHAM PARISH COUNCIL PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE HELD IN THE PARISH ROOM, THE BURY, ODIHAM ON MONDAY 5 JANUARY 2015 COMMENCING AT 7:30PM Present: Cllrs Fleming (Chairman), Faulkner (from 7:45pm), Fellows, Hale, O’Neill and Robinson-Giannasi In attendance: Mrs Tilt (Deputy Clerk) Also present: 5 members of the public 161/14 RECEIVE AND ACCEPT APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE Apologies were received from District Cllrs Crookes and Kennett 162/14 DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST RELATING TO ANY ITEM ON THE AGENDA Cllr Fleming declared a non-pecuniary interest in item 165/14 – Down Farm, Land East of Hook Road, Castle Bridge House and The Chilli Pad. Cllr Fellows declared a non-pecuniary interest in item 165/14 – Sixpenny Cottage. 163/14 CHAIRMAN’S ANNOUNCEMENTS It was confirmed that the Neighbourhood Plan Group consultation invitations have been sent out to everyone in the community. Cllrs are strongly encouraged to come along as well. It was announced that Hart DC is currently going through the process of removing certain rights within the large field to the left of the dual-carriageway, where the B3349 and A287 join, between North Warnborough and the M3. 164/14 PREVIOUS PLANNING APPLICATIONS Case: 14/02546/LBC Address: Manisty Cottage, 19 High Street, Odiham, Hook, RG29 1LE Description: Remove modern internal ground floor blockwork wall. Install timber post midway along line of removed wall to support historic trimmer beam, wall and floor above. Insert steel beam between joists within floor depth to support newel post above. (Amendments to 14/00745/LBC) Decision: Grant listed building consent OPC Comment: Odiham parish council leaves it to the Conservation Officer to provide suitable advice. Case: 14/02450/HMC Address: Willow Tree House, 17 Archery Fields, Odiham, Hook, Hampshire RG29 1AE Description: Erection of single storey flat roof extension and alterations Decision: Grant permission OPC Comment: Odiham parish council raises no objection to this planning application. Case: 14/02524/HMC Address: Sunray, Colt Hill, Odiham, Hook, Hampshire RG29 1AN Description: Erection of a single storey rear extension and increase in roof height and formation of 1 window, 5 dormer windows and 2 velux windows to create three new bedrooms in the roof space Decision: Grant permission 1 of 13 150105 Planning Minutes OPC Comment: OPC objects to this application on the basis that it is still proposing much too large an extension, which would wholly alter the scale of the existing property and its relationship with its neighbours and with the street scene. As such it will adversely affect the amenity of all its neighbours - at both sides, front and rear. We believe it to be un-neighbourly over-development which is out of keeping with the character of this part of London Road. We also consider that a 6 bedroomed property on this small plot will be unable to meet its own parking requirements on site, greatly exacerbating the narrow and already congested London Road where parking is already a major problem. In summary this is over-development. Case: 14/02434/HMC Address: 6 Coronation Close, Odiham, Hook RG29 1AD Description: Erection of a two storey side extension to provide attached annex for dependant relative. Erection of front porch Decision: Grant permission OPC Comment: Odiham parish council comments that these plans remove side access to the property and access to upstairs is contrived. The council questions how real an annexe it is. Is it going to be part of the main residence or something separate? Case: 14/02583/HMC Address: The Cottage, Whitehall, Odiham, Hook, Hampshire RG29 1JP Description: Erection of a two storey side and rear extension following demolition of garage/workshop Decision: Grant permission OPC Comment: Odiham parish council raises no objection to this planning application. Case: 14/02389/FUL Address: The Penarth Stud, Farnham Road, Odiham, Hook, Hampshire RG29 1HR Description: replacement and extension of existing sand school to give an exercise area 50mx20m (no floodlighting is required or proposed Decision: Grant permission OPC Comment: Odiham parish council does not object to this application, but that is on the basis that there is to be no flood lighting, as stated. It would however like to comment that a drainage study should be carried out to ensure that no contamination of the Broadoak stream (which runs into the canal) will occur from any run off from the school, as this site is subject to inundation. Odiham parish council also recommends that the transport study is looked at again against the stated use of the horses for shows and fetes, all clearly off site. It further comments that the condition for private use and not commercial use also be retained. Additionally, can confirmation be given that neighbours have been consulted? 165/14 CURRENT PLANNING APPLICATIONS Case: 14/02659/LBC & 14/02670/HMC Address: Sixpenny Cottage, 3 West Street, Odiham, Hook, Hampshire RG29 1NR Description: Refurbishment of the building to include replacement windows on the front elevation and new canopy porch as well as internal alterations. Decision: Odiham parish council leaves it to the Conservation Officer to provide suitable advice. Case: 14/02945/LBC Address: Pear Tree Cottage, The Bury, Odiham, Hook, Hampshire RG29 1LY Description: Erection of garden wall and gate to form enclosed garden area. Decision: Odiham parish council raises no objection to this planning application. Case: 14/02938/HMC Address: Close Cottage, Alton Road, Odiham, Hook, Hampshire RG29 1PH Description: single story side extension. Removal of conservatory and outbuilding. Internal reconfiguring. 2 of 13 150105 Planning Minutes Decision: Odiham parish council objects to this planning application for the following reasons:- This is a listed building where its scale is an integral part of its function as a gatehouse. The proposed addition is overwhelming. The building currently looks like the gatehouse it was, but the proposed extension would introduce an unacceptable level of visual ambiguity. The extension is not required to make the house habitable or more commodious for modern living; the house can continue to function as a house perfectly well without the extension. If an extension is to be considered, a more pleasing approach would be to put one at the rear. It is a charming building, partly because of its scale. The extension would reduce its charm in an area of Odiham that has been acknowledged on a number of occasions as being particularly precious. There are very few listed buildings in Odiham from the 19th century so we should protect what there is with vigour. Case: 14/02800/MAJOR Address: Down Farm, The Firs, Odiham, Hook RG29 1PP Description: Erection of 17 dwellings with new vehicular access and internal road. Decision: A resident spoke for 3 minutes objecting to this planning application. Odiham parish council objects to this application. The application seeks to exploit the lack of a Hart Local Plan to put houses where they would never previously have been allowed. It is moreover an attempt to put houses where they would very unlikely be allowed once Hart does have a Local Plan, unless one is to believe that the relevant Hart policies, as outlined in its decision respecting 12/00540/FUL Erection of new dwelling and alteration to existing access, Clump House The Firs Odiham, and as upheld by an Inspector, will be voluntarily jettisoned by Hart. In fact, the very opportunism of the application merely serves to accentuate the weakness of the case for it. Our objection is for the following reasons: 1. There has been no public consultation despite this being strongly promoted by the NPPF The applicant quotes extensively from the NPPF, even including in his Planning, Design and Access Statement a section entitled ‘Conformity with the National Planning Policy Framework’. He makes no mention however of public consultation which, whilst not mandatory, is strongly promoted by the NPPF in sections 66 and 189: Section 66 Applicants will be expected to work closely with those directly affected by their proposals to evolve designs that take account of the views of the community. Proposals that can demonstrate this in developing the design of the new development should be looked on more favourably Section 189 Local planning authorities have a key role to play in encouraging other parties to take maximum advantage of the pre-application stage. They cannot require that a developer engages with them before submitting a planning application, but they should encourage take-up of any pre-application services they do offer. They should also, where they think this would be beneficial, encourage any applicants who are not already required to do so by law to engage with the local community before submitting their applications. Note that the NPPF even goes so far as to say in Section 66: ‘Proposals that can demonstrate this in developing the design of the new development should be looked on more favourably’. This proposal should therefore be looked on less 3 of 13 150105 Planning Minutes favourably than it would otherwise be. We have no knowledge of any pre- application advice being sought by the developer and so, if this is the case, we would highlight this deficiency in the application. The applicant is demonstrably failing to comply with the spirit of the NPPF. Furthermore, by failing even to attempt to address two whole sections of the NPPF, it would appear the applicant is either displaying a technical lack of understanding of the very document by which this application will be decided or else has chosen to address only parts of it. 2. Sustainability The applicant claims in section 3.4 that the site is sustainable because it is ‘comfortably’ within walking and cycling distance of Odiham and there are ‘good bus services’.