D-Ring Road: the Town Clerk Submitted a Comprehensive Report
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FINANCE 1224 The Sub-Committee, having considered an application for a mortgage advance, pursuant to section 4 of the Housing Act, 1949, together with a valuation of the property concerned, RESOLVED: (a) That, subject to the Town Clerk being satisfied as to the title, to the conditions set out in the Council's loan advance scheme; and to satisfac tory references, an offer of a mortgage advance be made as indicated below; and (b) that the Town Clerk be hereby instructed to prepare and execute all legal documents as may be necessary in this matter:— Case No. Purchase Amount of Amount Period of repay- Price advance offered ment and method applied for £ £ £ 32 ... 2,950 ... 2,650 ... 2,650 ... 20 years'annuity. PLANNING COMMITTEE: 31st December, 1954. Present: Councillor Cutler (in the Chair); Aldermen Ellement and Leigh, J.P., C.C.; Councillors Adkins, Buckle, Mrs. Burton, Campbell Alien, Gibbons, Jenkins, Pye and Spurway. PART I.—RECOMMENDATIONS.—NIL. PART II.—MINUTES. 142. Minutes: RESOLVED: That the signing of the minutes of the meeting of 3rd December, 1954, be deferred until they are printed. 143. Town and Country Planning (Development by Local Planning Authorities) Regulations, 1951 : RESOLVED : That the following observations be submitted to the Middlesex County Council in respect of the under-mentioned develop ment proposed to be carried out in the Borough:— (a) Erection by the Eastern Electricity Board of an outdoor type electricity sub-station at Broomfield Estate, Stanmore Hill. Observations: The site proposed is unsatisfactory and the Committee recommend that permission be refused. (b) Erection of two temporary huts at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore, in respect of which the Committee raised no objection in June, 1954. This further application provides for the re-siting of the two huts, and for a temporary access to Wood Lane. Observations: No objections, subject to retention of the existing screen of trees, and to no felling of trees for the construction of the temporary access to Wood Lane. 144. County Development Plan: D-Ring Road: The Town Clerk submitted a comprehensive report (10th December, 1954) in this matter, which had also been submitted to the Highways and Cleansing Committee. He reported that the latter Committee approve the suggestion contained in the last paragraph of the report, namely, that he be instructed to ask both the Minister 1225 PLANNING of Housing and Local Government and the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation to hold a public local Inquiry in order to give the widest publicity to the proposals before any final decision is taken in the matter. The Town Clerk also submitted the decision of the Minister of Housing and Local Government to allow an appeal against the former District Council's refusal to permit the erection of dwellinghouses, a public house, and ten shops with flats over, at Pinnerwood Park Estate, Hatch End, and which includes land reserved in the Middlesex County Development Plan for a section of the route of the proposed D-Ring Road. RESOLVED: That the above-mentioned report and Ministerial decision be received; that the Committee hereby concur with the Highways and Cleansing Committee, in adopting the Town Clerk's suggestion that the Minister of Housing and Local Government and the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation be asked to hold a public local Inquiry, in order to publicise the various proposals, before a final decision is taken. 145. Middlesex County Council: Proposed General Powers Bill, 1955/56: With reference to the Middlesex County Council's proposal to promote, in the 1955/56 Session of Parliament, a General Powers Bill containing (inter alia) provisions which can be administered or enforced by councils of county district councils in Middlesex, the Town Clerk reported that the General Purposes Committee ask for the observations of this Committee upon a suggestion that the proposed Bill should contain a clause to regulate the unauthorised parking of caravans. The Town Clerk reported generally in the matter. RESOLVED: That the General Purposes Committee be recommended to approve the inclusion of a clause in the proposed General Powers Bill incorporating the powers contained in section 344 of the Middlesex County Council Act, 1944 (Moveable Dwellings), and to consider recommending the County Council also to include in the Bill a clause providing for the control and regulation of unauthorised parking of unoccupied caravans and motor vehicles within the curtilage of dwellinghouses, etc. 146. 104, Station Road, Harrow: Resolution 132 (3rd December, 1954): The Town Clerk reported in regard to the legal position affecting the use of the forecourt of these premises for retail business purposes, and he submitted a letter (15th December, 1954) from the Clerk to the Middlesex County Council forwarding Counsel's Opinion on the question of trading on forecourts. RESOLVED: That the report and Opinion be received and approved; that, in view of the purport of the above-mentioned Opinion, the Highways and Cleansing Committee be asked to recommend the Middlesex County Council, as the Highway Authority concerned, to consider acquiring the forecourt of 104, Station Road, Harrow; and that the General Purposes Committee be asked to consider recommending the County Council to arrange for the inclusion of a clause in the proposed General Powers Bill, referred to in resolution 145, to provide for the regulation of trading from forecourts. [47. Engineering Works, Tyburn Lane, Harrow: Resolution 84 (8th October, 1954): The Town Clerk reported that the Committee refused an application from Walter Mayfair Display & Engineering Co. Ltd. for planning permission PLANNING 1226 to use these premises for industrial purposes, on the grounds that the proposal constituted the intrusion of an industrial use within an area defined for shopping purposes. The Town Clerk submitted a letter from the agents to the Company, stating that their clients have entered into an agreement to lease factory premises, in course of construction at Eastcote, which the Company hope to occupy about the middle of February, 1955. The Town Clerk also submitted a letter (30th December, 1954) from a Member, forwarding a further complaint from a nearby resident of the noise and nuisance arising from these works. RESOLVED: That, having regard to the Company's intention to move to Eastcote, in February, 1955, the Committee defer consideration of the question of serving an Enforcement Notice in this case. 148. Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) Regulations, 1948 (as Amended): The Alpine Restaurant, High Road, Bushey Heath: The Borough Engineer submitted an application from the occupier of these premises for reconsideration of the Committee's decision to refuse per mission for the display of an advertisement at these premises (No. 116a: attached to a tree), reading " Luncheons and Teas," permission having been refused following " challenge " procedure. RESOLVED: That the above-mentioned applicant be informed that, whilst adhering to their previous decision in so far as the advertisement referred to above is concerned, the Committee would be prepared to consider a modified proposal in lieu thereof. 149. Anglesmede Crescent: Two Proposed Maisonettes: The Borough Engineer submitted a request from the applicant asking the Committee to reconsider their decision to refuse planning permission for the erection of two maison ettes at Angelsmede Crescent, on the grounds that the proposal would not be in keeping with the surrounding locality of dwellinghouses only. RESOLVED: That the applicant be informed that the Committee re-affirm their previous decision in this case. 150. 83, High Street, Edgware: Sausage Factory: The Borough Engineer submitted a letter (14th December, 1954) from the applicant asking the Committee to reconsider, in the light of the information contained therein, their decision to refuse planning permission for the provision of a meat preparation room and sausage factory (to replace existing buildings) at the rear of these premises, on the grounds that the proposed development was excessive. RESOLVED: That the applicant be informed that, although the Committee re-affirm their decision in so far as the application above-mentioned is concerned, they would be prepared to consider a comprehensive scheme embracing the whole of the land at the junction of Whitchurch Lane and High Street, Edgware, for the ultimate improvement of that area. 151. Proposed Use of Red House, Middle Road, Harrow-on-the-Hill by Lower School of John Lyon: RESOLVED: That the Bursar of Harrow School be informed that the Committee would be prepared favourably to consider an application for planning permission in respect of the suggested use of these premises for school purposes. 1227 PLANNING 152. Determinations Under Section 17 of the Town and Country Planning Act, 1947: The Town Clerk submitted the following applications for determinations, under section 17 of the Town and Country Planning Act, 1947, as to whether the proposed changes of use constitute development within the meaning of the Act, viz.:— (a) proposed use of property known as Jax Garage, Peel Road, for light engineering; and (b) proposed use of 13, Roxborough Park (formerly a nursing home) for boarding pupils from the Harrow College for Girls under care of a resident Matron. RESOLVED: That, on the understanding that, in regard to (a) above, the proposed use of Jax Garage, Peel Road, Wealdstone, for light engineering work falls within Class III (use as a light industrial building) of the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order, 1950, the Town Clerk be in structed to inform the above-mentioned applicants that the Committee hereby determine that the proposals outlined above would not involve " development" within the meaning of the Town and Country Planning Act, 1947, and the Regulations made thereunder. 153. Alleged Planning Contraventions: Garages, Springfield Road, Rear of Properties in Welldon Crescent: RESOLVED: That the Committee defer taking enforcement action in these cases pending consideration of an application for development of the site as a whole.