Agenda and decisions

Planning Control Committee - Thursday, 6th March, 2025 7.00 pm

Venue: Council Chamber, District Council Offices, Gernon Road, Letchworth Garden City, SG6 3JF

Contact: committee services - 01462 474655  Email: committee.services@north-herts.gov.uk

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Items
No. Item

1.

APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE

Members are required to notify any substitutions by midday on the day of the meeting.

 

Late substitutions will not be accepted and Members attending as a substitute without having given the due notice will not be able to take part in the meeting.

Decision:

Apologies for absence were received from Councillors Ruth Brown and Sadie Billing.

2.

MINUTES 30 JANUARY 2025 pdf icon PDF 325 KB

To take as read and approve as a true record the minutes of the meeting of the Committee held on the 30 January 2025.

Decision:

The Chair advised that the Minutes from the 30 January 2025 were added to the Agenda in error and had been approved at the Planning Control Committee meeting on 25 February 2025.

 

3.

NOTIFICATION OF OTHER BUSINESS

Members should notify the Chair of other business which they wish to be discussed at the end of either Part I or Part II business set out in the agenda. They must state the circumstances which they consider justify the business being considered as a matter of urgency.

 

The Chair will decide whether any item(s) raised will be considered.

Decision:

There was no other business notified.

4.

CHAIR'S ANNOUNCEMENTS

Members are reminded that any declarations of interest in respect of any business set out in the agenda, should be declared as either a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest or Declarable Interest and are required to notify the Chair of the nature of any interest declared at the commencement of the relevant item on the agenda.  Members declaring a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest must withdraw from the meeting for the duration of the item. Members declaring a Declarable Interest, wishing to exercise a ‘Councillor Speaking Right’, must declare this at the same time as the interest, move to the public area before speaking to the item and then must leave the room before the debate and vote.

Decision:

(1)  The Chair advised that, in accordance with Council Policy, the meeting would be recorded.

 

(2)  The Chair drew attention to the item on the agenda front pages regarding Declarations of Interest and reminded Members that, in line with the Code of Conduct, any Declarations of Interest needed to be declared immediately prior to the item in question.

 

(3)  The Chair clarified matters for the registered speakers.

 

(4)  The Chair advised that Section 4.8.23(a) of the Constitution applied to the meeting.

5.

PUBLIC PARTICIPATION

To receive petitions, comments and questions from the public.

Decision:

The Chair confirmed that the registered speakers were in attendance.

6.

TPO/0215 Land on the North Side of Baldock Road, Royston, Herts, SG8 9NT pdf icon PDF 349 KB

REPORT OF THE DEVELOPMENT AND CONSERVATION MANAGER

To consider the confirmation of Tree Preservation Order TPO/00215 (2024).

Additional documents:

Decision:

RESOLVED: That a decision on the confirmation of TPO/00215 be DEFERRED to allow for a new provisional Tree Preservation Order to be issued with an amended plan that provided for a revision in the extent of the land covered by a TPO.

7.

24/02343/FP Church Wood, Three Houses Lane, Codicote, Hertfordshire pdf icon PDF 601 KB

REPORT OF THE DEVELOPMENT AND CONSERVATION MANAGER

Change of use of existing site from agricultural to use Class B8 (Storage and Distribution). Extensions and alterations to existing barns; erection of detached temporary structure of three years and supporting substation and concrete base. Installation of hardstanding for outside storage and parking and installation of electric front entrance gates. Drainage pond and associated outfall pipe, alterations to surface access track (Development has commenced).

Additional documents:

Decision:

RESOLVED: That application 24/02343/FPP be REFUSED subject to the reasons set out in the report of the Development and Conservation Manage and supplementary document.