Agenda item

Planning Application 17/01183/FUL - Orchard Land Adjoining Rowans, Stembridge, Martock.

Minutes:

(Councillor Clare Aparicio Paul, having declared a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest, had left the meeting earlier prior to consideration of this planning application).

Proposal: Retention of timber pony shelter.

The Area Lead presented the application as detailed in the agenda. He updated members that the report incorrectly referred to a single person making representations when in fact there were also two others.

He provided members with an overview of the proposal noting the previous permission had been for a concrete plinth. The original idea had been to move the shelter around the site but this had since proven to be difficult, and hence the applicant was now seeking permission to permanently retain the shelter in its current position.

It was acknowledged there was ownership an dispute about a boundary but this was a private matter for the applicant and neighbour to resolve. There were no planning concerns regarding the location of the shelter.

There being no discussion it was proposed to approve the application as per the officer recommendation. On being put to the vote, the proposal was carried unanimously.

RESOLVED:

That planning application 17/01183/FUL be APPROVED as per the officer recommendation:

Justification:

The proposed development, by reasons of its nature, siting, scale and materials, is not considered to cause any demonstrable harm to visual amenity, residential amenity or highway safety and as such is in accordance with the aims and objectives of policies SD1, EQ2 and EQ8 of the South Somerset Local Plan and the provisions of the National Planning Policy Framework.

Subject to the following:

01. The development hereby permitted shall be begun before the expiration of three years from the date of this permission.

Reason: To accord with the provisions of section 91(1) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.

02. The development hereby permitted shall be carried out in accordance with the location plan received 02/03/2017 and email from the applicant (Clare Paul) dated 03/03/2017 and accompanying photograph.

Reason: For the avoidance of doubt and in the interests of proper planning.

03. The development hereby permitted shall be used for private and domestic equestrian purposes only and shall not be used for any business or commercial use.

Reason: In the interests of local amenities to accord with policies EQ2 and EQ8 of the South Somerset Local Plan.

04. Any surface water run-off generated by the development hereby permitted shall be disposed of either by water butts or soakaways, unless otherwise agreed in writing by the local planning authority.

Reason: To minimise any increased surface water runoff in the interest of the environment to accord with policy EQ7 of the South Somerset Local Plan and the provisions of the NPPF.

Informatives:

01. The applicant is advised that the granting of planning consent does not supersede any land ownership or rights of access queries that may be ongoing and that such matters must be dealt with separately between the relevant interested parties.

(Voting: Unanimous)

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