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Agenda for Development Control and Regulation Committee on Tuesday, 8th May, 2012, 11.00 am : Cumbria County Council
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Development Control and Regulation CommitteeTuesday, 8th May, 2012 11.00 am
PDF 235 KB Agenda reports pack
PDF 94 KB Venue: Council Chamber - County Offices, Kendal, LA9 4RQ. View directions
Contact: Janine Hounslow Email: janine.hounslow@cumbria.gov.uk
Aplologies for absence were received from Mr W
Bleasldale, Mr N Clarkson, Mr J Holliday and Mrs V Tarbitt.
Mrs S Brown and Mr N Marriner replaced Mr N
Clarkson and Mr W Bleasdale respectively as members of the
Committee for this meeting only.
To disclose any personal and prejudicial
interests relating to any item on the agenda.
NB The following
is a summary of what constitutes a personal interest and a personal
and prejudicial interest. Please seek
advice or refer to the Code of
Conduct (paragraph 8) for full definitions.
have a personal interest if the issue being discussed in the
meeting affects the well-being or finances of you, your family or
your close associates more than most other people who live in the
Electoral Division affected by the issue. Personal interests are also things that relate to an interest
N.B. If the personal interest arises because of your membership
of another public body, you only need to declare it if you intend
A personal interest should be
I have a personal interest in agenda item
[…] regarding the report on […] because I am
and Prejudicial Interests
have a personal interest in a matter you will also have a
prejudicial interest in that matter if the interest is one which a
member of the public, with knowledge of the relevant facts, would
reasonably regard as so significant that it is likely to prejudice
your judgement of the public
interest. If you have a
personal and prejudicial interest you must withdraw
from the meeting room for that item, unless you are there to make
representations and the public have the same opportunity to do
only have a prejudicial interest if the matter
financial position or that of your family, close associate,
employer etc or it
A personal and prejudicial
interest should be declared as follows:
I have a personal and prejudicial interest in
agenda item […] regarding the report on […] because I
am […].
Advice on this can be sought
from staff in Legal and Democratic Services. Members are requested to seek advice, wherever
possible, before the meeting starts.
Mrs S Brown declared a personal interest in
Agenda Item No. 9(a) Planning Application No. 4/10/9001 as Chair of
the Low Level Waste Repository site Stakeholder Group.
press and public should be excluded from the meeting during
consideration of any item on the agenda.
RESOLVED, that the press and public
be not excluded from the meeting during consideration of any items
Minutes PDF 176 KB To confirm as a correct record
the Minutes of a meeting held on 28 March 2012 (copy
Minute No. 113 referred to the Regional
Spatial Strategy having been revoked but this had not yet
RESOLVED, that the minutes of the
meeting held on 28 March 2012 be confirmed as a correct record and
HIGHWAYS ACT 1980 SECTION 119 - APPLICATION TO DIVERT PUBLIC FOOTPATH NO 346005 PARISH OF MILBURN: DISTRICT OF EDEN PDF 303 KB The County Council propose to divert a section of public
footpath no 346005 in the parish of Milburn for the benefit of the
RESOLVED, that the Senior Manager
– Legal Practice be authorised to make a Diversion Order
under Section 119 of the Highways Act 1980 to divert that section
of public footpath no 346005 in the parish of Milburn shown A-B-C
as shown on the plan at Appendix A and to take all the necessary
action to confirm the order.
HIGHWAYS ACT 1980 SECTION 119 - APPLICATION TO DIVERT PUBLIC BRIDLEWAY NOS 359073 & 359081 PARISH OF RAVENSTONEDALE: DISTRICT OF EDEN PDF 317 KB An
application has been received from the landowner to divert sections
of public bridleway no 359073 and 359081 in the parish of
(i) public bridleway no 359073 in the parish of Ravenstonedale shown A-F to a new route shown
A-B-C-D-E-F; and
(ii) public bridleway no 359081 in the parish of Ravenstonedale shown G-H to a new route G-F as
shown on the plan at Appendix A and to take all necessary action to
APPEAL DECISION – LOW ROW BARN, LOW ROW, LUPTON, CUMBRIA, LA6 2PZ PDF 250 KB Permission was refused in May 2011 for Improvement to
agricultural land and new land drainage at Low Row Barn, Low Row,
Lupton, Cumbria. The applicant appealed under
Section 78 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 and this
report gives the Inspectors decision.
RESOLVED, that the report be
Reports on Applications for Planning Permission PDF 16 KB These are applications which
are determined by the County Council after taking into account the
views of consultees and relevant
representations. Applications in this
category are prescribed by legislation. Private applications
principally relate to minerals and waste management activities and
associated development. County applications are developments which
are to be carried out by the County Council itself or jointly with
Planning Application No. 4/10/9001 Development of a waste management facility for the disposal of low and very low level radioactive waste including site restoration and ancillary development, Keekle Head Former Opencast Coal Site, Pica, Whitehaven, CA14 4QL PDF 1 MB Minutes:
The Senior Planning Officer presented the
report and stated that the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA)
wanted all nuclear sites, where possible, to keep low level waste
(LLW) and very low level waste (VLLW) on their own
sites. The application before members
was contrary to those objectives and sequential preferable
options. There was no need for a
further LLW disposal facility in Cumbria or elsewhere in the UK
until at least 2030. Potentially, waste
could be brought onto the site from further afield but it would not
be possible to put conditions on that. The only means of getting to the site was by road as there were no
rail links (unlike Sellafield) and
would generate unnecessary road miles. There would be a direct loss of Priority Habitat within the
Sandbeds Meadows County Wildlife Site
and no proposal had been put forward to mitigate that
loss. The impact on the landscape
character and visual receptors in the vicinity of the site would
also be unacceptable and contrary to policy.
The Committee were then addressed by objectors
to the application Marianne Birkby
(Radiation Free Lakeland), Paul Cowling; Kevin Bell (local
resident); and Cam Ross (Local Member).
Ms Birkby made the
A change to Government policy in
March 2007, meant that the large-scale dumping of nuclear waste in
landfill/mines was now allowed. In
March 2010 Northamptonshire county councillors unanimously rejected
a plan for a nuclear landfill site but it was later overturned by
the Government’s Communities Secretary, Eric
Pickles. The only long term assurance
that landfill sites and old mines would be safe from radioactive
contamination was to urge the government to reinstate the law
preventing the large scale dumping of nuclear wastes away from the
· Radiation Free Lakeland restated their support for Cumbria County
Council’s position “opposition to radioactive wastes
being spread around Cumbria” an entirely rational response to
the Keekle application but believed the
“expression of interest” in a geological dump for high
level wastes looked even more bonkers to the outside world
· Deregulation of the nuclear industry was leading to private
companies such as Endecom (set up by
SITA UK) looking to pick up government contracts to get rid of low
level and very low level nuclear waste as stated on their
· The bizarre reason given by Endecom for
it not being possible to site a low level nuclear dump at
Sellafield because “there is
insufficient space on the site to construct a VLLW Disposal
Facility and …large areas of contaminated land on the site
would have to be excavated to develop a VLLW Facility” in
other words Sellafield’s 6 mile
square site was too small and way too contaminated for a low level
· There were concerns surrounding the waste being below the
watertable, as nuclear contamination
makes freshwater invalid
· There had been no in-depth health impact assessment carried out by
· Cumbria County Council were urged to stick to their opposition to
the Keekle Head proposal; to ask for a
Planning Application No. 6/11/9006 Integrated Inert Waste Recycling and Disposal Facility, Goldmire Quarry, Thwaite Flat, Barrow-in-Furness PDF 426 KB Minutes:
RESOLVED, that planning permission
be GRANTED for the reasons stated in Appendix 1 and subject to the
conditions in Appendix 2.
Planning Application No. 6/12/9002 Change of use of part of premises to include a depollution centre for the dismantling of scrap cars, including storage of pollutants, K & M Recycling Ltd, Schneider Road, Barrow-in-Furness, LA14 5ER PDF 448 KB Minutes:
Planning Application No. 6/12/9006 Retrospective application for new storage building, K & M Recycling Ltd, Schneider Road, Barrow-in-Furness, LA14 5ER PDF 362 KB Minutes:
Planning Application No. 6/12/9008 60 bedroom residential care home, with day care centre and associated car parking and landscaping, Former George Basterfield House, Risedale Road, Barrow-In-Furness, LA13 9BZ PDF 641 KB Minutes:
The Planning Officer presented the report and
informed members that an application would be submitted in the next
few weeks for 17 additional car parking spaces. Members were impressed with both the design of the
building and the county council’s commitment to the elderly
in Barrow. Mr Hamilton, the local
member praised Mark Hastings, the Adult Social Care County Manager
Care Provision for conducting a thorough consultation in the
area. He referred to a piece of county
council owned land next to Basterfield
Gardens and bungalows which could be used as a car park for
residents. A member queried the need for Condition 7, if
the proposed parking on the site was adequate according to current
parking standards then surely it was required. Mr Hamilton MOVED the recommendation, this was
SECONDED by Mr Stewart.
The Team Leader - Development Control agreed
that the condition was not needed, as highways comments had just
been received (after the Agenda had been despatched) and there was
no mention of additional parking being required. The Chairman believed that further parking
provision was needed for the site. The
application for which would be brought to a future meeting.
conditions in Appendix 2 with the removal of Condition 7 –
the construction of the additional car parking area proposed at
Greengate Infants School being brought
into use prior to occupation of the building.
Applications/Consultations Determined Under Delegated Powers PDF 14 KB [Electoral Divisions: Various]
Assistant Director – Planning and Sustainability (copy
To note that these are
applications/consultations that have recently been determined by
the Assistant Director – Planning and Sustainability in
accordance with their schemes of delegation.
The list of applications/consultations
determined under delegated powers was noted.
Applications/Consultations Proposed to be Determined Under Delegated Powers PDF 16 KB [Electoral Divisions: Various]
To note that these applications
that have been submitted to the County Council but are not
ready/appropriate for presentation to the Committee of for
determination under delegated powers and/or have been recently
withdrawn or determined as invalid or not requiring planning
permission etc.
proposed to be determined under delegated powers was noted.
A member referred to planning application no.
1/12/9003 – application to vary condition 11 of Planning
Consent 1/97/9025 Bolton Fell Moss and Peat Works, Roweltown, Hethersgill
and asked what the variation was. He
was informed that the variation was because the site was being
Planning application no. 3/12/9004 –
referred to the change of use to storage of scrap metal,
Penrith. A
member asked what the sites current use was. The Planning Officer was unsure but would let the
members know.
Applications to be Considered at Future Meetings PDF 24 KB [Electoral Divisions: Various]
To note the list of outstanding
An update on Planning Application No.
4/11/9007 – Low Level Waste Repository, near Drigg, Holmrook was
given. It was the intention that a site
visit be held in July/August.
A member was dismayed that Planning
Application No. 2/12/9005 – a further three year extension
for a portacabin at Bolton Low House C
of E School, Wigton was to be
considered by the Committee again. As
the last time planning permission was granted it was on the proviso
that they looked at building a new nursery or moving to a more
suitable building.
The Team Leader – Development Control
suggested the following site visits to members:
3/12/9003 - Part field opposite 1-4 Town Head Farm,
Sleagill Head, Sleagill, Penrith, CA10
3HD, Inert Landfill of part field including temporary access and
gates, and passing places
3/12/9005 - Rose Garth, Long Marton,
Nr Appleby, Cumbria, CA16 6BU, Inert infill of subsided land at
02/2012/0311 (Re-submission of
application ref 2/2011/0935), Land off Moor
Road, Stainburn, Workington Residential
development of 150 dwellings including 30 affordable dwellings,
Public Open Space & associated infrastructure
RESOLVED, that a site visit be held on 28 May
2012 to Planning Application No. 3/12/9003 - Part field opposite 1-4 Town Head Farm, Sleagill Head, Sleagill, Penrith, CA10
gates, and passing places; Planning
Application No. 3/12/9005Rose Garth, Long
Marton, Nr Appleby, Cumbria, CA16 6BU,
Inert infill of subsided land at Long Marton; and Planning
Application No. 02/2012/0311 (Re-submission
of application ref 2/2011/0935), Land off
Residential development of 150 dwellings including 30 affordable
dwellings, Public Open Space & associated