Planning Minutes 18th November 2015

BACKWELL PARISH COUNCIL

MINUTES OF THE PLANNING COMMITTEE MEETING HELD ON WEDNESDAY 18TH NOVEMBER 2015 IN BACKWELL PARISH HALL, BACKWELL, AT 1900 HOURS

Present: Cllrs M Gibbons-Price (Chairman), M Bowerman, S Edwards, J Sear, G Simmonite and R Taylor

In attendance: Mrs J Stone, Clerk of the Council

Members of Public: None

1. Apologies

111 Cllrs R MacLeavy and S Mitchell

2. Declarations of Interest

Prejudicial Interests

112 None

Personal Interests

113 None

Disclosable Pecuniary Interests

114 None

To consider Dispensations

115 None

3. Public Participation

116 None

4. Minutes

117 The minutes of the Planning Committee Meeting held on 15.10.15 were confirmed as a correct record by those present at that meeting

5. To receive and consider email from NSC dated 6.11.15 re North Somerset

Core Strategy Consultation on consequential changes to remitted policies

CS6, CS14, CS19, CS28, CS30, CS31, CS32 and CS33

(deadline for response Friday 18^th December 2015)

118 Resolved: Unanimously the Planning Committee to respond on behalf of the

Parish Council

6. To receive and consider email from West of England Joint Planning dated

9.11.15 re consultation on Joint Spatial Plan: Issues and Options

(deadline for response Friday 29^th January 2016)

119 Resolved: Unanimously to defer to the 3^rd December Full Council meeting

7. To receive and consider email from West of England Joint Planning dated

9.11.15 re consultation on West of England Joint Transport Study

(deadline for response Friday 29^th January 2016)

120 Resolved: Unanimously to defer to the 3^rd December Full Council meeting

8. To consider the following Planning Applications:

a. Planning application no. 15/P/2449/WT 2 Church Town, Backwell –

T1 – Ash – end weight/reduce lower limb to allow 3.5m clearance

from garden; T2 – Beech – crown lift by up to 4m; T3 – Holm

oak – crown lift up to 3m – Smart Trees

121 Resolved: Unanimously no objection

b. Planning application no. 15/P/2456/WT 84 Manor Farm, West Town

Road, Backwell – T1 – Horse Chestnut – fell; T2 – Beech – to

be reshaped and reduced by up to 8m – Mrs J Axam

122 Resolved: Unanimously no objection

c. Planning application no. 15/P/2492/WT Land at Uncombe Close,

Backwell – T21 & T9 – Ash – fell – Mr Justin Milward

123 Resolved: Unanimously no objection

124 There being no further business the Chairman thanked everybody for attending and closed the meeting at 1905 hours