Agenda item

(1)       Mr J A Davies informed the Committee that he had received correspondence from Julian Brazier, MP and from Sir Roger Gale, MP in respect of the application.  He was acquainted with Julian Brazier, MP but this was not a close personal association. He was therefore to approach the determination of the application with a fresh mind.

(2)       Mr C Hibberd informed the Committee that he was acquainted with Sir Roger Gale, MP.  This was not a close personal association and he had not discussed the application with him. He was therefore able to approach the determination of the application with a fresh mind.

(3)       Mr R A Marsh was present for this item pursuant to Committee Procedure Rule 2.27 and spoke.

(4)       Mr Huw Edwards from Barton Willmore addressed the Committee (with the agreement of the Chairman) as a representative of all the businesses on the estate. Mr George Wilson and Mrs Georgina Glover (Westbere PC) also addressed the Committee in opposition to the application.  Mr Mike Goddard (Goddard Planning Consultancy) spoke in reply on behalf of the applicants

(5)       The Chairman informed the Committee that both Julian Brazier, MP and Sir Roger Gale, MP had written to him in his capacity as Chairman of the Committee and had asked him bring the views they had expressed to the Committee’s attention. The Chairman then read their letters to the meeting. 

(6)       The Head of Planning Applications Group reported additional correspondence dated 6 April 2013 from residents of Upstreet opposing the application. She advised that the correspondence did not raise any additional issues to those raised in the report.

(6)       Mr W A Hayton moved, seconded by Mr C P Smith that the recommendations of the Head of Planning Applications Group be agreed.

                                                            Carried 9 votes to 8.

(7)       RESOLVED that:-

(a)       permission be granted to the application subject to conditions including conditions covering the existing conditions on the 2010 permission (or details approved pursuant thereto) being carried forward as appropriate (except where amended by those below); waste types and quantities; the installation and use of an odour suppression system; the closure of the automatic fast action fabric inner doors of the waste transfer building at all times except to allow vehicles to enter and leave the building (or for emergency maintenance when such repairs cannot be undertaken when the building contains no waste); waste being stored within the waste transfer building for no more than 48 hours and, wherever possible, not after 12:00 hours on Saturdays or at any time on Sundays; hours of use; noise from the entire development being limited to 52dB L_Ar,T(free field) when measured at any residential property; the implementation of measures to control vermin and pests (e.g. flies); no more than 324 HGV movements (162 in / 162 out) per day associated with all waste management operations at the site; the proposed foul water arrangements being implemented as proposed; and the requirement for a further landscaping scheme to be submitted, approved and implemented in the event that Canterbury City Council is unable to secure any necessary re-planting and consolidated planting in accordance with the planning permission it granted for the larger site; and

(b)       the Applicants be advised by Informative that in accordance with Government policy and associated guidance, detailed controls in respect of odour vermin/ pests will be matters for the Environment Agency under the terms of the Environmental Permit.