Part A
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Welcome and Announcements
The Chairman will welcome members of the public and Councillors and remind everyone to use microphones at all times when they are speaking. The Chairman will also explain action in the event of an emergency, mobile phones switched to silent, audio-recording of the meeting. Councillors who are members of the committee will introduce themselves.
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Substitutions
Councillors will be asked to say if they are attending on behalf of a Committee member who is absent.
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Urgent Items
The Chairman will announce if there is any item not on the published agenda which will be considered because it is urgent and will explain the reason for the urgency.
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Declarations of Interest
Councillors will be asked to say if there are any items on the agenda about which they have a disclosable pecuniary interest which would prevent them from participating in any discussion of the item or participating in any vote upon the item, or any other pecuniary interest or non-pecuniary interest.
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Have Your Say!
At meetings of the Planning Committee, members of the public may make representations to the Committee members. These Have Your Say! arrangements will allow for one person to make representations in opposition and one person to make representations in support of each planning application. Each representation may be no longer than three minutes(500 words). Members of the public wishing to address the Committee need to register their wish to address the meeting by e-mailing
democratic.services@colchester.gov.uk by 12.00 noon on the working day before the meeting date.
These speaking arrangements do not apply to councillors who are not members of the Committee who may make representations of no longer than five minutes each
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Minutes of Previous Meeting
The Councillors will be invited to confirm that the minutes of the meeting held on 28 April 2022 and 9 June 2022 are a correct record.
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The Minutes of the meeting held on the 28 April 2022 and 9 June 2022 were confirmed as a true record.
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Planning Applications
When the members of the Committee consider the planning applications listed below, they may decide to agree, all at the same time, the recommendations in the reports for any applications which no member of the Committee or member of the public wishes to address the Committee.
220154 - redevelopment of site to involve the demolition of the existing garages and provision of 2 no. one bedroom units.
220155 - redevelopment of site to involve the demolition of the existing garages and provision of 2 no. one bedroom units.
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The Committee considered an application for (i) redevelopment of site to involve demolition of the existing garages and provision of 2 no. one bedroom units: and (ii) redevelopment of site to involve the demolition of the existing garages and provision of 2 no. one bedroom units. The applications were referred to the Planning Committee as the application was made by Colchester Amphora Homes Limited on behalf of Colchester Borough Council.
The Committee had before it a report and amendment sheet in which all information was set out.
RESOLVED (UNANIMOUSLY) that the applications be approved subject to the conditions and informatives in the report and amendment sheet.
Demolition of existing garages and redevelopment of site to provide 6x2 bedroom flats.
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The Committee considered an application for the demolition of existing garages and redevelopment of site to provide 6x2 bedroom flats. The application was referred to the Planning Committee as the application was made by Colchester Amphora Homes Limited on behalf of Colchester Borough Council.
The Committee had before it a report and amendment sheet in which all information was set out.
RESOLVED (UNANIMOUSLY) that the applications be approved subject to the conditions and informatives in the report and amendment sheet.
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Exclusion of the Public (not Scrutiny or Executive)
In accordance with Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972 to exclude the public, including the press, from the meeting so that any items containing exempt information (for example confidential personal, financial or legal advice), in Part B of this agenda (printed on yellow paper) can be decided. (Exempt information is defined in Section 100I and Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972).