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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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 registerable interest or non-registerable interest.
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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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Have Your Say(Hybrid Planning Meetings)
At meetings of the Planning Committee, members of the public may make representations to the Committee members. This can be made either in person at the meeting or by joining the meeting remotely and addressing the Council via Zoom. 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 either in person or remotely 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. In addition for those who wish to address the committee online we advise that a written copy of the representation be supplied for use in the event of unforeseen technical difficulties preventing participation at the meeting itself.
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 the 7 March 2024 and 28 March 2024 are a correct record.
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The minutes of the meeting held on the 7 March 2024 and 28 March 2024 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.
Application for hoarding at the front of building site boundary. Already installed with a illustrative graphic which we wish to update to promote the Levelling Up project which is being built.
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The Committee considered an application for Hoarding at the front of building site boundary. Already installed with an illustrative graphic which we wish to update to promote the Levelling Up project which is being built. The application was referred to the Planning Committee as the applicant was Colchester City Council.
The Committee had before it a report in which all information was set out.
RESOLVED (UNANIMOUSLY) That the application was approved as detailed in the officer recommendation.
The application before the Committee is a proposed building which is intended to replace the existing container and is considered to be more appropriate within the Conservation Area. It will utilise traditional materials - black weatherboarding and pantiles. The proposed development is located to the rear of Hythe House and has minimal view from Hythe Hill. There is currently a 1.42m high brick wall to the boundary with Connaught Close. To the rear of the site is a wall with fencing and trellis above measuring 2.4m in height in total. The property adjacent to the rear boundary does not have any windows in the side elevation.
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The Committee considered an application for a proposed building to replace the existing container and is considered to be more appropriate within the Conservation Area. It will utilise traditional materials – black weatherboarding and pantiles. The proposed development is located to the rear of Hythe House and has minimal view from Hythe Hill. There is currently a 1.42m high brick wall to the boundary with Connaught Close. To the rear of the site is a wall with fencing and trellis above measuring 2.4m in height in total. The property adjacent to the rear boundary does not have any windows in the side elevation. The application was referred to the Planning Committee as the Applicant is known to a Colchester City Council employee.
The Committee had before it a report and amendment sheet in which all information was set out.
The Joint Head of Planning (Simon Cairns) detailed that there was an update to the recommendation as follows:
That the application be approved as detailed in the officer recommendation and amendment sheet, approve subject to receipt of no further representations raising materially new issues within outstanding consultation period (ends 25.04.2024) delegated to Simon Cairns, Joint Head of Planning. Matter to be reported back if new matters are raised.
RESOLVED (UNANIMOUSLY) That the application is approved as detailed in the officer recommendation and amendment sheet, approve subject to receipt of no further representations raising materially new issues within outstanding consultation period (ends 25.04.2024) delegated to Simon Cairns, Joint Head of Planning. Matter to be reported back if new matters are raised.
Application for the relocation of the approved granite plinth to describe the Twinkle Star statue.
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The Committee considered an application for the relocation of the approved granite plinth to describe the Twinkle Star statue. The application was referred to the Planning Committee as the applicant was an Alderman of the City of Colchester.
The Committee had before it a report in which all information was set out.
RESOLVED (UNANIMOUSLY) That the application was approved as detailed in the officer recommendation.
Following the conclusion of the formal business of the meeting the Chair and Members of the Committee thanked Cllrs Hogg and Barton for their service to the Council as they would not be seeking re-election.
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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).