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 Chair 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 7 November 2024 are a correct 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 Change of use of land to B8 Storage, retention of portable cabin for ancillary office, retention of earth bunds, proposed buildings for storage.
Application for the provision of public open space and allotments in connection with the adjacent residential development.
Outline application for erection of 2 two storey dwelling houses, one single storey bungalow and the conversion of a residential care home to a dwelling house including the demolition of part thereof.
Application proposed for change of use of former out building to barber use only within Class E.
Application for respite care facility to support up to two young people aged 12 to 18 to allow primary carers a break (Description Change).
Application for new front wall and path.
Application for Change of use of retail plus dry cleaner (E use class) into restaurant (E use Class) and take-away (Sui Generis) including installation of extraction flue system to rear.
The Committee are asked to approve an additional reason for refusal for planning application 231297 Abro Development Site, Flagstaff Road.
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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).