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Agenda
Part A
1.
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.
2.
Substitutions
Councillors will be asked to say if they are attending on behalf of a Committee member who is absent.
3.
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.
4.
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.
Councillor Warnes was not present for the items at minutes 1141-43
5.
Minutes of Previous Meetings
The Councillors will be invited to confirm that the minutes of the meetings held on 24 July, 14 August and 4 September 2025 are a correct record.
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The minutes of the meetings held on 24 July, 14 August and 4 September 2025 were confirmed as a true record.
6.
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
7.
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.
Installation of 1 x Quad-Head Camera to external wall of the building.
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Item 7.1 Councillor Warnes declared an “other disclosable interest” in item 7.1, as the Chair of Colchester Commercial (Holdings) Limited, pursuant to the provisions of Meetings General Procedure Rule 7(5) and left the meeting during its consideration and determination.
The Committee considered an application for installation of 1 x Quad-Head Camera to external wall of the Victoria Inn, which is a listed building located in Conservation Area 4 – North Station Road.
The application was referred to the Planning Committee because the applicant was Colchester Amphora Trading.
The Committee had before it a report in which all information was set out together with further information in the Amendment Sheet.
RESOLVED (UNANIMOUSLY): that the application be approved subject to the conditions and informatives in the report.
This project constitutes 2 Phases of the Fieldgate Quay works. Phase1 (L/2024/00318/1) involved remedying the failed sheet piling around the Anglian Water sewage outfall, by removing the failed piling and reinstating like for like piling with addition of ACBM scour protection, this phase has already been completed. Phase 2 will involve replacing the remaining wider quayside sheet piling along the quay with a naturalised embankment.
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Item 7.2 The Committee considered an application for the second phase of a project which constituted two phases of the Fieldgate Quay works. Phase1 (L/2024/00318/1) that involved remedying the failed sheet piling around the Anglian Water sewage outfall had already been completed. Phase 2 which was under consideration would involve replacing the remaining wider quayside sheet piling along the quay with a naturalised embankment.
The application was referred to the Planning Committee because the applicant was Colchester City Council.
The Committee had before it a report in which all information was set out, together with further information in the Amendment Sheet.
RESOLVED (UNANIMOUSLY): that the application be approved subject to the conditions and informatives in the report and Amendment Sheet.
Replacement of temporary windows by traditionally detailed, painted timber windows and door to front and rear elevations.
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Item 7.3 The Committee considered an application for listed building consent for replacement of temporary windows by traditionally detailed, painted timber windows and door to front and rear elevations of a Grade II listed building located within the designated Wivenhoe conservation area and at a close distance to a number of other listed buildings.
The application was referred to the Committee because the applicant was a Colchester City Councillor.
The Committee had before it a report in which all information was set out.
RESOLVED (UNANIMOUSLY): that the application be approved subject to the conditions and informatives in the report.
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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).
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