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 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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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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Minutes of Previous Meeting
The Councillors will be invited to confirm that the minutes of the meeting held on 6 November 2025 are a correct record.
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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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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.
Outline planning permission (all matters reserved, except for access) for up to 150 dwellings (including affordable housing), a car park, public open space, landscaping, children's play area, sustainable drainage, infrastructure and all other associated infrastructure.
City Council development for public realm improvements including hard and soft landscaping; additional tree planting; creation of a new public square; erection of play area; enhanced pedestrian connectivity through formalised routes, stepped and ramped access; reconfigured car parking layout; installation of street lighting, street furniture and associated infrastructure works.
Repair and refurbishment of existing former church building previously used as commercial space and storage, to form new Community Hub with Historic Interpretation experience, including installation of art sculptures to railings (x8), and wall artwork plus drainage works (Revised Description).
Repair and refurbishment of existing former church building previously used as commercial space and storage, to form new Community Hub with Historic Interpretation experience, including installation of art sculptures to railings (x8), and wall artwork plus drainage works (Revised Description).
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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).