Agenda and minutes

*DM&L 06      

Apologies for absence were received from Cllr A Roberts for whom Cllr B Lamb substituted.

Members are invited to declare any personal or disclosable pecuniary interests, including the nature and extent of such interests they may have in any items to be considered at this meeting.

[If Councillors have any questions relating to predetermination, bias or interests in items on this Agenda, then please contact the Monitoring Officer in advance of the meeting]    

*DM&L 07      

Members were invited to declare any interests in the items of business to be considered and the following were made:

Cllr R E Baldwin declared a Personal Interest in application 0978/18/OPA:  Outline application with all matters reserved for 1 no. live work unit – Land west of Cannon Barn Cottages, Lewdown, by virtue of knowing the applicant when he was his local Ward Member, and he remained in the meeting for the duration of this item and took part in the debate and vote on this application;

Cllr C Mott declared a Personal Interest in application 0978/18/OPA:  Outline application with all matters reserved for 1 no. live work unit – Land west of Cannon Barn Cottages, Lewdown, by virtue of knowing the applicant and being his local Ward Member, and she remained in the meeting for the duration of this item and took part in the debate and vote on this application;

Cllr T G Pearce declared a personal interest in all applications by virtue of being a Member of the Devon Building Control Partnership.  He remained in the meeting and took part in the debate and vote on the item.

Meeting held on 19 June 2018

*DM&L 08      

The Minutes of the Development Management and Licensing Committee Meeting held on 19 June 2018 were confirmed and signed by the Chairman as a correct record.

To see Letters of Representation and further supplementary information relating to any of the planning applications on the agenda, please select the following link and enter the relevant Reference number: http://westdevon.gov.uk/searchlanding

0978/18/OPA     Land west of Cannon Barn Cottages, Lewdown, EX20              

                           4BT. Outline application (all matters reserved) for 1no.

                           Live/work unit

*DM&L 09      

The Committee considered the applications prepared by the Development Management Specialists and considered also the comments of Town and Parish Councils together with other representations received, which were listed within the presented agenda reports and summarised below, and RESOLVED:

(a)Application No:  0978/18/OPA         Ward:         Bridestowe

Site Address: Land west of Cannon Barn Cottages, Lewdown

Outline application (all matters reserved) for 1no. live/work unit

Case Officer Update:      None

Speakers included:         Objector:  Mrs Audrey Murphy: Supporter – Mrs Gill Makin: Parish Council representative – Cllr Dunn; local Ward Members – Cllrs Mott and Hockridge

RECOMMENDATION:              Refusal

COMMITTEE DECISION:        Refusal

*DM&L 10      

The Committee received and noted the updated list of Planning Appeals including Enforcement Appeals.

DM&L 11       

The Committee were presented with a report that sought approval to amend the Development Management Public Participation Scheme in light of General Data Protection Regulations.

During discussion, one Member stated that restricting all speakers other than Ward Members was not right, and it was PROPOSED, SECONDED and on being put to the vote declared LOST that Ward Members also be restricted to speaking for three minutes.  Whilst Members did not agree with a restriction of three minutes, they did agree that a restriction in line with the existing Council Procedure Rules to speak for five minutes would be appropriate.  It was then PROPOSED, SECONDED and on being put to the vote declared CARRIED, that the public participation scheme be further amended so that Ward Members are limited to speaking for a maximum of five minutes.  It was made clear that this would not restrict Ward Members sitting on the Development Management and Licensing Committee from being able to take further part in the debate on an application.

One Member asked that the public participation scheme be amended to include notification that the meeting may be recorded.  Another Member asked that the scheme be amended to clearly show that questions of clarity could be asked of each speaker.

It was then:

RESOLVED that Council be RECOMMENDED:

1.      That the proposed amendments to the Development Management Public Participation Scheme be approved, as set out in Appendix 1; and

2.      The Public Participation Scheme be further amended so that Ward Members are limited to speaking for a maximum of five minutes