Issue - meetings

To consider application UTT/19/1219/FUL.

The Development Manager said that this planning application had been reported to Planning Committee on 20 May 2020 and that on the advice from officers, members, whilst resolving to approve planning permission, requested that the suggested conditions and heads of terms of any S106 Obligation be brought back to the Committee for consideration. He said that officers had been working with the applicant’s agent and Great Dunmow Town Council with regards the Conditions and Heads of Terms.

The Development Manager highlighted that the Secretary of State had been approached to call the matter in for his determination and his offices had requested that no decision notice would be issued until the Secretary of State had confirmed that a decision could be released. He indicated that this was not the usual process and that this had been as a result of an approach from a third party.

The application was recommended for approval with Conditions subject to S106 Legal Obligation.

Members raised concerns about the possible intervention by the Secretary of State, the urgent need for the depot to relocate and that it was essential that dialogue continued with the Town Council in respect of the future of the footbridge and the pathway.

Councillor LeCount proposed approval of the application.

Councillor Fairhurst seconded the motion.

RESOLVED to approve the application with Conditions subject to S106 Legal Obligation.

Councillor P Lavelle (on behalf of Great Dunmow Town Council) spoke on the application.