Issue - meetings

To consider application UTT/21/2799/DFO.

The Senior Planning Officer presented an application with details following outline approval UTT/17/3573/OP (approved under appeal reference APP/C1570/W/19/3243744) for access road infrastructure to serve up to 350 new homes and associated uses – details of appearance, landscaping, layout and scale.

The application was recommended for approval subject to conditions.

Members discussed:

·         The need to continue to keep the footpath open for public right of way and whether this needed to be conditioned.

·         Construction Management Plan to ensure construction vehicles on site, not the highway.

·         Speed limits.

·         Bus stops.

The officer from Essex CC Highways confirmed that under the Highways Act 1980 the public right of way would continue.

Councillor Reeve proposed that the application be approved with an additional condition that the footpath public right of way remains open. This was seconded by Councillor Bagnall.

RESOLVED to approve the application with an additional condition as stated above.

Councillor G Mott (Chair of Elsenham PC) spoke about the need for the public right of way to remain.

A Clark (Applicant) spoke in support of the application.