Issue - meetings

The Board considered a report of the Chief Executive, a copy of which, marked ‘agenda item 7’, is filed with these minutes.

In response to a question from a member, the Director of Law and Governance clarified that the existing legal agreement which precluded any applications for mineral extraction, bound the land on which the application was sited and the current landowner was subject to the terms of the agreement. This provision had been included at the request of Cotesbach Parish Council. However, circumstances and minerals policies changed over time and it was now appropriate for the legal agreement to be updated so that mineral extraction could be permitted. Cotesbach Parish Council had been consulted on the planning application.

RESOLVED:

(a)        That the application be permitted subject to the conditions nos. 1-31 as set out in the Appendix to the report and the prior completion of a legal agreement to modify the previously imposed obligations affecting the area provided that a report setting out the results of archaeological trial trenching has first been submitted for approval by the Minerals Planning Authority;

(b)        That the imposition of planning condition(s) relating to the requirement for control over archaeological matters be delegated to the Chief Executive;

(c)        That the Board confirms (as required by the Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) that in dealing with the application the County Council worked in a positive and proactive manner, taking account of paragraph 38 of the National Planning Policy Framework.