Planning and Environment

Venue : Committee Room

Agenda

Dear Councillor                                                                                     25 April 2013

 

You are invited to attend a meeting of the PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE to be held on TUESDAY 30 APRIL 2013 at 6.30 pm in the Committee Room at the Town Hall, West Borough, WIMBORNE MINSTER.

 

Members of the public are advised that they may speak at the meeting, at the discretion of the Chairman, if notification is given to the Clerk prior to the meeting.

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

 

Town Clerk

 

 

A G E N D A

 

 

1            Apologies for absence.

 

2            CORE STRATEGY -APPROACH BY COLEHILL PARISH COUNCIL

            To consider a letter dated 2 April 2013 from the Clerk to Colehill Parish Council (copy herewith).

 

3            STONE LANE AREA - PEDESTRIAN CROSSING

            To discuss the matter raised at Town Council on 26 March 2013 under Minute 236.

 

4            TOWN CENTRE - CAR PARKING REVIEW

            To receive the paper produced by Chris Slocock (copy herewith)

 

5            TRAFFIC REGULATION ORDERS - NEW SYSTEM

            To note a letter dated 12 March 2013 from Dorset County Council's Cabinet Member for Highways and Transportation (copy herewith)

           

6                        PLANNING DECISIONS

To receive a schedule of recent planning decisions by East Dorset District Council (copy herewith).

 

 

 

 

 

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7            PLANNING APPLICATIONS

a)     to consider any current planning applications referred to       Committee by the Chairman;

b)              to receive schedules of comments on planning applications made             by Members from 4 March to 15 April 2013 (copies herewith).

 

 

 

 

 

 

MEMBERS OF COMMITTEE

Cllr D G L Packer (Chairman)

Cllr P H Bartlett (Vice-Chairman)

Cllr S K Bartlett                                                                                   

Cllr R D Cook                                     Cllr Mrs D J March

Cllr Mrs S A Cook                                    Cllr Mrs A E Roberts

 

Ex-Officio – Chairman & Vice-Chairman of the Council

 

(Members are reminded of the importance of letting the office know of non-attendance by noon on the day of the meeting)

 

 

 

LOCALISM ACT 2011 and CODE of CONDUCT

Members are reminded to comply with those elements of the Localism Act and the Town Council's Code of Conduct in respect of disclosable pecuniary interests.

 

 

GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS

Members are reminded that the Council has a general duty to consider the following matters in the exercise of any of its functions: Equal Opportunities (race, gender, sexual orientation, marital status and any disability), Crime & Disorder, Health & Safety and Human Rights.

Minutes

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WIMBORNE MINSTER TOWN COUNCIL

 

MINUTES            of a meeting of the PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE held on TUESDAY 30 APRIL 2013 at 6.30 pm in the Committee Room, Town Hall, Wimborne Minster.

 

COMMITTEE MEMBERS PRESENT

 

Cllr D G L Packer (Chairman)

                        Cllr P H Bartlett (Vice-Chairman)

                        Cllr S K Bartlett

                        Cllr R D Cook

Cllr Mrs S A Cook

Cllr Mrs D J March

Cllr Mrs A E Roberts

Cllr J Burden – Ex-Officio – Chairman of the Council

Cllr A J Hampton – Ex-Officio – Vice-Chairman of the Council

 

MEMBER ALSO PRESENT

                       

                        Cllr A W Spencer                       

 

                                   

250                        CORE STRATEGY - APPROACH BY COLEHILL PARISH                                     COUNCIL

 

                        The Town Clerk submitted a letter dated 2 April 2013 from the Clerk to                         Colehill Parish Council, a copy of which had been circulated to each                         Member and a copy of which             appears as Appendix A to these Minutes                         in the Minute Book.

 

                        Colehill Parish Council was asking the Town Council to make a                                     contribution of £2,000 towards the work of an informal Working Party                         which it had set up to present to the Examination in Public (EIP) a                                     viable alternative to the development proposed in WMC5.

 

                        The Town Clerk added that if the Town Council wished to join Colehill                         Parish Council in making representations to the EIP it had the power to                         do so and to the payment of expenses relating thereto.  However, he                         advised that the joint Working Party be set up formally in order to                                     provide proper scrutiny as to how the Town Council's contribution                                     would be spent.

                       

                        RECOMMENDED

 

                        (a)            that in accordance with Section 222 of the Local                                                             Government Act 1972, £2,000 be allocated from the General                                    

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                                    Fund to meet the Council's contribution to present a viable                                     alternative to WMC5 at the EIP;

 

                        (b)            that Colehill Parish Council be requested to formalise the                                     joint Working Party referred to in (a) above and Cllrs Mrs                                     Roberts, Spencer and Wheeler represent the Town Council                                     on it;

 

                        (c)            that before action is taken on (a) and (b) above Cllrs S K                                     Bartlett, R D Cook and Hampton negotiate with Colehill                                     Parish Council in order to garner its support for a boundary                                     change to extend the boundary of Wimborne Minster Parish                                     to incorporate any new development in Colehill Parish                                                 approved as part of the Core Strategy which would                                                 immediately adjoin the present town boundary before the                                     building development so approved is completed;

 

                        (d)            that the Town Clerk be authorised to release the sum                                                 mentioned in (a) above subject to him, in consultation with                                     the Chairman, being satisfied that the negotiations referred                                     to in (c) above have been resolved satisfactorily.

 

251                        STONE LANE AREA - PEDESTRIAN CROSSING

                        (Min 236 - 26.03.13)

 

                        The Town Clerk referred to the issue raised at the Town Council                                     meeting when Cllr R D Cook, as County Councillor, in his report                                     referred to the approval of a 'toucan' type crossing for Stone Lane.

 

                        Members had questioned whether Stone Lane was the correct location                         in this area and whether West Borough north of Stone Lane might not                         be safer.

 

                        Cllr Cook added that a crossing in Stone Lane had been requested for                         many years and that this was only one of two crossings approved in the                         entire county for funding in 2013/2014 when budgets were so restricted.                          It would be sited actually in the Parish of Pamphill. 

 

                        Whilst he accepted that a crossing was needed also in West Borough                         near the Stone Lane junction, it would not be prudent at this stage to                         take any action which might jeopardise the Stone Lane crossing.

 

                        RESOLVED

 

                        (a)            that the County Council be thanked for including the                                                 Stone Lane crossing  in this year's capital programme;

 

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                        (b)            that the County Council be informed that in addition to the                                     approved crossing, the Town Council would welcome                                                 investigations into the need for a pedestrian crossing in West                                     Borough north of the Stone             Lane junction which it feels is                                     needed for pedestrian safety reasons.

 

252            TOWN CENTRE - CAR PARKING REVIEW

 

                        The Committee submitted for information a paper produced by Chris                         Slocock, a copy of which had been circulated to each Member and a                         copy of which appears as Appendix B to these Minutes in the Minute                         Book.

 

                        The paper suggested the areas upon which the District Council, when                         undertaking its District-wide review of car parking, should focus in the                         interests of Wimborne Minster town centre.

           

253                                    TRAFFIC REGULATION ORDERS- NEW SYSTEM

 

                        The Town Clerk submitted for information a letter dated 12 March                                     2013 from Dorset County Council's Cabinet Member for Highways &                         Transportation, a copy of which had been circulated to each Member                         and a copy of which appears as Appendix C to these Minutes in the                         Minute Book.

 

                                    The letter advised the Town Council of the County Council's proposal                         to move to computer map based Traffic Regulation Orders and area                         wide Consolidation Orders.  This work would be carried out during the                         2013/2014 financial year and as a result no new traffic regulation orders                         would be considered until 2014/2015.                                   

 

254                        PLANNING DECISIONS

 

                        The Town Clerk submitted for information a schedule of planning                                     decisions made by East Dorset District Council, a copy of which had                         been circulated to each Member and a copy of which appears as                                     Appendix D to these Minutes in the Minute Book.

 

255                        PLANNING APPLICATIONS

 

                        The Town Clerk submitted for information a schedule of comments on                         planning applications from 4 March to 15 April 2013, a copy of                                     which had been circulated to each Member and a copy of which                                     appears as Appendix E to these Minutes in the Minute Book.

 

 

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                        The meeting closed at 7.20 pm.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Signed …………………………………… Dated ……………………..

                        Town Mayor and Chairman of the Council