PTC 2022 Minutes

 

Present: Councillors Gilbert, Hosking, Shinkins-Hoppe, Stevens (District) and Thomas (District). 

 

The Minutes were taken by the Assistant Clerk Louise Brown.

 

Apologies were received from Cllrs Bowell, Denman, Halls, Little and Robinson.

Cllrs Dilks did not attend.

 

None were received.

 

Spelling errors were corrected and the website link was amended.  Cllr Shinkins-Hoppe agreed and signed the minutes.

 

The office are awaiting information to put forward to the LRSP from Cllr Dilks, regarding which lamp posts could be used along Linchfield Road to hold a SIDS device and can be included in the SIDS rota. The Planning Committee have agreed for the assistant clerk to continue to look into this and send forward suggestions of lamp posts to the LRSP.

 

The assistant clerk approached PC Everitt and Countryside Access re signage for Bell Lane, where it has been established that the land is not publicly maintainable.  Signage could be placed relating to the Police Reform Act, making it an offence to motorcycle on the land if they don’t have the landowner’s permission as it is private.  Furthermore, it is also an offence under the same act to ride a motor vehicle causing alarm, distress or annoyance.  Signs could be put in place on the private land to say no trespassing, no motor vehicles etc.  It would be down to the landowners and the Police to enforce it.  If any signage is used and kept to the size of a highway sign then planning may not have to be consulted.  Countryside Access have provided contact details of places where we can get some signs made.

 

The Assistant Clerk was requested to contact SKDC Planning Department – Deeping St James Parish Council as the neighbouring authority, should be able to comment on the New River Retail application and our comments were forwarded.  Comments were also forwarded by the NPT and Market Deeping, to address stipulations that have not been adhered to as agreed at a previous meeting with New River Retail.

 

The Neighbourhood Plan Team had a meeting on the 29th November with the Assistant Director of Planning SKDC, The Principle Planning Officer from SKDC and another representative from the Planning Department at SKDC.  The minutes of this meeting have been written and sent to SKDC to approve, they will be made available once agreed by the NPT and the Planning Department.

 

This point was raised in the meeting of the 29th November with the Assistant Director of Planning SKDC, who confirmed that there are not enough enforcement officers and that local councils should act and can write to developers addressing any conditions that have been set, but not met.  Should any correspondence be sent to a developer; it is appropriate to copy the Principle Planning Officer in to the communication.  Changes are being made to the Planning Department and local councils will be updated once the announcements have been made.  The Parish Council need to design a system to monitor and follow up the implementation of these conditions, whether by diarising them and delegating monthly checks to specific Councillors and then to disseminate with the developer.

The Councillors discussed being able to add their ideas of potential conditions at Planning Consultation stage, to put forward to SKDC as local Councillors have knowledge of the needs of the community and the street scene.  This allows a lot of scope to accommodate conditions to the plan if needed, especially if there is no valid reason to object to a planning application.

 

S106 was discussed and it was considered that Parish Councillors need to put ideas forward, regarding wants and needs for the development.  If there is a big development, ideas for S106 monies need to be put forward in advance, not retrospectively.

 

This topic was discussed in the Clerk’s report.  Councillors agreed to go ahead and order signage as previously agreed.

 

The traffic calming information has been collected and passed to Cllr Dilks for his meeting with the LCC Local Highways Manager.  A meeting has not yet been able to take place to ask what LCC thinks of the idea and what the way forward is.

 

 

S22/2243

Outline application for the erection of up to 6 dwellings and associated access, including new access point for No 36, 36A and 38 Spalding Road, following demolition of existing agricultural building (Access for approval only all other matters reserved).

38 Spalding Road, Deeping St James, Lincolnshire, PE6 8NJ.

 

Councillors discussed this application, no objections were raised, however, the Parish Council would like to ask that the green swathe in front of the houses be kept and either the old hedgerow extended (with the removal of the elders) or replaced and extended with Copper Beech or Hornbeams, to mitigate the impact on the street scene.

 

S22/2106

Demolition of existing store building and erection of detached dwelling.

103 Horsegate, Deeping St James, Lincs, PE6 8EW.

 

Councillors objected to this planning application on the basis of overdevelopment of the site, effects of vehicle movement over a pavement near a school and not in keeping with the street scene.

 

 

S22/2161

Confirmation of compliance with conditions of planning permission S16/1137 (works to building to include re-roofing rear extension, re-instating window opening replacement and internal works to include loft conversion).

42 Church Street, Deeping St James.

SKDC – Non-compliance with conditions

 

Tuesday 10th January 2023 at 7pm.

 

Meeting closed at 7:40pm.