Agenda and minutes

To approve as a correct record and sign the Minutes of the meeting held on 27 March 2013.

The Minutes (copies of which had been circulated) of the meeting held on 27 March 2013 were approved as a correct record and signed by the Chair.

Councillors and officers to declare any interests which they have in any of the items on the agenda for the meeting.

No declarations of interest were made.

To report any urgent action taken under the Constitution since the last meeting of the Committee.

No urgent decisions were reported.

Members of the public are invited to put questions to the Chair of the Town Centre Committee on any matters within the powers and duties of the Town Centre Committee, subject to the exclusions set out in the Code of Practice (Questions must be submitted prior to the commencement of the meeting on the cards provided. These are available the meeting and at local libraries and information centres.  You can also submit via the Council’s website at www.stockport.gov.uk/publicquestions.

No public questions were submitted.

To consider a report of the Corporate Director for Place Management and Regeneration

(a)  To consider development applications where members of the public have attended the meeting in order to hear the committee’s deliberations.

(b)  To consider the remaining development applications.

Officer contact: Emma Curle on 0161 474 3542 or e mail: emma.curle@stockport.gov.uk

The following development applications will be considered by the Committee:-

(i)            DC052194 – Plot 4, Hopes Carr, Stockport

Application to extend the time limit for implementation for an extant permission (DC043578): Plot 4 residential development comprising twenty two dwellings (use class C3) and associated car parking granted 31 March 2010.

(ii)          DC052195 – Plot 3, Hopes Carr, Stockport

Application to extend the time limit for implementation for an extant permission (DC043700): Plot 3 residential development comprising four properties (use class C3) and associated car parking granted 31 March 2010.

(iii)         DC052198 – Plot 5, Land at Hopes Carr, Stockport

Application to extend the time limit for implementation for an extant permission (DC043579): Plot 5 residential development comprising eight new dwellings and conversion of a listed building into four apartments (use class C3) and associated car parking granted 31 March 2010.

(iv)         DC052199 - Land at Hopes Carr, Stockport (Plot 2, Hopes Carr/Lavenders Brow and Churchgate)

Application to extend the time limit for implementation for an extant permission (DC043701): Plot 2 residential development comprising three properties (use class C3) and associated car parking granted 31 March 2010.

(v)          DC052225 - Plot 5, Land at Hopes Carr, Stockport

Application to extend the time limit for implementation for an extant listed building consent (DC043606): Plot 5 residential development comprising eight new dwellings and conversion of a listed building into four apartments (use class C3) and associated car parking granted 31 March 2010.

The Committee is recommended to grant planning permission for each of the applications detailed above.

Development applications were submitted.

(NOTE: Full details of the decisions including conditions and reasons for granting or refusing planning permission and imposing conditions are given in the schedule of plans. The Corporate Director for Place Management and Regeneration is authorised to determine conditions and reasons and they are not therefore referred to in committee minutes unless the committee makes a specific decision on a condition or reason. In order to reduce printing costs and preserve natural resources, the schedule of plans is not reproduced within these minutes. A copy of the schedule of plans is available on the council’s website at www.stockport.gov.uk/planningdecisions. Copies of the schedule of plans, or any part thereof, may be obtained from the Services to Place Directorate upon payment of the Council’s reasonable charges).

Development Applications – Land at Hopes Carr, Stockport

In respect of the following development applications:-

(i)            DC052194 – Plot 4, Hopes Carr, Stockport

Application to extend the time limit for implementation for an extant permission (DC043578): Plot 4 residential development comprising twenty two dwellings (use class C3) and associated car parking granted 31 March 2010;

(ii)          DC052195 – Plot 3, Hopes Carr, Stockport

Application to extend the time limit for implementation for an extant permission (DC043700): Plot 3 residential development comprising four properties (use class C3) and associated car parking granted 31 March 2010;

(iii)         DC052198 – Plot 5, Land at Hopes Carr, Stockport

Application to extend the time limit for implementation for an extant permission (DC043579): Plot 5 residential development comprising eight new dwellings and conversion of a listed building into four apartments (use class C3) and associated car parking granted 31 March 2010;

(iv)         DC052199 - Land at Hopes Carr, Stockport (Plot 2, Hopes Carr/Lavenders Brow and Churchgate)

Application to extend the time limit for implementation for an extant permission (DC043701): Plot 2 residential development comprising three properties (use class C3) and associated car parking granted 31 March 2010; and

(v)          DC052225 - Plot 5, Land at Hopes Carr, Stockport

Application to extend the time limit for implementation for an extant listed building consent (DC043606): Plot 5 residential development comprising eight new dwellings and conversion of a listed building into four apartments (use class C3) and associated car parking granted 31 March 2010;

a representative of a local business spoke against plan no. 52195 – Plot 3, Hopes Carr, Stockport.

It was then

RESOLVED – (1) That the Corporate Director for Place Management and Regeneration be authorised to determine the applications, subject to a new time limit and pending completion of a Deed of Variation to the Unilateral Undertaking under a Section 106 Agreement to allow for the provision and maintenance of recereation and amenity open space and highway contributions in respect of improvements to the Waterloo Road/Spring Gardens/Churchgate junction, new Traffic Regulation Orders and a full Travel Plan.

(2) That an informative be issued to the developer with regard to resolving the land ownership and access issues.