Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Council Solicitor.

The report inform the Area Committee of a recent decision by the Planning Inspectorate to award costs against the Council in respect of a planning appeal for 224A Dialstone Lane, Offerton.

The report was deferred at the last meeting to allow for the Corporate Director for Place Management & Regeneration to provide further details of the appeal decision and the discharge of conditions related to the application. The Head of Development Management has met with a Ward Councillor to discuss these issues.

The Area Committee is requested to give consideration to how it will meet the costs.

Officer contact: Jonathan Vali, 0161 474 3201, jonathan.vali@stockport.gov.uk

A representative of the Democratic Services Manager submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) informing the Area Committee of a decision by the Planning Inspectorate to award costs to the appellant for a successful appeal against a decision by the Area Committee to refuse planning permission at 224A Dialstone Lane, Offerton, and inviting the Area Committee to consider how it wished to meet the costs.

The report had been deferred from the last meeting to allow the Corporate Director for Place Management & Regeneration to provide additional information in respect of the appeal and the discharge of the conditions relating to the permission granted by the Planning Inspectorate. A representative of the Democratic Services Manager reported that the Head of Development Management had met with Councillor Alexander to discuss concerns about the matter but that it had been agreed that this need not delay consideration of the payment of the cost.

RESOLVED – That the report and decision of the Planning Inspector be noted and that the Democratic Services Manager be recommended to allocate £4,539 from the Area Flexibility Budget to meet the costs of the Planning Appeal decision for 224A Dialstone Lane.

To consider a report of the Council Solicitor.

The report inform the Area Committee of a recent decision by the Planning Inspectorate to award costs against the Council in respect of a planning appeal for 224A Dialstone Lane, Offerton.

(Note: the report contains information ‘not for publication’ contained in its appendix that has been circulated to members of the Area Committee only).

The Area Committee is requested to give consideration to how it will meet the costs.

Officer contact: Jonathan Vali, 0161 474 3201, jonathan.vali@stockport.gov.uk

A representative of the Democratic Services Manager submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) informing the Area Committee of a decision by the Planning Inspectorate to award costs for a successful appeal against a decision by the Area Committee to refuse planning permission at the 224A Dialstone Lane, Offerton, and inviting the Area Committee to consider how it wished to meet the costs.

(Note: the report contained information ‘not for publication’ contained within one of its appendices that had been circulated to area committee members only.)

RESOLVED – (1) That consideration of the matter be deferred until the next meeting to allow the Corporate Director for Place Management & Regeneration to provide councillors with details of the correspondence sent on behalf of the Council as part of the appeal against the refusal of planning application DC049501.

(2) That the Corporate Director for Place Management & Regeneration be requested to ensure that all the relevant conditions relating to the planning permission granted by the Planning Inspectorate in relation to DC049501 had been discharged.