Agenda and minutes

 

The Chair welcomed everyone to the meeting and advised that parties to the Review were not permitted to address the Local Review Body.  He advised that the only participants entitled to speak would be the Members of the LRB Panel and Mr Jackson who would provide procedural advice if required.

 

The Chair advised that his first task would be to establish whether or not the LRB felt they had sufficient information before them to reach a decision on the Review.

 

Councillor McNaughton advised that he felt there was not enough information before the Panel today to enable a decision to be reached on the Review and confirmed that he would like written clarification from both the Applicant and Planning on a statement within page 2 of the submission received from the Applicant’s Agent -  “The Planning Officer’s opinion changed from the alteration of the redline boundary being ‘non material’ to ‘material’ ”. 

 

Councillor McNaughton also advised that he would like the Applicant to provide a copy of his correspondence referred to in the Planning Officer’s letter dated 6 January 2011.

 

Councillor Colville advised that he felt the quality of the photographs of the location provided by Planning were poor and that the Panel would benefit from having a site inspection to ascertain the availability of car parking.

 

The Chair confirmed that he agreed with the opinions of both his colleagues and added that he would also like the Applicant to provide written clarification from ACHA on the availability of the two parking spaces and whether or not these would be exclusively available to the Applicant or otherwise.

 

Councillor Colville also advised that he would like written clarification from Planning on their interpretation of Policy LP TRAN 6 in Town Centre locations and other locations.

 

Decision

 

The LRB agreed:-

 

1.             To hold an accompanied site inspection to view the location to ascertain the availability of car parking and that the Applicant/Agent, Planning and all other interested parties be invited to attend;

 

2.             With reference to page 2 of the submission by the Applicant’s Agent, to request from both  the Applicant and Planning written clarification in respect of the following statement “The Planning Officer’s opinion changed from the alteration of the redline boundary being ‘non material’ to ‘material’ ”;

 

3.             To request from the Applicant a copy of their correspondence to the Planning Department as referred to in the Planning Officer’s letter dated 6 January 2011;

 

4.             To request from the Applicant written clarification from ACHA on the availability of the two parking spaces to the Applicant and whether or not these will be available exclusively to the Applicant or otherwise;

 

5.             To request from Planning written clarification on their interpretation of Policy LP TRANS 6 in Town Centre locations and other locations; and

 

6.             To reconvene at the conclusion of the site inspection.

 

The Argyll and Bute Local Review Body re-convened on Monday 27 June 2011 at 11.15 am within the Community Education Centre, Edward Street, Dunoon

 

 

Present:          Councillor Roderick McCuish (Chair)

                        Councillor Rory Colville

                        Councillor Alex McNaughton

 

Attending:        Iain Jackson, Governance and Law (Adviser)

                        Eilidh Fitzpatrick, Committee Services (Minute Taker)

 

 

The Chair welcomed everyone to the reconvened meeting of the ABLRB and advised that parties to the Review were not permitted to address the Local Review Body.  He advised that the only participants entitled to speak would be the Members of the LRB Panel and Mr Jackson who would provide procedural advice if required.

 

Mr Jackson advised the Board that additional information had been submitted by the Applicant but the Planning Department had not been able to comment on it yet and asked if the Board wished to take this information into account.  The Board agreed not to take this into account.

 

Having undertaken an accompanied site inspection prior to this meeting (see Appendix A of this Minute) the Chair advised that his first task would be to establish whether or not the LRB felt they had sufficient information before them to reach a decision on the Review.  The Board agreed unanimously that they had enough information to make a decision on the Notice of Review request and agreed to proceed to determine the case

 

Councillor Colville said it had been helpful to see the site especially the building.  He spoke on Policy LP TRAN 6 advising that appendix C states “that a degree of flexibility will be available where it can be shown by the applicant that the parking requirement can be met by existing car parks and that the demand for parking in connection with the development will not coincide with the peak demand from the other land uses in the area” and “the development is adjacent to, and well served by, good public transport and pedestrian links”.  Councillor Colville advised in his opinion the parking can be met by adequate parking in the vicinity and was minded to grant the application.

 

Councillor McNaughton advised he had received sufficient clarification on the Planning Officer’s opinion change from the alteration of the redline boundary being ‘non material’ to ‘material’ and agreed with Councillor Colville to grant the application.

 

The Chair confirmed that he agreed with the opinions of both his colleagues and asked for clarification on whether the application could be granted.

 

Mr Jackson advised the Board that if they were mindful to grant the application then they would require to have a competent motion and conditions would have to be attached to the consent and it would be appropriate in the circumstances to have the Planning Department submit draft conditions for consideration by the Members at a further meeting of the LRB in order that a final decision could be made.

 

Decision

 

The LRB agreed:-

 

1.             To request from Planning appropriate conditions to be attached to any consent should the LRB be minded to approve the Notice of Review request; and

 

2.             To reconvene at a suitable date in Kilmory, Lochgilphead.

 

 

The Argyll and Bute Local Review Body re-convened on Wednesday 10 August 2011 at  ...  view the full minutes text for item 3.