Issue - meetings

Planning Application 2024/92394 for the development of an attenuation basin and associated access relating to planning permission 2021/92801 on land at Merchant Fields Farm, off Hunsworth Lane, Cleckheaton.

Ward affected: Cleckheaton

Contact: Victor Grayson, Planning Services

Approval delegated.

The Committee considered Planning Application 2024/92394 for the development of an attenuation basin and associated access relating to planning permission 2021/92801 on land at Merchant Fields Farm, off Hunsworth Lane, Cleckheaton.

Under the provisions of Council Procedure Rule 36(3), the Committee received a representation from Councillor Kath Pinnock.

Under the provisions of Council Procedure Rule 37, the Committee received representations from Mr T Rankin (objector) and Jon Beeson (on behalf of the applicant).

RESOLVED -

That approval of the application and the issuing of the decision notice be delegated to the Head of Planning and Development in order to complete the list of conditions including those contained within the report (subject to the deletion of Conditions 6, 7, 8 ,9 and 10) and the update (two additional conditions, 10 and 11 below), as set out below:

1.    Three years to commence development

2.    Development to be carried out in accordance with the approved plans and specifications.

3.    Submission of a Construction (Environmental) Management Plan, including details of engagement with local residents.

4.    Submission of temporary drainage scheme.

5.    Submission of maintenance, management and monitoring arrangements (including in relation to drainage infrastructure, Biodiversity Net Gain and public footpath crossing)

6.    Implementation of mine shaft remediation (as per condition 23 of permission 2021/92801).

7.    Submission of a full landscaping scheme.

8.    Submission of details of access track (including adoptable connection to residential development’s estate road network, materials, boundary treatments, gates, and public footpath crossing).

9.    Submission of boundary treatment details (including warning signage).

10.Unexpected contamination (if found) to be reported. Remediation Strategy to be submitted.

11.Strategy to be submitted if imported materials are to be used

together with additional conditions to secure:

12.Provision of additional water safety features

13.Provision of construction access between Hunsworth Lane and the site prior to basin development commencing.

and an informative, advising the applicant that the statutory pre-commencement condition (requiring a Biodiversity Gain Plan to be submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority) is also recommended.

A recorded vote was taken, in accordance with Council Procedure Rule 42(5), as set out below:

For: Councillors Armer, Firth, Homewood, Lawson, Pinnock and Thompson

(6 votes)