Decision details

To grant planning permission subject to planning conditions and informatives in accordance with the committee resolution of the Strategic and Technical Planning Committee of 31st March 2025 and in accordance with the resolution, the addition of a planning condition requiring a scheme for the future maintenance of the access roads and an addition to the informative regarding CCTV to refer to the access roads. The condition and informative wording have been first agreed in writing by the chair of the committee.

In accordance with the resolution of the Strategic and Technical Planning Committee on 31st March 2025. The wording of the additional planning condition and amended wording of the informative have been agreed with the Chair of the Committee on 31^st March 2025 in accordance with the resolution of the committee.

A late comment was received after the committee meeting on 31st March 2025 from the National Grid. It was however a repeat of a response they had already submitted on the application in September 2024 which had been summarised in the committee report presented to the January 2025 meeting and was available to view on the planning register at the time of the committee meeting. The late comment does not therefore raise any new issues or considerations that weren’t already considered by the officer in the committee report. The chair has also been made aware of this matter. Given the contents of the representation had been received previously and therefore were summarised already in the committee report it is considered that the receipt of the late representation on 31st March would not have led to a materially different outcome at the committee meeting.

The case officer was also made aware following the committee meeting of a representation sent directly to the members of the planning committee by email on 26th March 2025, which was not copied to the case officer. Therefore, whilst the case officer did not summarise the representation in the update sheet or as part of their verbal presentation the members had the representation to consider at the time of the committee meeting. The case officer has reviewed the representation since the meeting, having been made aware of it, and considers it does not raise new issues, given the contents of the committee reports, verbal presentations to the committee, responses to public speaking and technical questions at the meetings and the consultations and subsequent responses received from the Environment Agency and the DFRS during the life of the application.

None – as decision is in accordance with the resolution of the committee.