RESOLVED: - that the minutes of the Planning Committee held on 21 December 2021 be approved and signed by the Chairman.

Apologies were received from Councillors Mason, Lees and Spencer.

The Planning Solicitor advised members of the Planning Committee that in respect of applications 21/01286/COU and 21/01287/ADV they had been granted a dispensation by the Monitoring Officer to enable them to consider and vote on these applications which pertained to the Councils’ offices.

The Committee received the report of the Development Management Team Manager, together with information and details received after the agenda was prepared.

21/00867/FUL – LAND ADJACENT TO THE OLD VICARAGE, OLD VICARAGE LANE, DUNSTON, ST18 9AD - APPLICANT – MR GAVIN SHERRATT - PARISH – DUNSTON AND COPPENHALL. 

Local Member, Councillor L Bates was in support of the application. Local Member, Councillor I Ford spoke against the application.

RESOLVED That APPROVAL of this application be delegated to the Development Management Manager to issue, subject to a unilateral undertaking and to conditions as set out in the Planning Officer’s report.

Councillor Ford abstained from voting.

21/01171/FUL – 4 JOHNSGATE, BREWOOD, ST19 9HZ – APPLICANT – MR C ALLCOTT – PARISH – BREWOOD AND COVEN

Chris Allcott (applicant) spoke in support of the application.

Peter Rivers and Councillor W Sutton spoke against the application.  

Councillor Holmes as local member did not support the application, believing the proposed extension to be large and invasive and not in keeping with the street scene.

Councillor Holmes moved a motion to refuse the application as it was contrary to EQ9 and EQ11.

Councillor Boyle seconded the motion.

The motion was defeated.

Councillors Reade and Steele had attended a site visit and felt the proposal was acceptable. 

RESOLVED that the application be APPROVED subject to the conditions set out in the Planning Officer’s report.

21/01190/FUL – MILE FLAT HOUSE, MILE FLAT, GREENSFORGE, DY6 0AU – APPLICANT – MR DEAN HISCOX – PARISH – KINVER

Local Member, Councillor L Hingley supported the application.

RESOLVED That the application be APPROVED subject to the conditions contained in the Planning Officers Report

21/01286/COU – COUNCIL OFFICES, WOLVERHAMPTON ROAD, CODSALL, WV8 1PX – APPLICANT – SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE COUNCIL – PARISH – CODSALL

RESOLVED That the application be APPROVED subject to the conditions contained in the Planning Officers Report

21/01287/ADV – COUNCIL OFFICES, WOLVERHAMPTON ROAD, CODSALL, WV8 1PX – APPLICANT – SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE COUNCIL – PARISH – CODSALL

The Committee received the report of the Lead Planning Manager informing the committee on key matters including training; changes that impact on National Policy; any recent appeal decisions; relevant planning enforcement cases (quarterly); and latest data produced by the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government.

RESOLVED That the Committee note the update report.