Agenda item

The application was for the variation of a condition applied to a previously approved planning application. 

The application had originally been approved by the Planning Applications Committee at its meeting on 1^st June 2023 however a condition had been imposed on the development stating that the development must commence within one year of the date of the permission, an implementation period which was shorter that the standard implementation period of three years. This shorter implementation period had been imposed in line with the Surrey Heath SANG Allocation Criteria 2020, which had been developed to ensure that SANG capacity would not be tied up for long periods by unimplemented consents. 

Since the Committee’s resolution of 1^st June 2023, the applicant had requested that the time limit to commence the development be extended from one to three years in order that the site could continue to be used as hostel accommodation for the homeless for a further 18 months in order to allow the sufficient time to enable alternative accommodation for the residents to be prepared and the residents subsequently rehomed into their new accommodation.   

The Committee was informed that the three year timescale for a development to commence would only start on the date that the legal agreement was issued.  Should development not commence within the stated time period then the planning permission would lapse and a new application would have to be submitted.

The officer’s recommendation to grant the application, subject to the conditions set out in the report, was proposed by Councillor Whitcroft, seconded by Councillor Wheeler, put to the vote and carried following the use of the Chairman’s casting vote.

RESOLVED that planning application 22/1182/FFU be approved.

NOTE 1

In accordance with In accordance with Part 4, Section D, Paragraph 18 of the Constitution the voting in favour of the motion to approve the application was as follows:

Voting in favour of the motion to approve:

Councillors Betton, MacDonald, O’Mahoney, Wheeler, Whitcroft and Wilson

Voting against the motion to approve:

Councillors Ashbery, Garrett, Rowlands, Skipper, Thompson and White

Abstaining:

Councillors Glauert and Kang

NOTE 2

It was noted for the record that Councillor Garrett had received correspondence from residents of Lawrence Lodge in his capacity as ward councillor for the Old Dean ward.