Agenda item

Application Number: 18/0471- 2b London Road, Bagshot, GU19 5HN

Minutes:

The application was for consent to display advertisements for the display of one internally illuminated fascia sign, one free standing sign and associated window adverts following removal of existing signage. (Amended plans rec'd 24/04/2018.)

 

This application would normally have been determined under the Council's Scheme of Delegation, however, it had been reported to the Planning Applications Committee at the request of Councillor Valerie White on the grounds that local residents had expressed disappointment about the illuminated signage.

 

Members were advised of the following updates:

 

“The Senior Environmental Health Officer has indicated that the application proposal states the level of illumination for the signs as 200cd/m2 each. The maximum levels recommended for a given area of illuminated advertising units are detailed in the document Brightness of Illuminated Advertisements PLG 05 produced by the Institute of Lighting Professionals. This guidance states within the updated 2015 version, that for an E2 to E3 environmental zone [i.e. low of medium brightness areas ranging from rural to urban/settlement locations], the maximum level to be 600-800cd/m2 each. The proposed are thus well within the maximum level and the EHO therefore has no objections.”

 

Resulting from concerns in regard to a potential unneighbourly effect of the lighting on nearby residential properties, Members proposed the condition to limit the illuminated signage’s lit hours to the gym’s opening hours.

 

The officer recommendation to grant the application as amended was proposed by Councillor Colin Dougan, seconded by Councillor Robin Perry and put to the vote and carried.

 

RESOLVED that application 18/0471 be granted subject to the conditions as set out in officer report as amended.

 

Note 1

In accordance with Part 4, Section D, paragraph 18 of the Constitution, the voting in relation to the application was as follows:

 

Voting in favour of the recommendation to grant the application:

 

Councillors: Mrs Vivienne Chapman, Colin Dougan, Surinder Gandhum, Edward Hawkins, Jonathan Lytle, David Mansfield, Max Nelson, Adrian Page, Robin Perry, Ian Sams and Victoria Wheeler.

 

Voting against the recommendation to grant the application:

 

Councillors Katia Malcaus Cooper, Conrad Sturt, Pat Tedder and Valerie White.

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