Agenda item

The application was for the provision of outdoor play equipment.  (Additional Plans recv'd 31/08/2017.) (Additional Information - Rec'd 01/11/2017 & 02/11/2017.) (Additional plan recv'd 25/5/18), (Amended plans & additional info rec'd 14/08/18).

Members were advised of the following updates on the application:

“Three further objections have been received, on the basis of amended details, raising these further issues:

•           The slide has not been built, whilst the rest of the proposed equipment has been built and in operation for many months;

•           The overall height will remain at 5 metres (on raised land);

•           The adventure farm has been run successfully without the slide; and

•           Lack of education and animal provision at the site since opening.

[Officer comment: The slide is proposed at a height of 3 metres above ground level.  It is noted that the ground level varies in this part of the site and therefore a condition concerning the prior agreement of levels are proposed]

Two further responses from the Chobham Parish Council received raising further objections in relation to these further issues:

•           The proposed (revised) slide would be unneighbourly;

•           The history of significant non-compliance and unfulfilled conditions relating to the site which has created long standing enforcement issues; and

•           The Parish Council should have been re-notified of amended plans.”

In addition as a result of historic planning issues on the site, the Committee added an informative advising the applicant that there was no additional permitted development rights for the farm park. The informative also instructed that any further development on the site would require planning permission.

The recommendation to approve the application was proposed by Councillor Colin Dougan and seconded by Councillor Adrian Page. The recommendation was put to the vote and carried.

RESOLVED that application 18/0427 be granted subject to the conditions set out in the officer report as amended.

Note 1

It was noted for the record that:

i.              Councillor Edward Hawkins and other members of the Committee had attended various Member Site Visits on the site of the application.

ii.            All Members of the Committee had received various pieces of correspondence on the application.

iii.           Councillor Pat Tedder declared that she knew the Chobham Parish Council Clerk, who was a resident of the neighbouring property to the site.

iv.           Councillor Pat Tedder was a Member of the Chobham and West End Joint Burial Committee.

v.            Councillor Katia Malcaus Cooper declared that her family visited the site for leisure and her friend was employed by the adventure park.

vi.           Councillor David Mansfield had attended the site for leisure and had received various pieces of correspondence on the Planning Application. However he did not pass comment on the application.

vii.          Councillor Victoria Wheeler and other Members of the Committee had received an email from Chobham Parish Council in relation to the Planning Application.

Note 2

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 Nick Chambers, Mrs Vivienne Chapman, Colin Dougan, Surinder Gandhum, Edward Hawkins, Jonathan Lytle, Max Nelson, Adrian Page and Ian Sams.

Voting against the recommendation to grant the application:

Councillors Katia Malcaus Cooper, David Mansfield, Paul Ilnicki, Pat Tedder, Victoria Wheeler and Valerie White.