Issue - meetings

Proposed Development

*3.1     Full Planning Permission: Retention of mail order business from home workshop, including use of the workshop for light engineering operations associated with the sale of bird related equipment. (KET/2018/0937) at 4 Richardsons Lane, Loddington for Mr J Westwood

            Application No: NK/2021/0034

Speakers:

Cllr Jim Hakewill attended the meeting and addressed the committee as the ward councillor for the proposed development stating that application should be refused as the original development was established retrospectively without consent. Cllr Hakewill also stated that the business on site had a detrimental impact on residential amenity and that the development was not in keeping with the residential nature of neighbouring properties.

Decision

Members received a report about a proposal for which full planning permission was being sought for the retention of the current use of a the site as a home workshop for a mail order business, including use of the workshop for light engineering operations associated with the sale of bird related equipment.

It was confirmed to members that the current use at the site had been granted a temporary two-year conditional planning approval under reference KET/2018/0937, to see if there would have been any impacts on residential amenity, and that this application sought to replace this with a permanent planning permission.

Members sought clarification regarding the nature of the business and the prospect of the site being used to breed birds. Members also raised questions in relation to enfocrcement actiona and complaints.

It was confirmed to members that the business was a mail order buisiness and that the breeding of birds was outside of the planning application. It was also confirmed that there had been no complaints to enforcement officers.

Following debate it was proposed by Councillor Smyth and seconded by Councillor Prentice that the application be approved in line with the officers recommendation.

It was agreed that the application be APPROVED subject to the following conditions: