09 April 2024 – Agenda
SUMMONS TO ATTEND A MEETING
TO: All Members of the Planning and Environment Committee
Cllrs M Baines (Deputy Chairman), P Cowell, D Dodds, L Emery, H Fickling (Chairman), C Jones, H Richards, and P Swan
Ex Officio (Voting) Members – A Dite (Town Mayor) and A Gilbert (Deputy Mayor)
To all other Members for information
You are hereby summoned to attend a meeting of the Planning & Environment Committee on Tuesday 9 April 2024 at 6.30pm (maximum one hour) in the Upper Chamber (Thame Town Hall) for the transaction of business as set out on the attached agenda.
Mandy Sturdy
Clerk of the Council
Date: Wednesday 3 April 2024
AGENDA
1) Apologies for Absence
2) Declarations of Interest and Dispensations
To notify of any items that appear in the agenda in which there may be an interest that has not been recorded in the Member’s Register of Interest, and confirmation of any relevant dispensations.
3) Public Participation and Public Questions
To consider applications from members of the public to address the Committee (5 minutes maximum), in respect of any item of business included in the agenda. Applications to speak must have been received by the Town Clerk no later than 5pm on the last working day preceding the meeting.
To consider questions from members of the public (who live, work, or run a business in the Parish). Written questions must have been received by the Town Clerk no later than 4pm on the last working day preceding the meeting.
4) Minutes
To confirm as a correct record the Minutes of the Committee Meeting held on 12 March 2024.
5) Planning Applications
a) To consider and agree a response for each of the following planning applications:
1837 – UNIT 8, GOODSON INDUSTRIAL MEWS, WELLINGTON STREET – EMAIL FROM CASE OFFICER
Change of use of existing storage/light industrial unit from B8 to E(D).(Email received from case officer 27.3.24)
P24/S0433/FUL
1855 – RECTORY PAVILLION, CHINNOR RUGBY CLUB, KINGSEY ROAD
Installation of semi-permanent food service container.
P24/S0875/FUL
1855 Policies & Key Issues Report [PDF]
1857 – 95A HIGH STREET
Replacement windows to first and second floors and replacement roof window to second floor.
P24/S0860/FUL
1857 Policies & Key Issues Report [PDF]
1858 – NATIONWIDE BUILDING SOCIETY, 99 HIGH STREET
Replacement of signage as follows; a projecting sign with a new 500mm fascia and a logo with a new blue fascia & a new 290mm logo height, an ATM surround and decals with new statutory signage with new safety manifestation with new decoration to shopfront frames in grey to match existing. Post box number to be sprayed in grey. Removal of receipt bin.
P24/S0888/FUL
1858 & 1859 Policies & Key Issues Report [PDF]
1859 – NATIONWIDE BUILDING SOCIETY, 99 HIGH STREET
Replacement of signage as follows; a projecting sign with a new 500mm fascia and a logo with a new blue fascia & a new 290mm logo height, an ATM surround and decals with new statutory signage.
P24/S0889/A
1858 & 1859 Policies & Key Issues Report [PDF]
1860 – FOUR SEASONS, MORETON
Demolition of existing dwelling and erection of a replacement dwelling with access, parking and amenity space.
P24/S0711/FUL
1860 Policies & Key Issues Report [PDF]
b) To receive and approve the Officer’s recommendations for the following planning applications (these can be approved in bulk if there are no comments from the Committee):
1854 – 3 THAME PARK ROAD
Demolition of rear conservatory, replacement with single storey rear extension and garage conversion.
P24/S0739/HH
Officer recommendation: Support
6) Amended Plans – P23/S2269/RM – Thame Fields, Reserve Site C
Reserved Matters application seeking approval for the appearance, landscaping, layout and scale pursuant to Condition 1 of planning permission P21/S0917/O. (As amended & amplified by information received 26 September 2023, 29 November 2023, 6 February 2024 and 28 March 2024).
To receive the amended plans and agree to delegate the Town Council’s response to the amended plans to the Neighbourhood Plan Continuity Officer. (consultation closes 17 April)
7) Travel Plan Working Group
To receive an update and consider any relevant actions.
8) Airspace Change Proposal (ACP) – Oxford Aviation Services Limited – ACP-2023-033
To note that:
- The Town Council has been consulted on the Design Principles (Stage 1, Step B) consultation by Oxford Aviation Services Limited as a stakeholder within 20miles of London Oxford Airport.
- The consultation is a preliminary consultation focusing on criteria, best practice and legislative requirements. Officers have reviewed the information and at this stage there is little to comment on, but future consultations will warrant input from the Town Council as the ACP is likely to impact on Thame.
- Officers recommend that the following comment be made: “Thank you for informing Thame Town Council. We have no wish to comment on the assessment criteria, please keep in contact with us on this matter”.
9) For Information
a) Telecommunications 28-Day Notice – P24/S0873/T28 – Chinnor R.F.C Kingsey Road – Proposed upgrade to the existing 15.00m High Lattice Tower.
To note that the Town Council is not a statutory consultee, but if any Councillor has specific concerns, please be prepared to raise them in the meeting.
b) Additional Information – CM/0022/22 – Land to South East of Homage Farm, Bicester Road, Chilton, Buckinghamshire – Erection of anaerobic digestion facility, comprising silage clamps, digester tanks, lagoons, administrative buildings, landscaping and access.
To note that additional information (Response to Regulation 25 of the Town & Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017 & Additional Information Request) has been received. The Town Council originally submitted comments with regards to highways.
c) Amended Plans – P23/S4371/FUL – St Andrews Court, Wellington Street – External alterations to existing office buildings including to existing windows, incorporation of new terraced and inset roof balconies, roof lights, replacement of car parking spaces with external amenity area and new and additional cycle parking for occupiers and visitors (second floor south-facing terraces and one second floor west-facing terrace replaced by dormer windows and second floor terraces added to north and east elevations and additional privacy screening as shown on amended plans received 26th March 2024).
To note that having reviewed the amended plans, Officers considered that it would not change the Town Council’s recommendation made on 23 January 2024 to support the application subject to no objection from the County Highways Officer.