Agenda for Planning Committee on Wednesday, 21st March, 2018, 2.30 pm

Agenda and minutes

Venue: Ground Floor Committee Room - Loxley House, Station Street, Nottingham, NG2 3NG. View directions

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Items
No. Item

64.

Apologies for Absence

Minutes:

Councillor Cheryl Barnard – personal

Councillor Azad Choudhry – health

Councillor Sally Longford – personal

Councillor Andrew Rule – work commitments (Councillor Jim Armstrong attending as substitute)

65.

Declarations of Interest

Minutes:

None.

66.

Minutes pdf icon PDF 140 KB

To agree the minutes of the meeting held 21 February 2018.

Minutes:

The minutes from the meeting held 21 February 2018 were agreed as a correct record and signed by the Chair.

67.

Middleton Primary And Nursery School, Harrow Road pdf icon PDF 1 MB

Minutes:

Rob Percival, Area Planning Manager, introduced application 17/02822/PFUL3 by CPMG Architects Limited on behalf of Nottingham City Council, for the erection of a new Early Years building, an extension to create two additional classrooms, an extension to the hall and new car park, and the demolition of the existing nursery block. A further update sheet was circulated detailed an additional objection. The application has been brought to Planning Committee because it has generated a high level of public interest contrary to the recommendations of Planning colleagues. Rob Percival gave a presentation to Councillors showing aerial views, maps with the layout of the school and location of proposed building works, photos of the front and rear of the site. He highlighted the following points:

 

(a)  it is proposed to expand the school from 420 places to 630 places for pupils, gradually over a seven year period;

 

(b)  10 representations have been received from local residents, mainly relating to parking issues, which have been addressed by the applicant in the report, and the loss of trees on the site, which has been assessed by Nottingham City Council’s Tree Preservation Officer who is satisfied that none of the removed trees are of a quality which requires preservation. A Tree Preservation Order has, however, been made for other trees on the site as a result of this inspection.

 

There followed a number of questions and comments from the Committee, and some further information was provided:

 

(c)  as the main concern of local residents relates to car parking and traffic, particularly in light of the increase of school places, the review of Traffic Regulation Orders is welcomed. It is not possible to provide pedestrian access directly on to school grounds from the community centre, as there is a medical centre between the car park and the school grounds. The medical centre does not currently suffer from displaced parking, and no objections have been received from them;

 

(d)  details for the new trees are still to be agreed. The intention is for them all to be placed on the site, as there is a generous area of amenity land available.

 

RESOLVED to:

 

(1)  grant planning permission subject to indicative conditions as listed in the draft decision notice at the end of the report;

 

(2)  delegate authority to determine the final details of the conditions to the Head of Development Management and Regeneration.