Agenda and minutes

To receive apologies for non attendance.

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All Members are required to disclose at this point in the meeting or as soon as possible thereafter, any disclosable pecuniary interest or personal interest in any item(s) being considered at this meeting.

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To sign as a true and correct record the minutes of the meeting held on 26 July 2023.

RESOLVED: That the minutes of the meeting held on 26 July 2023 be signed as a true and correct record.

NOTE: The Board is required to receive a deputation(s) on a matter which is before the meeting of the Board provided that notice of the intended deputation and its object shall have been received by the Borough Solicitor by 12 noon on Monday 4 September 2023.  The total time for deputations in favour and against a proposal shall not exceed 10 minutes.

Deputations were received on item 21/00516/FULL

NOTE: The Board is required to allow a total of 15 minutes for questions from Members of the public on matters within the terms of reference of the Board provided that notice of such Question(s) shall have been submitted to the Borough Solicitor by 12 noon on Monday 4 September 2023.

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To seek Members’ support to go out to public consultation on the draft ‘Gosport Lines Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan’ (including the recommendation that Trinity Green and Walpole Park be designated a Conservation Area); and, to review Priddy’s Hard and Royal Clarence Yard Conservation Areas, as set out in the Heritage Action Zone Delivery Plan.

Consideration was given to a report of the Principal Conservation and Design Officer seeking approval to undertake public consultation on the draft ‘Gosport Lines Conservation Area appraisal and Management Plan’

The Board was advised that it was a statutory duty to identify areas that may be considered to be Conservation Areas and the proposal for consideration for consultation was Trinity Green and Walpole Park, which would sit beside the existing St George’s Barrack area.

Members felt there was no reason not to consult on the proposal and thanked officers for their work.

RESOLVED: That

A public consultation on the following be undertaken:

i)     the potential designation of a new Conservation Area covering Trinity Green and Walpole Park;

ii)    a review of the Royal Clarence Yard Conservation Area;

iii)   a review of the Priddy’s Hard Conservation Area;

iv)   a draft ‘Gosport Lines’ Conservation Areas Appraisal and Management Plan covering the existing St George’s Barracks North and South Conservation Areas and the proposed Trinity Green and Walpole Park Conservation Area;

v)    a draft Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan for the Royal Clarence Yard Conservation Area; and,

vi)   a draft Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan for the Priddy’s Hard Conservation Area.

To consider the report of the Development Manager

Consideration was given to the report of the Development Manager detailing planning application 21/00516/FULL

The Board was updated that paragraph 4 of the Principal Issues of the report detailed that the car parking spaces were compliant in size, however it was noted that while the majority met, or exceeded the dimensions within the parking SPD, the end space adjacent to the side wall of No. 189 should ideally be 165mm wider. In this instance it was not considered that the deficiency would prejudice users of the space and was acceptable.

The recommendation remained to grant conditional permission.

The Board was advised that the application related to the erection of a part single and part two-storey building to form 5 one bedroom flats. The existing hoarding on the corner of Forton Road and Alma Street was to be retained being outside of the applicant’s ownership. 5 car parking spaces were proposed with 2 accessed from Alma Street and the remainder from Reeds Place. A small area of amenity space was provided, along with refuse and cycle storage.

Julie Mundy was invited to address the Board. She advised that she resided at number 189 Forton Road, a three storey property, next to the application site.

She advised that she was asking the elected members to represent her to stop the development going ahead. She advised that she was sick with concern about the impact the proposal would have on her own property and felt the proposal was unfair because of the impact on her area, her town and her property.

She advised that her house was over 100 years old and that the excavation for the foundations would impact on her property foundations and could cause damage, flood and freezing to her vulnerable foundations.

She advised that the planning department has told her the issues raised were her issues, whereas she felt that the issues were those of the developer and the Council not private legal issues as advised.

The proposal was claustrophobic not only to her property but to those on Alma Street and this has not been considered as part of the application and felt the planning department only advocated the developer and did not consider the harmful impact.

She advised that the proposal would shadow her garden blocking light and would create a security risk from access to her garden and impact the privacy on her balcony where her grandchildren played.

The natural light from the property was from her rear windows which would be impacted and render her property worthless from the negative impact.

A Member sought clarification with regard to the loss of light at the property and it was confirmed that the property had no windows to either side and that the windows at the front of the house were covered because of the close proximity of pedestrians to the windows. The balcony formed the majority of the outside space and this would be impacted.

The Board was advised that the property was not directly  ...  view the full minutes text for item 23.

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