Issue - meetings

7.1  14C257 – Cefn Trefor, Trefor

7.1  Outline application for the erection of an affordable dwelling together with full details of the vehicular access and drainage with all other matters reserved on land adjacent to Cefn Trefor, Trefor

It was RESOLVED to reaffirm the previous decision to approve the application contrary to the Officer’s recommendation subject to a S106 legal agreement in respect that the dwelling is to be an ‘affordable dwelling’.  (Councillor John Griffith abstained from voting).

7.1  Outline application for the erection of an affordable dwelling together with full details of the vehicular access and drainage with all other matters reserved on land adjacent to Cefn Trefor, Trefor

The application was reported to the Planning and Orders Committee at the request of a Local Member on the grounds of proximity to the cluster and a local need.  At its meeting held on the 7^th November, 2018 the Committee resolved to approve the application contrary to Officer’s recommendation.

Councillor Bob Parry OBE FRAgS, Local Member said that the applicants have lived most of their lives within the Canolbarth Môn area.  He referred to the designs of the properties in Trefor and did not believe that approving this application would be intrusive within the community.  Councillor Parry said that the applicants wish to build a home for their young family of four children and asked the Committee to reaffirm their previous decision to approve the application.

The Planning Development Manager reported that the application is for an affordable dwelling on land adjacent to Cefn Trefor, Trefor.  The application was approved contrary to the Officer’s recommendation as it was considered that the dwelling fits into the area and would not look out of place and that the applicants are local to the area as the application site is within Canolbarth Môn where they were brought up and so the proposal complies with Criterion 4 of the Policy.  She said that as was highlighted at the last meeting the definition of local to Canolbarth Môn does not comply with the definition within the policy as being ‘local’.  The policy supports proposals for affordable dwellings for local need providing all the criteria are met.  The policy defines local need as ‘people in need of an affordable dwelling who have resided within the cluster or in the surrounding rural area for a continuous period of 5 years or more, either immediately before submitting the application or in the past.’  The applicants lived at RAF Valley before selling their home.  The policy does not permit individuals to move out of other villages to clusters in order to obtain an affordable dwelling; the policy is for people who live within clusters to be able to submit applications for affordable dwellings.  The Planning Development Manager said that whist accepting that there is an ‘affordable need’ by the applicants the application does not conform to specific criteria within planning policies. 

Councillor Eric W Jones that the site is adjacent to a coloured building on the inset map and is within the curtilage of the property in front of it and therefore conforms with policy 6.2 within the joint development plan.  Councillor Eric W Jones proposed reaffirm the previous decision to approve the application contrary to the Officer’s recommendation. 

The Planning Development Manager said that as stipulated within the Officer’s report to the Committee at its previous meeting, this proposed application does satisfy some of the planning criteria.  It is accepted that the dwelling will  ...  view the full minutes text for item 7