Agenda item

12.1 14LPA1011/CC – Plot 12, Mona Industrial Estate

12.2 15C116G – 5 Bythynnod Gwenllyr, Malltraeth

12.3  19LPA1014/CC – Penrhos Industrial Estate, Holyhead

12.4  25C248 – Unit 1, Maes Athen, Llanerchymedd

12.5  39LPA1012/TPO/CC – Old Reservoir, Menai Bridge

12.1    14LPA1011/CC – Full application for the erection of a storage facility/warehouse building at Plot 12, Mona Industrial Estate

The application is presented to the Planning and Orders Committee as the application is made by the Council on land owned by the Council.

Councillor Lewis Davies proposed that the application be approved and the proposal was seconded by Councillor Victor Hughes.

It was resolved to approve the application in accordance with the Officer’s recommendation subject to the conditions listed in the written report.

12.2    15C116G – Full application for alterations and extensions at 5 Bythynnod Gwenllyr, Malltraeth

The application is presented to the Planning and Orders Committee as it has been called in by a Local Member.

Mr Henri Hughes addressed the Committee in support of the application to the effect that as a neighbour of the applicants he had contacted them of his own volition to speak for the proposal which would in his opinion, represent a fitting conclusion to a series of improvements made to the complex by the applicants over the course of several years and would not impede on himself as the nearest neighbour and resident of Ty Pigyn. He said that it was his opinion that new builds can sometimes be more of a blot on the landscape than what is proposed under the current application and that the Committee can decide in terms of black and white or can take the middle course of common sense.

Councillor Ann Griffith said that she was standing down as Vice-Chair for this application in order to address the meeting as a Local Member in support of the application. She emphasised the accommodation needs of the family who currently live in a one bedroom cottage on site, in caring for two autistic grandsons whose challenging behavioural needs require separate bedrooms. She said that although Bodorgan Community Council objects to the proposal on account of its size, the neighbours are supportive of it. The proposal will complete the complex which was once in ruins but which now comprises converted buildings of a high standard.

The Planning Development Manager reported that this is the applicants’ third application within the last twelve month period. The main planning consideration is whether the scale and design of the proposed extension would affect the character of the original building as well as the conversions in the vicinity and the AONB. Although sympathetic to the applicants’ situation, the Officer is of the opinion that the proposal is still unacceptable in terms of scale and design being even larger than that previously refused by the Committee in October, 2014. As such it is considered that the proposal would detrimentally impact the character of the surrounding amenities and the AONB and is therefore not compliant with planning policy. The Officer’s recommendation is one of refusal.

Whilst the majority of the Committee’s Members took the Officer’s view of the proposal as being an overly large development of the existing building,  and thus likely to impact to an unacceptable degree on the surrounding area and landscape, Councillors Jeff Evans, Vaughan Hughes and Nicola Roberts took an opposing view in believing that the proposal seeks to meet specific needs and that in the context of the area in general where there are other large properties, it would not unduly harm the surrounding landscape having enough space around it to mitigate any impact.

Councillor Lewis Davies proposed that the application be refused in line with the Officer’s recommendation and his proposal was seconded by Councillor Kenneth Hughes. Councillor Jeff Evans proposed that the proposal be approved and his proposal was seconded by Councillor Nicola Roberts. In the subsequent vote the proposal to refuse the application was carried.

It was resolved to refuse the application in accordance with the Officer’s recommendation for the reasons given in the written report. (Councillor Ann Griffith did not vote on the matter as a Local Member)  

12.3    19LPA1014/CC – Full application to change external wall and roof cladding together with the erection of a storage building at Penrhos Industrial Estate, Holyhead

The application is presented to the Planning and Orders Committee as the application is made by the Council on land owned by the Council.

Councillor Vaughan Hughes proposed that the application be approved and his proposal was seconded by Councillor Lewis Davies.

It was resolved to approve the application in accordance with the Officer’s recommendation subject to the conditions listed in the written report.

12.4    25C248 – Full application for the change of use of building from retail to launderette at Unit 1, Maes Athen, Llanerchymedd

The application is presented to the Planning and Orders Committee as it is on Council owned land.

Councillor Lewis Davies proposed that the application be approved and the proposal was seconded by Councillor Kenneth Hughes.

It was resolved to approve the application in accordance with the Officer’s recommendation subject to the conditions listed in the written report.

12.5    39LPA1012/TPO/CC – Application to remove 1 ash tree, reduce 1 ash tree and works to 1 sycamore tree which are protected by a Tree Preservation Order at Old Reservoir, Menai Bridge

The application is presented to the Planning and Orders Committee as it is on Council owned land.

Councillor Victor Hughes proposed that the application be approved and his proposal was seconded by Councillor Richard Owain Jones.

It was resolved to approve the application in accordance with the Officer’s recommendation subject to the condition set out in the written report.