Issue - meetings

12.1 - 12C266H - ABC Power Marine, Gallows Point, Beaumaris

12.2 - 40C48E/EIA - Lifeboat Station, Moelfre

12.3 - South Stack Public Convenience, South Stack, Holyhead

12.1 12C266H - ABC Power Marine, Gallows Point, Beaumaris

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

12.2 40C48E/EIA - Lifeboat Station, Moelfre

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

12.3 46LPA972/CC South Stack Public Convenience, South Stack, Holyhead

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

12.1 12C266H – Application for the variation of conditions (04) and (06) on planning permission reference 12C266G to allow for the details of proposed slab levels of the building(s) and a scheme for the provision and implementation of surface water drainage to be submitted following commencement of works on site at ABC Power Marine, Gallows Point, Beaumaris

The application is reported to the Committee because the Isle of Anglesey Council is the land owner.

The Planning Development Manager informed the Committee that both the Drainage Officer and the Environment Agency have confirmed that the application is acceptable.

Councillor Kenneth Hughes proposed that the application be approved and he was seconded by Councillor Jim Evans.

It was resolved to approve the application in accordance with the Officer’s recommendation subject to the conditions contained within the written report. (Councillor R.L.Owen as the Local Member did not vote on the matter)

12.2 40C48E/EIA – Demolition of the existing life boat house and slipway together with the construction of a new life boat house and slipway at Lifeboat Station, Moelfre

The application is submitted to the Committee as it is the subject of an EIA.

The Chair invited Mr Elfed Jones, an objector to the application to address the Committee.

Mr Jones said that he was speaking from the heart on this matter as a former member of the Moelfre Lifeboat for 36 years and that he was present on behalf of a number of the village’s residents who also object to the application - not because they do not want a new lifeboat but because the proposed building that will house the boat which will be situated in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty is almost twice as large as the present building. If anyone wanted to build a house or wind turbine on the coast in Moelfre, they would not be given consent.  Whilst the matter of the lifeboat is a very sentimental issue – and that is understandable - it is also a fact that the building will be there for a 100 years. The applicants want to close the coastal path for 2 years and build a road – Mr Jones pointed out that the way down to the boathouse is extremely dangerous and cars come down it like “lunatics” when the boat is requisitioned. The feeling is that the RNLI has gone about things in the wrong way and has bought the furniture before building the house. Shouldn’t the Institute have asked for permission to build the house first before bringing in the furniture? Mr Jones said that he believed the Institution had treated the residents of Moelfre disgracefully and that he himself was from Moelfre as was his family. He emphasised that the residents were not against the lifeboat but do not see why Moelfre needs a lifeboat house on the scale proposed. If the Institution had wanted a lifeboat of this standard in the area then it should have been located elsewhere in Amlwch Port.  He  ...  view the full minutes text for item 12