19:53 – County Hall
Cheetah Marine
Mr Cornwell (planning) – being asked to alter conditions.
1st – condition 14 – completion of a legal agreement – open toilet, cafe, harbour masters office.
Request from applicant to delete the requirements for harbour masters office and cafe. In the view of planning removing this would take away a fundamental building block of this agreement.
Cond 15 – Access route to the site to be complete before the building is started. Have taken advice from consultees.
Due to H&S the road will need to be closed
We think it would be a good idea to vary this condition.
Change wording using a split decision. Refuse the first, reject the second.
Further element – Due to an oversight (at officer level), it was there as a general agreement
Discussion with the developers – Willing to accept corrected terms.
__Prof Russell – CPRE
Wish to provide full support to the planing officers and their report.
Prof Russell giving the background on how we got to here.
Agree that cafe is not vital – be better if it should be chandlery
Sections 106 should be signed before start of building
Prof Russell finished spot on the 3 mins.
Cllr Scoccia – it’s all been said by the officers and Prof Russell.
Questions – Is there anything that stops the cafe and harbour master office being sublet to another party.
BB – No, that’s outside planning scope.
Cllr Miller – Concerned that conditions that have been passed by councillors are missed off by officers. Would like assurance from Mr Murphy that it won’t happen again.
Mr Murphy – It’s my memory that the condition was explicit. We are sorry for the error and are looking at the process how we put together notices following a committee.
Chair – It’s still fresh in your minds as we’ve recently dealt with it. Guidance is clear from the officers.
Clr Mosdell – What category does Marine use fall into? B1, B2, B3, etc. Would they be able to build taxi’s for example.
Mr Pegram – Unless their water taxi’s – No. (laughter all round)
11 Votes to Accept recommendations.
No refusals or abstentions.
Recommendation is to permit start of building at same time as highways and refusal to change condition 14.
Refuse to vary Condition 14 on P/02013/06 for the following reason:
To delete all references of land uses other than the provision of toilet and shower facilities for Ventnor Haven users from Condition 14 of planning permission P/02013/06 would not be in accordance with the mixed use ethos for this building and therefore would be contrary to the aims of the Ventnor Esplanade Development Brief.
