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17/503401 - Catharos Lithos, Yelsted Road, Yelsted, Sittingbourne, Kent, ME9 7UU

Meeting: 04/01/2018 - Planning Committee (Item 350)

350 17/503401 - CHANGE OF USE FROM C3 (RESIDENTIAL) TO MIXED USE C3 (RESIDENTIAL) AND SUI GENERIS FOR THE TRAINING OF CANINES AND ASSOCIATED BOARDING AND ACTIVITIES (RETROSPECTIVE) - CATHAROS LITHOS, YELSTED ROAD, YELSTED, SITTINGBOURNE, KENT pdf icon PDF 131 KB

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Minutes:

The Chairman and Councillors Cox, Mrs Gooch, Perry and Round stated that they had been lobbied.

 

The Committee considered the report of the Head of Planning and Development.

 

Mr Hobbs, an objector, Councillor Bingham of Stockbury Parish Council and Councillor Garten (Visiting Member) addressed the meeting.

 

The Development Manager advised the Committee that he wished to amend the first sentence of proposed condition 2 to read:

 

The number of client dogs brought onto the site for training or accommodated overnight shall not exceed four customers with one dog per customer per calendar week and a log of these customers shall be kept.

 

RESOLVED:

 

1.  That permission be granted subject to the conditions and informatives set out in the report, as amended by the Development Manager at the meeting, with the amendment of condition 5 (Means of Enclosure) and an additional condition (Security Measures to Prevent Dogs Escaping from the Site) as follows:

 

  Condition 5 (Means of Enclosure) (amended)

 

  Within 3 months of the date of this decision, details of any permanent or temporary gates, walls, fences or other means of enclosure sited within the site area shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority and implemented in strict accordance with the approved details within 2 months of that decision. The details shall include a landscape scheme of mixed native hedgerows to screen the arena and the post and rail fence line demarcating the ancillary training field from the rest of the holding.  The landscaping scheme shall be designed in accordance with the principles of the Council's landscape character guidance and all such landscaping shall be carried out during the next planting season (October 2018 to February 2019).  Any seeding or turfing which fails to establish or any trees or plants which, within five years from the end of the next planting season (February 2019), die or become so seriously damaged or diseased that their long term amenity value has been adversely affected shall be replaced in the next planting season with plants of the same species and size as detailed in the approved landscape scheme unless the Local Planning Authority gives written consent to any variation.

 

Reason:  To enable the Local Planning Authority to protect the visual amenities of the locality.

 

Additional Condition (Security Measures to Prevent Dogs Escaping from the Site)

 

The wording of this condition is to be finalised by the Head of Planning and Development acting under delegated powers in consultation with the Ward Member and the Parish Council.

 

2.  That the details to be submitted pursuant to the condition relating to security measures to prevent dogs escaping from the site are to be agreed in consultation with the Ward Member and the Parish Council.

 

Voting:  8 – For  2 – Against  0 – Abstentions