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17/505670 - Bletchingley Oast And Bletchingley Farm Industrial Estate, Pristling Lane, Staplehurst, Tonbridge, Kent, TN12 0HH

Meeting: 15/03/2018 - Planning Committee (Item 435)

435 17/505670 - CHANGE OF USE OF VACANT OASTHOUSE AND STABLES TO 2 RESIDENTIAL DWELLINGS; DEMOLITION OF ALL OUTBUILDINGS AND CLEARANCE OF SITE TO ERECT 3 NO. TWO STOREY HOUSES AND 2 NO. SEMI-DETACHED SINGLE STOREY COTTAGES - BLETCHINGLEY OAST AND BLETCHINGLEY FARM INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, PRISTLING LANE, STAPLEHURST, TONBRIDGE, KENT PDF 148 KB

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Minutes:

All Members except Councillor Vizzard stated that they had been lobbied.

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

Mrs Moore, an objector, and Mr Norton, for the applicant, addressed the meeting.

It was noted that Councillor Buller of Staplehurst Parish Council had registered to speak on this application, but was unable to attend the meeting due to illness. Details of the speech that Councillor Buller intended to deliver on behalf of the Parish Council had been circulated to Members of the Committee that afternoon.

RESOLVED: That permission be granted subject to the conditions set out in the report, as amended/deleted by the urgent update report, and that the Head of Planning and Development be given delegated powers to include either a condition or a S106 Head of Term to ensure that, in the interests of biodiversity and landscape, the boundary buffer areas shown brown and hatched on the plan are preserved as communal, strategic landscape buffers, not in private ownership, and designed to allow access for maintenance as and when required.

Voting: 8 – For 1 – Against 0 – Abstentions