Agenda and minutes

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There were no declarations of interest received at this point in the meeting.

The minutes of the meeting of the Planning and Development Committee held on 13 February 2025 were submitted and approved as a correct record.

Schedule – Page 7

Item 1 – St David’s – Page 9

The Head of Planning submitted plans deposited as applications to develop land under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.

24/0356/VAR, Former St David’s School Acklam, Middlesbrough

The Development Control Manager advised Members that Application 20/0004/FUL was granted on the 26th July 2024 for a residential development of 139 dwellings (and demolition of Caretakers Houses) on the site of the former St David’s School. The application was placed before planning committee in February 2021 and the decision was to approve subject to S106/legal agreements being signed. The S106/legal agreement were not signed until July 2024.

Members were advised that the application sought to amend the scheme to alter the house types, to make slight adjustments to the site layout and to also re-define the wording around several conditions to better reflect the current position. The existing approved scheme however remains extant and able to be built out.

Members heard that there was 7 conditions to vary and areas of concern had been addressed with the variations.

The proposal was to amend several conditions imposed on the previously approved

scheme, those being;

·        Condition 2 – Approved Plans

·        Condition 6 – Method Statement for Demolition

·        Condition 7 – Surface Water Drainage (approved details)

·        Condition 16 – Hedges and Hedgerows

·        Condition 21 – Off site highway works

·        Condition 23 – Archaeological Evaluation

The site was located off Hall Drive at the southern end of St David’s Way, just outside of the Acklam Conservation area boundary. To the north was Cowley Road and Adcott Road and to the west and south were Bewley Grove and Acklam Road. The Avenue of Trees provides the eastern boundary of the site and was within the Acklam Conservation area. The application site was within the vicinity of the Grade 1 Acklam Hall sited to the north across Hall Drive but does not form part of the i

immediate setting of this listed building.

The proposed changes include amendment to house types, and site layout (approved plans) and changes to the wording associated with the other conditions.

The scheme retains provision of 139 dwellings that will comprise of 2, 3 and 4 bedroomed properties. The house types would continue to be a mixture of terraced, semi-detached and detached dwellings and would include semi-detached and detached bungalows. The site layout of the proposed revised scheme retains an area of open space to the north of the site which would include a small trim trail and further retains a landscaped corridor running east / west across the site which provides a footpath/cycle path link between St David’s Way/Hall Drive

and Acklam Road. The scheme does not make any alterations which affects the surrounding area’s unduly and was considered to be in line with the basis on which the previous application was granted permission.

Members were advised that highway improvement works would continue to be undertaken to bring St David’s Way up to adoptable standards. The works included visitor parking bays, a pedestrian cycle path, removal of the plateaux table at the  ...  view the full minutes text for item 24/44

The Development Control Manager submitted details of planning applications which had been approved to date in accordance with the delegated authority granted to him at Minute 187 (29 September 1992).

A Member raised concerns regarding the number of certificates being issued for Houses of Multiple Occupation (HMOs).  The Development Control Manager advised that the Council had brought in Article 4 on 8 February 2025, this had been advertised on the Council for 12 months prior to it coming into effect.  It was advised that HMO’s had to provide evidence of being an operational HMO, converted into a HMO and occupied during the 12 months to obtain a certificate of lawfulness this accounted to the increase in certificates.

NOTED

7 and 9 Nuneaton

25 Grange Crescent

137 Southfield Road

132 Oxford Road

4 The Crescent

69 Saxonfield

1 Westwood Avenue

1 Marton Avenue

56 Barker Road

8 Glenfield

The Development Control Manager provided an update to Members on various planning appeals.

NOTED

A Member queried applications for Houses of Multiple Occupation (HMO) being approved by Middlesbrough Development Corporation (MDC) it was advised by the Development Control Manager that if the application fell within the MDC area then the planning decisions would be taken by MDC and not Middlesbrough Council Planning Department.