Falklands : Planning and Building Committee Reports (080207)
Submitted by Falkland Islands News Network (Juanita Brock) 11.02.2008 (Article Archived on 25.02.2008)
Graham France updates us on what happened at this important Committee meeting.
PLANNING & BUILDING COMMITTEE
HELD 7th FEBRUARY 2008
(By Graham France)
Chaired by Councillor John Birmingham, this month’s meeting saw the presence of new Environmental Planning Department staff members Tom Eggeling (Environmental Planning Officer) and Nick Stephens (Building Adviser), with all members of the Committee attending.
This was to be one of the shortest meetings of that body with only six new applications for planning permission to be considered. Before these were examined one application, which was deferred at the meeting held in January to await further information on necessary infrastructure, phasing, density, access etc., was reviewed. This was an outline application submitted by the Falkland Islands Company for housing development on land west of houses on Dairy Paddock Road, east and south of Sapper Hill Road, north of the Stanley Bypass, and south of the houses on Brandon Road.
Members considered a report on the application which concluded there appeared to be no insurmountable difficulty in developing the land for housing, and accepted the recommendation that it be approved in principle subject to conditions, one of which required that the number of dwellings to be erected on the site shall not exceed 350 in total.
The committee then granted detailed planning permission, subject to conditions, for the following development proposals: a dwelling at Plot 2 Mink Park, Moody Brook Road for Robert and Fiona Nannig; the siting of an ISO container for storage at the Moody Brook Aquaculture Project Site for FIDC Aquaculture; the erection of a twenty-five-metre-high communication mast for Cable & Wireless at Sapper Hill; and, as reported in last week’s issue of the Penguin News, the change of use to residential of the Upland Goose Hotel on Ross Road for the Falkland Islands Company.
Also granted planning permission was an extension to their house at 4 Fitzroy Road East for Richard and Sarah Davies. It was reported that two letters of objection from neighbours had been received but members felt that the proposal, which was designed to be sympathetic to the existing structure, could be approved. Two members of the Historic Buildings Committee were in attendance and were able to agree that necessary alterations which had been requested had now been incorporated in the final plans.
The sixth new application was for permission in principle to erect a dwelling on land south-east of 9 Snake Hill for Geoff and Wanda Greenough. A near-similar application was refused consent at the December meeting of the committee, but the new scheme answered the objections and members agreed to grant conditional outline planning permission.
Making his final appearance at this committee, Ken Snape, the former Building Adviser, then reported on thirteen applications which had been submitted for a building permit. One had been withdrawn and four issued, with further information awaited on the remainder. He then, with comment from Nick Stephens, gave a progress report on proposals to enhance the service offered to Government and the local community on a number of matters concerned with the Building Regulations. These included the intended issue of Interim and Full Occupancy Certificates, guarding of windows, and the enforcement framework/procedure. The latter, he advised, was ready for further discussion.
As this was to be the last meeting he would be attending, Ken Snape was thanked by Councillor John Birmingham for his hard work and enthusiasm during his time in office.
The next meeting is scheduled to be held on Thursday 6th March, commencing at 8.30am in the Liberation Room.
Graham France 8th February 2008
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