Falklands : Falklands Planning and Building Committee Report (13/04/09)
Submitted by Falkland Islands News Network (Juanita Brock) 13.04.2009 (Article Archived on 27.04.2009)

Graham France tells us what happened during this important Committee meeting.

PLANNING & BUILDING COMMITTEE

HELD ON 9^th APRIL  2009

(By Graham France)

This meeting of the Planning and Building Committee, held on April 9^th, was to be even shorter than last month’s and lasted exactly one hour, during which seven applications seeking planning permission were considered and thirty submissions for a building permit were reported upon.

Four of the planning applications were for permission in principle, of which three received outline consent although the third (on land west of 1 Jersey Road) has to be referred to Executive Council as it would be a departure from the Stanley Town Plan.

Details of those three (all for single dwellings) are as follows: on land at the rear of 4A Ross Road West for Nicholas Bonner; on land at the rear of 5 Hebe Street for Lisa Jaffray; and on land west of 1 Jersey Road for Dustin and Toni Gilson-Clarke.

The outline application which was refused planning permission was submitted by Fortuna Limited and proposed a building of four flats/bed-sits on land at the rear of 56 John Street.  This proposal attracted four letters of objection and members of the committee were in agreement that too much development was proposed for the site and that the proposed parking arrangements were not entirely satisfactory.

A proposal that had at an earlier meeting received outline consent, and now was the subject of a detailed plans submission, was for a dwelling for Wayne Clasen and Donna May on land north of 17 Davis Street, and the committee were pleased to grant conditional planning permission for the development to proceed.

Paz Blyth’s application for planning permission to site a mobile coach tea room at 4A Jeremy Moore Avenue was deferred.  Members were not in favour of this in a residential area and the applicant is to be asked if it was possible for the siting to be arranged at the Falkland Islands Defence Force’s storage area.

The final application for planning permission considered at this meeting was for the erection of a front porch / conservatory for Neil McKay at 52 Davis Street and members were pleased to grant consent subject to the standard condition.

The committee took note that of the thirty applications for building permits, no less than twenty-one awaited further information whilst two had not yet been checked and seven had been approved with the permits issued.

The next meeting of this committee is now scheduled to be held on Thursday 7^th May in the Liberation Room, commencing at 8.30am.

Graham France                                                                                  11^th April 2009

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