Falklands : Planning and Building Committee Report (01 April 2010)
Submitted by Falkland Islands News Network (Juanita Brock) 10.04.2010 (Article Archived on 24.04.2010)
This month’s meeting of the Planning and Building Committee began with words of welcome to new lay member Jacky Cotter from the Chair, Cllr Sharon Halford.
PLANNNING & BUILDING COMMITTEE
HELD 1st APRIL 2010
This month’s meeting of the Planning and Building Committee began with words of welcome to new lay member Jacky Cotter from the Chair, Cllr Sharon Halford.
Of ten applications seeking planning permission to be considered, just one was refused: that for a one-and-a-half-storey dwelling on land at the rear of 10 Barrack Street for columnist Graham Bound. Reasons for refusal included impracticable off-street parking arrangements, inappropriate design of the dwelling, and its design and proximity to the adjacent listed building (the Tabernacle Church).
Applications which did receive consent were the erection of a permanent granite memorial for HMS Glamorgan Falklands Association Memorial Committee to be sited at Hookers Point; permission in principle for a dwelling to the rear of 67 Fitzroy Road (fronting Davis Street) for Megan Middleton; a change of use of the Old Telephone Exchange on Ross Road from a drop-in centre to a studio/gallery for Julie Halliday; removal of a garage and its replacement with a Nissen hut at 88 Davis Street for Carol and David Thorsen; an extension to the Malvina House Hotel on Ross Road which will include a new kitchen and ancillary facilities, a meeting room and improved toilet facilities submitted for Stanley Services Limited; the erection of a bungalow for Neil McKay on land to the rear of 52 Davis Street having frontage to Callaghan Road; a bungalow for Nicholas and Tara Francis at 28 Hansen Hill; and a bungalow at 19 Brandon Road for Keith and Marilyn Grimmer.
A proposal to change the windows of a listed building at 12 Drury Street for Shirley Hirtle had to be deferred due to the unavailability of sufficient members of the Historic Buildings Committee.
Then followed two detailed reports prepared by the Environmental Planning Officer (EPO), Antony Payne. The first dealt with the use of delegated powers for determining planning applications and set out proposed procedures to achieve this aim. In June 2007 Executive Council (ExCo) agreed to grant the EPO delegated powers to determine certain applications without referral to the Planning and Building Committee and requested the Attorney General to prepare draft legislation to this effect for the approval of the Committee and ExCo. Changes of the EPO had, with other matters, precluded further work on this which, he explained, will help speed up decision-making on non-contentious applications and reduce the overall work of the Committee.
It was agreed to authorise the AG to prepare the required legislation based on the procedures set out in the report with the provision in the necessary regulations that, in the event of an extended absence of the EPO, the application be automatically referred to the next meeting of the Committee unless the EPO has delegated power to another officer to deal with applications of a certain type which he is confident that officer is competent to handle.
The other detailed report concerned the erection of a dwelling on land to the rear of 27 Fitzroy Road. A request to amend the planning consent issued for this development had been received and which involved a change to the form of access to the property. This, the Committee agreed to, subject to the receipt of proof of a legal right to use a track for access that had been claimed by the applicant.
The Open section of the meeting concluded with a review of applications for a building permit which the Building Adviser, Nick Stephens, reported upon, providing an update on five of the twenty-one listed.
The next meeting of the Committee is scheduled for 6 May commencing at 8.30am to be held in the Liberation Room.
Graham France. 4th April 2010
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