Issue - meetings

PROPOSAL:  demolition of former golf club buildings and construction of a single and two-storey building for a banqueting facility; widening of existing vehicular access from Brockley Hill, car and cycle parking, waste/recycling storage, landscape enhancement and associated works.

Councillor Marilyn Ashton proposed that the application be determined and not deferred.

The proposal was seconded by Councillor Anjana Patel, put to the vote and lost.

The Committee resolved to accept officer Recommendation 1 (below) to defer the application.

Councillor Philip Benjamin expressed his concern that the item had been deferred, which set an unfortunate precedent.

RECOMMENDATION

The Planning Committee was asked to:

1.              allow an extension of time to the end of September 2021 for the receipt of new information in relation to the decision to defer the application at Planning Committee on 30 June 2021, in order for the application to be heard at the 17 November 2021 Planning Committee meeting.

DECISION:  DEFER

The Committee wished it to be recorded that the decision to defer the application was by majority of votes.

Councillors Brown, Fitzpatrick and Henson voted to defer the application.

Councillor Ashton, Baxter and Patel voted against deferring the application.

Councillor Fitzpatrick, as Chair, cast the final vote, and the application was deferred.