PLANNING COMMITTEE AGENDA - Hartlepool Borough Council

Planning Committee – 18 July 2012 4.1
HBC Community Services – No objections received.
HBC Ecologist – No objections. Landscaping details submitted to discharge
conditions are insufficient. Condition 8 therefore remains to be discharged.
HBC Engineering Consultancy – Comments awaited.
HBC Parks and Countryside – No objections received.
HBC Property Services – No objections received.
HBC Public Protection – Comments awaited.
HBC Traffic and Transportation – No highway or traffic concerns.
Environment Agency – No objections.
Natural England – No objections. The LPA should consider potential impacts on
Protected Species, Local Wildlife Sites, Bio-diversity enhancements.
Network Rail – No objection to the extension of time. Concerns with respect of
condition 7 in relation to the boundary treatment. The existing steel/palisade fence
has suffered damage which has not been rectified by the applicant. Request that
condition 7 not removed or the applicant is required to address the fencing damage.
Northumbrian Water – No objections.
Planning Policy
2.10 The following policies in the adopted Hartlepool Local Plan 2006 are relevant to
the determination of this application:
GEP1: States that in determining planning applications the Borough Council will
have due regard to the provisions of the Development Plan. Development should be
located on previously developed land within the limits to development and outside
the green wedges. The policy also highlights the wide range of matters which will
be taken into account including appearance and relationship with surroundings,
effects on amenity, highway safety, car parking, infrastructure, flood risk, trees,
landscape features, wildlife and habitats, the historic environment, and the need for
high standards of design and landscaping and native species.
GEP2: States that provision will be required to enable access for all (in particular for
people with disabilities, the elderly and people with children) in new developments
where there is public access, places of employment, public transport and car parking
schemes and where practical in alterarations to existing developments.
GEP3: States that in considering applications, regard will be given to the need for the
design and layout to incorporate measures to reduce crime and the fear of crime.
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