Issue - meetings

[To determine the application]

The Committee received a report regarding application 15/01422/FUL, apartment development (20 flats). The report had been brought back to Committee after Committee resolved on 5 February to grant or refuse depending on the response from the Department of Transport.

Phillip Walker, Planning Officer reported that four extra objections had been received relating to access. 

During the ensuing discussion it was questioned why the access and egress to the site was not from Cranmore Road. Members of the Committee also commented that the junction at Paget Road and Tettenhall Road was a busy, hazardous road system and was close to the proposed access point. It was also felt that the proposal could lead to accidents on the highway by the site; that the Police would not be able monitor the junction in the way the Council might like; and that there were better access and egress options to the one presented.

In response the Planning Officer reported that he had spoken to the applicant who felt that access from Cranmore Road would not be appropriate for their plans. The Planning Authority was happy to accept the views of Transportation on this point.

Tim Philpot, Lead Transport Officer also reported that there were no recorded casualties attributable to access to the Halfway House going back to 1999.  He therefore did not consider the proposed access was a safety problem.

Another member of the Committee commented that the junction was as hazardous when the site was used as a public house as it would be with any other development on the site. In the light of the Lead Transport Officer’s update that there were no accidents in recent times at the junction, and the advice from the Department for Transport, she could not see any planning grounds upon which the application could be refused.

Resolved:

          That the application be refused on transport and highways grounds.