Agenda and minutes

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In accordance with the Code of Conduct adopted by the City and County of Swansea, the following interest was declared:

Councillor C Anderson - Personal – Planning Application 2020/0059/FUL – applicant is known to me.

To approve & sign the Minutes of the previous meeting(s) as a correct record.

Resolved that the Minutes of the Planning Committee held on 3 November 2020 be approved and signed as correct record.

None.

The Head of Planning and City Regeneration presented a report which sought consideration of the confirmation, as a full Order, of the provisional Tree Preservation Order 671, Land adjacent to: 42 Llwyn Close, Sketty, Swansea (2020).

The background details to the matter were outlined.

Report updated as follows:

Late comments and photographs from an objector had been submitted along with a request from the objector for Committee to defer the application as he was unable to attend the meeting to make representations in person.  (Note: The comments/photos referred to above were circulated to Members of the Committee and published on the Council’s website prior to the meeting)

Resolved that report be deferred to the next scheduled meeting of the committee in order to give the objector an opportunity to attend.

A planning application was presented on behalf of the Head of Planning & City Regeneration.

Amendments/updates to this schedule were reported and are indicated below by (#)

(Note: Updates to the report referred to below were circulated to Members of the Committee and published on the Council’s website prior to the meeting)

1) the undermentioned planning application Be Approved subject to a S106 agreement and the conditions outlined in the report.

#(Item 1) – Planning Application 2020/0059/FUL - Redevelopment of site  to provide 21 no. self contained flats in one 4 storey block with associated works at 2-3 Tontine Street, Swansea

A visual presentation was given.

Report updated as follows:

Addition to Report at page 55

Affordable Housing

Proposals that included residential development on sites within settlement limits with capacity for 5 or more dwellings should ordinarily provide for affordable housing on site in accordance with the requirements of Policy H 3.

The application site is within the Central Area and that requirement would extend to 20%. Notwithstanding this normal policy requirement, the plan, at paragraph 2.4.17, specifically sets out that ‘proposals for the conversion, demolition or change of use of commercial property will be exempt from the policy’. On this basis, the provision of affordable housing at the site is not a policy requirement.

The Head of Planning and City Regeneration presented a “for information” report which informed Members of the Committee that the first Annual Monitoring Report (AMR) of the Swansea Local Development Plan (LDP) had been published on the Council’s website, and provided a brief summary of the main findings and outlined that all the targets laid down are being achieved.