Development Control Committee - 2 April 2025

Time: 10:00 am

Location: Boardroom, Murley Moss, Kendal, LA9 7RL.

The Committee will be livestreamed on YouTube apart from those agenda items which would infringe copyright or would not be dealt with in public for reasons of confidentiality.

Agenda

Business Part One
  1. Apologies - To receive and record apologies from members of the Committee who cannot attend.
  2. Minutes - To confirm the Minutes of the meeting held on 5 March 2025.
  3. Chairman's Announcements
    The Chairman to announce to all attendees -
    • the fire safety instructions;
    • the meeting is being livestreamed and a digital sound recording of the meeting is made; and
    • that mobile phones be switched off.
  4. Declarations of Interest - Members should declare any registrable interests or disclosable pecuniary interests and state the nature of those interests so it can be recorded in the minutes.  These interests are described in the Code of Conduct adopted by the Authority on 20 October 2021.
  5. There are no public questions, petitions or deputations of a general nature relating to the business of the Committee for this meeting.
  6. Site Inspections - The Head of Development Management to advise Committee of forthcoming planning applications where Members may wish to conduct a site inspection prior to making their decision in accordance with the Development Control Committee Site Visit Protocol.
  7. Planning Applications with Public Speaking - In accordance with the Policy for Public Attendance and Speaking at Committee Meetings, details of speakers who have given notice of their intention to make presentations to the Committee will be available at the meeting.  The schedule of planning applications will be re-ordered and these applications will be considered first.
  8. Schedule of Planning Applications - To consider planning applications as set out in the schedule.
  9. Delegated Planning Applications - To note the planning applications determined in accordance with the approved Scheme of Delegation.
  10. Delegated Compliance Matters - To note decisions taken on compliance in accordance with the approved Scheme of Delegation.
  11. Responses to Neighbouring Authorities (see agenda document).
  12. Appeals decided - To note the appeals decided.  The Planning Inspector's decision letters are appended.  The Head of Development Management will update Members on any matters of relevance in relation to the appeals (see agenda document).
  13. Tree Preservation Orders Made (see agenda document).

Papers

Access to Information - Local Government Act 1972 (As amended)

Agenda and Reports

Anyone can have a copy of the agenda and non-confidential reports before the meeting. Reports can be e-mailed as PDFs on request.

Background Papers

Physical copies of background papers will not be available for viewing at Murley Moss due to the current movement restrictions put in place by the Government following the Covid-19 outbreak. Papers can be e-mailed as PDFs on request. We cannot make background papers available for confidential papers.