Planning Application – Waterloo Tavern

The Planning committee on the 3rd of April will consider the application and objections to the application to convert  The Waterloo Tavern on Queen Street Waterloo into 15 self-contained flats, including the erection of a rear extension, alterations to and raising the roof height, alterations to the elevations, layout of car parking spaces to the rear and landscaping.

 The application is recommended for approval by the Sefton MBC planning team. There are a number of written objections and a petition endorsed by Cllr Paul Cummins.

Although this is not within the Victoria ward, I thought this nearby item might be of interest.

PLANNING MEETING AGENDA REPORTS  report number S/2013/0066

Plan

The Waterloo Tavern from York Road. Application to convert to 15 flats

Church Road Development

Enquiries about this development today. It was approved by the planning committee in August. I recorded my dissatisfaction with the inclusion of the terrace adjoining Church Rd.
Meeting Agenda CLICK HERE

88 houses to be built on Church Rd, Site of old Hugh Baird college.
Entrance will be on Spencer Avenue

Planning committee

Vernons Building Aintree 1956

As a member of the planning committee a councillor has a real chance to leave at least small mark  for posterity. We made a planning visit to a future development on the Old Roan derelict Vernons(Paradox) site. At that visit Cllr Denise Dutton and myself pointed out the local significance of the Vernon’s Clock faces and asked if they could be rescued and incorporated into the new development as a sculpture. Molyneux councillor Tony Carr quoted in the Liverpool Echo  said he “hoped some of the site’s history could be retained”

Councils need more time to form local plans: National Trust

Ministers should extend the deadline for local authorities to formulate local development plans because more than half have still not completed them, leading conservation body the National Trust has demanded.

Peter Nixon, director of conservation at the National Trust said: “Councils need more time to get their local plans in place to protect land from unwanted development and ensure communities get the developments they need, in the right places. Only in this way can development be genuinely sustainable”

National Trust on this CLICK HERE

Land behind Oriel Drive in the Old Roan, Class 1 agricultural land left to to degrade (not fallow) by a developer as a land bank.

 

Planning meeting

Cabbage Inn, Litherland

I attended a Planning brief from senior officers this evening Wednesday about Planning enforcement.

Ther presentation included photographs of transgressions of the planning legislation and included some stunning examples which including a the illegal demolition of a 400 year old Limestone historical boundary wall for a Car park, thankfully now re-instated and a two-storey wooden “Wendy House” with balconies  in a back garden.

I also attended the full planning meeting where we heard among others An application for what was The Cabbage Inn and also  for a replacement for the “Blockbuster Store” on Sefton Road Lincare, the latter was refused the former deferred awaiting reports.

Tree Planting in Victoria Ward

Brompton Avenue, Crosby

A number of trees are to be planted in the ward in Dorbett Drive and Brompton Avenue.

These are being funded by section 106 money. When developers seek planning permission to develop a particular area in any ward they are ofetn asked, as a concession to provide funds to help improve the local environment. This is a a stipulation under Section 106 of the Planning Regulations.

Dortbett Drive, Crosby

Definition of the term “Fallow land”

I am concerned that planners and developers are misusing the term “Fallow” in order to describe the state of land.  I am concerned that developers have purchased high quality argricultural land in Sefton and then left the areas  derelict for many years thereby, seemimingly,  hoping to deteriorate it’s efficacy as agricultural land. All undertaken under the badge of Fallow land.

A number of councillors on the planning committee have asked for a fresh and clear definition.

The O.E.D. Defines “Fallow” thus

Definition of fallow

adjective

• 1(of farmland) ploughed and harrowed but left for a period without being sown in order to restore its fertility or to avoid surplus production:incentives for farmers to let land lie fallow

My Committees

At the AGM/2 tonight I was given a seat on both the Licensing and Planning commitees for Sefton MBC.

Southport town hall Sefton MBC council Chamber