Agenda and minutes

Councillor Vines declared he was a member of Tewkesbury Borough Council

To answer any written public questions about matters which are within the powers and duties of the Committee.

The closing date/time for the receipt of questions is 10am on Thursday 19th January 2023.

The Committee noted the public questions and responses were available to view on  the GCC website and a copy had been circulated to members of the Committee by email prior to the meeting.

To answer any written members’ questions about matters which are within the powers and duties of the Committee.

The closing date/time for the receipt of questions is 10.00am on Thursday 19th January 2023.

No member questions had been received. 

The Committee is asked to approve the minutes of the meeting held on the 7th July 2022. 

Resolved

That the minutes of the previous meeting held on the 7th July 2022 were approved as a correct record.

To receive the notes of the Members Site Visit held on 10th November 2022.

The Committee received the Member Site Visit notes.

The Committee is asked to consider the

A summary of the application was presented by Marcus Sparrow, Senior Planning Officer aided by a PowerPoint presentation. 

This planning application by M C Cullimore (Gravels) Ltd, reference number 19/0081/TWMAJM was for a proposed new vehicular access off the A38, plus haul road, weighbridge/office, processing plant and equipment (including concrete batching plant), creation of clean water ponds, silt ponds, stock piles and other works and ancillary development associated with the extraction of sand and gravel and import of inert materials with restoration using site derived material to wetlands, nature conservation and agriculture.  The Committee were advised that it was a cross-boundary application with Worcestershire.

In terms of background information, the committee noted the following key points:

•       Whilst application 19/0081/TWMAJM related to a cross-boundary development with Worcestershire, the agenda report and committee presentation for application 19/0081/TWMAJM focused on the proposed development within Gloucestershire.

•      The proposed development in Worcestershire had already been considered and approved by Worcestershire County Council (WCC) on the 31^st October 2022.

•      Planning condition 11 of approved WCC application 19/000048/CM stated: “No development shall commence until planning permission has been obtained for access to and from the site via the haul road and access onto A38 as shown on approved drawing numbered: 2636-4-4-2-1-DR-0002-S4-P9, titled: ‘Initial Works and Phase 1 Extraction’.”

The applicant had submitted a Section 38 application under the Common Land Act 2006 to seek prior approval from the government’s Planning Inspectorate to undertake restricted works on Common Land within Gloucestershire. It was reported that the Section 38 application was still under active consideration by the Planning Inspectorate.

The application site was within the borough of Tewkesbury and the parish of Twyning. The Bow Farm application site covered an area of approximately 65 hectares. The site straddled the administrative boundaries of both Gloucestershire (9.1 hectares) and Worcestershire (55.9 hectares) and the site was in the sole ownership of Moreton C Cullimore (Gravels) Ltd.

The case officer explained that the Site was located about 1.3 kilometres west of junction 1 of the M50 Motorway and about 3.6 kilometres south-west of junction 8 of the M5 Motorway. This was depicted on a map and the village of Twyning was located approximately 895 metres north-east of the application site red line boundary (about 1.7 kilometres north-east of the extraction area); the village of Ripple was situated about 550 metres north of the proposal on the northern side of the M50 Motorway; the village of Church End was located approximately 310 metres east of the application site red line boundary (about 1.2 kilometres east of the extraction area); and the town of Tewkesbury was located approximately 3.1 kilometres south-east of the site.

Members were advised that the Site was currently in agricultural use and comprised of several field parcels that were separated by internal boundaries that lay in the open countryside of south Worcestershire, within Malvern Hills District, and north Gloucestershire, within Tewkesbury Borough. The neighbouring land uses were dominated by agricultural activities such as the large greenhouses  ...  view the full minutes text for item 6.

The Committee is asked to note the report. 

Resolved

That the delegated decisions report be noted.

The Assistant Director of Planning & Economic Development advised the Committee that Kevin Phillips and Gary Kennison would be retiring in March.   He thanked them for their long service to the Authority and wished them well for the future. 

The Chairman wished to convey his thanks on behalf of members both past and present.  Councillor Brown thanked both officers for their efforts and added that the detail they had provided had been exemplary over the years.