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Members considered a general regulations application, submitted by City of York Council, for the variation of conditions attached to the outline planning permission relating to the redevelopment of the Council Depot and adjoining land at Foss Islands Road for a retail scheme (Ref: 06/00338/GRG3).

The case officer gave an update on the application, which clarified the site history, described the differences between the approved scheme for the site and this application, and proposed the following amendments and additions to conditions:

·  To condition 14, to the third sentence to read, “This scheme shall be implemented within a period of six months of the completion of phase one of the development, apart from where such implementation would prevent the reasonable access to operating businesses on phase 2 of the development, and for which a variation of the requirement for implementation has been agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority”;

·  To conditions 15, 16, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 59 and 60, to make reference to the phased implementation of the development;

·  To add a condition requiring the landscaping scheme for the green corridor  to be implemented and all cycle and pedestrian routes to be available for use prior to the first use of phase 1 of the development;

·  To add a condition requiring, prior to the commencement of phase 1 of the development, the submission and approval of details of any temporary arrangements which may be required for the provision of the cycle and pedestrian route across the access to the operating premises in phase 2 of the development.

Representations were received from York Natural Environment Trust in objection to the application and from the applicant’s agent in support of the application.

Some Members reiterated their concerns regarding the extent of the green corridor proposed for the site.  Officers advised that no changes to the green corridor were sought in this application.  Members noted that, since the consideration of the earlier applications for this site, policies relating to green corridors had been strengthened in the Development Control Local Plan and queried whether these could now be applied to this application.  Councillor Merrett proposed and Councillor Simpson-Laing seconded a motion to defer the application for provision of advice as to whether it could be assessed against these strengthened policies and also for the provision of the full wording for the amended conditions.  On being put to the vote, this motion was lost. 

Members proposed the addition of a condition requiring a management plan for landscaping and ecology, in perpetuity, and an informative requesting the developer to liaise with the York Natural Environment Trust (YNET) regarding the detailed landscaping plans, with the Council’s Landscaping Officer co-ordinating the discussions.  It was also noted that informative 2 in the report related to the previously approved outline application and was therefore no longer relevant and could be deleted.

Members requested that condition 23, relating to the  ...  view the full minutes text for item 13