Agenda

To receive and note apologies for absence.

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To approve and sign the minutes of the last Planning Committee B meeting held on 30 January 2025 [to follow] and 26 February 2025.

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This item invites Members to determine the following planning applications:

Change of use of offices (use class E) to 25no. bed purpose-built student accommodation, erection of a single storey extension to The Hive and associated external works. [Fulford and Heslington Ward]

Internal and external alterations to facilitate change of use of offices (use class E) to purpose-built student accommodation. [Fulford and Heslington Ward]

Single storey side extension, new pedestrian access gates and paving, alterations to hard and soft landscaping, and siting of PV solar array to main roof. [Fulford and Heslington Ward]

Erection of 2no. battery storage facilities, with 1no. facility of 40no. battery storage units within the existing Osbaldwick substation area and 1no. facility of 4no. battery storage units on land to the east of the sub-station, with ancillary structures and infrastructure, associated vehicle accesses, including new access track, and enclosed by 3 metre high palisade security fencing, 3.5 metre high acoustic barrier, and with 5.1 metre high lighting and CCTV columns. [Osbaldwick and Derwent Ward]

Any other business which the Chair considers urgent under the  Local Government Act 1972.

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