Agenda item

Former Middlewood Tavern, 316 Middlewood Road

Minutes:

16.1

The Committee received an update provided in the supplementary report circulated at the meeting regarding the enforcement matters in connection with Middlewood Tavern, 316 Middlewood Road North.  The update referred to an officer meeting with the landowner on 1 March 2019 at which the owner gave an undertaking, by 29 March 2019, to repair a mesh screen to the existing Herris fencing along the front of the land to screen building materials on the site, to paint the windows of the building black and to remove redundant signage and associated fixtures and fittings.  It was explained, that whilst planning consent to convert the building would expire on 20 July 2019, the owner had indicated that works to tidy up the site would commence on 12 or 13 March 2019 and the site would be the next development he would be undertaking.

 

 

16.2

In view of the enforcement issues at the site, enforcement officers would monitor the situation over the next few weeks and months and that further action would be considered if the interim works and planning permission were not implemented.

 

 

16.3

RESOLVED:  That the information now reported be noted.

 

 

 

(NOTE: In accordance with Section 100B(4)(b) of the Local Government Act 1972, as amended by the Local Government (Access to Information) Act 1985, the Chair of the Committee (Councillor Dianne Hurst) decided that the above item should be considered as an urgent item of business as it was considered in view of the timescales there was a need to inform Members of the update on the this matter and the fact that it had not been possible to give Members five clear days’ notice of the item of business).