Agenda item

6b.1

Details of amended conditions, additional representations and an additional consultation response from the Environmental Protection Service (EPS) were included within the Supplementary Report circulated and summarised at the meeting.

6b.2

The Officer presented the report which gave details of the application and highlighted the history of the site and key issues set out in the report.

6b.3

Councillor Mazher Iqbal, Mr. Adam Oldridge, Dr Jonathan Willis and Mr. Brian Holmshaw attended the meeting and spoke against the application.  Photographs of the local area and the site viewed from Mr. Oldridge’s property and a further statement from a local resident were circulated to Members.

6b.4

Mr. Richard Fletcher attended the meeting and spoke in support of the application.

6b.5

The Committee considered the report and proposed conditions, including the amended conditions contained within the Supplementary Report, having regard to the development plan, the National Planning Policy Framework and other relevant considerations, as summarised in the report and also having regard to representations made and documents circulated during the meeting.

6b.6

RESOLVED: That:-

(1)  That an application for planning permission be GRANTED, conditionally, for the reasons set out in the report, now submitted, for change of use from storage and distribution (use class B8) to a waste treatment/transfer use (sui generis) and the erection of a refuse derived fuel (RDF) processing building, covered storage bays and weighbridge at Fletcher Plant Ltd, Clement Street, Sheffield, S9 5EA (Case No. 19/01580/FUL).

(2)  A letter be sent from the Committee to the Multi Agency Teams asking that they work together to resolve the issues experienced on the wider site.