Agenda item

6g.1

A deleted condition and additional representations, along with the Officer response, were included within the Supplementary Report circulated and summarised at the meeting.

6g.2

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

6g.3

Ms Leonie Wood (Loxley Valley Protection Society) and Ms Lynette Jackson attended the meeting and spoke against the application.

6g.4

Mr. David Sweeting (agent for the applicant) attended the meeting and spoke in support of the application.

6g.5

The Committee considered the report and proposed conditions, having regard to the development plan, the National Planning Policy Framework and other relevant considerations as summarised in the report and supplementary report, now submitted, and also having regard to representations made during the meeting.

6g.6

RESOLVED: That (1) the heads of terms of the legal agreement be reconsidered with the applicant, the Council’s Parks and countryside Department and Sport England to look at the possibility of requiring some or all of the contribution towards new/replacement sports facilities to be spent on facilities in the locality of Deer Park high rise flats; the final wording of such obligation(s) to be approved by the Co-Chairs of the Planning and Highways Committee, and;

(2) an application for planning permission be GRANTED, conditionally and subject to the legal agreement to secure a sum towards new/replacement sports facilities, as well as obligations relating to the re-use of the cricket ground, for the reasons set out in the report now submitted, for demolition of existing buildings and erection of a Class A1 retail foodstore including car parking, access, landscaping, ball stop netting and supporting structures and sportsfield parking facility (amended plans and description), at Tudor Gates, Unit 1, Parkers Yard, Stannington Road, Sheffield, S6 5FL (Case No. 18/02802/FUL).