Decision details

65895: Retrospective application for the installation of solar panels. Commerical House, 11 The Strand, Barnstaple, Devon. EX31 1EU.

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Decisions:

The Committee considered a report by the Head of Place (circulated previously – now appended).

 

Mr Mike Matthews (applicant) addressed the Committee.

 

Councillor R. Mack (Ward Member) addressed the Committee.

 

In response to a question, the Senior Planning Officer (MB) confirmed that such development was not permitted by Class J of Part 14 of the General Permitted Development Order 2015 as amended; in the case of a building in a Conservation Area where the solar PV equipment would be installed on a wall or roof slope which fronts a highway. There was also a planning appeal decision from elsewhere in Barnstaple Town Centre supporting this view. The current planning application was therefore considered necessary.

 

RESOLVED (unanimous) that the application be APPROVED as the procedures and planning polices had been adopted prior to the Devon Climate Declaration being adopted and therefore the Council needed to be more progressive.

 

Publication date: 20/08/2019

Date of decision: 14/08/2019

Decided at meeting: 14/08/2019 - Planning Committee

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