Agenda item

18/00694/FUL – Erection of a 1,900sqm (GIA) supermarket (A1 use), 1,900 sqm (GIA) retail store (A1 use) and a 167sqm (GIA) and drive-thru unit (A1/A3 use) with associated parking for 263 cars, ancillary service and delivery areas, landscaping and new access (amended Planning Policy Statement and Retail Policy Statement received 29 November 2018, additional Sequential Test document received 5 February 2019; additional Employment Land Viability Report received 30 April 2019;; amended plans received 31 May 2019; drainage information received 29 August 2019; additional Retail Impact Assessment received 26 September 2019 and Retail Assessment information received 14 May 2020 ; amended drainage information received 28 May 2020 and 8th July 2020).

(In consideration of this item, the Committee took into consideration the Planning Officer’s report (previously circulated), seventeen letters of objection, the objections of Darlington Friends of the Earth and the Campaign to Protect Rural England, the objections of Bussey and Armstrong and Estill Cooper, letters of objection submitted on behalf of Hillesden Trust, and letters of objection from the Cooperative Group. The Committee also took into consideration eighty-five letters of support and heard that an additional forty-one letters of support had been received subsequent to the issue of the Agenda and Papers for this meeting. The Committee also heard the Ward Councillor, and the responses to questions asked by Members of the Applicant’s Agent in attendance at the meeting.)

RESOLVED – Subject to conditions being submitted to, and agreed, by this Committee, and reasoning being outlined, Members of the Planning Applications Committee are minded to grant Planning Permission.