Issue - meetings

The Committee considered the report of the Chief Planning Officer recommending that the above application for the erection of 2 apartment buildings to provide 106 affordable independent living apartments with ancillary support services and communal facilities, together with associated landscaping, amenity space and car parking, following the demolition of the existing buildingsbe granted subject to the conditions and for the reasons stated or referred to in the report.

Arising from the discussion members referred to possible future safety issues around the existing pond on the site. The Chief Planning Officer commented that condition No. 30 in the report submitted required the applicant to submit details of various landscaping works and safety issues around the pond could be added to that condition.

RESOLVED:

That the recommendation be approved and the application be granted subject to the conditions and for the reasons stated or referred to in the report and subject to the signing of a Section 106 legal agreement to secure affordable housing and a financial contribution to mitigate recreation pressure on the Sefton Coast and to the amendment of Condition No. 30 to include details of safety measures around the existing pond on site.