Officer Update Note
Selby and Ainsty Area Planning Committee – 12th March 2025
Item 4: 2023/0091/FUL
Supplementary Planning Statement
On behalf of the applicants, a late statement has been submitted to the LPA. The main points of the letter are:
Amenity
- The application is for operational development and not a material change of use. The movements are limited scale and impact such that it does not constitute a material change of use requiring planning permission.
- Given the site context being a highway, bus route and close to a school, noise and parking are a normal feature of this stretch of the road.
- Vehicular visits to the application site are few in number, of short duration and confined to normal daytime periods and closed two days per week.
- The officer report has misinterpreted the data provided by the applicant and has exaggerated the number of visits, stating that 14 per day is typical, when this is evidently not the case.
- The applicant contests the complainant’s allegations of comings and goings as “constant”, and the applicant has provided evidence to refute this.
- Movement levels of future activity are speculative.
- Five neighbouring households on Low Street have expressed support.
Flood Impacts
- The charity’s operation would not be feasible or viable in alternative premises, irrespective of the area of search.
- The Jolly Sailor Yard enables the activities at the application site to be minimised. It should not, however, be supposed that the two sites are interchangeable, or that Sailor Yard would be a suitable alternative base for the operation.
Third Party Comments
One additional letter has been received from a neighbouring objector. They have recorded the movements over a two day period. The neighbour recorded movements that are greater than the movements discussed in the officer report. Their recorded movements are:
- There were 16 vehicles on each day, at least 5 volunteers/employees present each day and the number of people outside unloading was 22 and 29 on each day.