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Re: C4/20/00868/OA-Planning application for alterations to entrance gates and fencing, including widening of access road and installation of 1 no. lighting column 3.6 metres and 1 no. CCTV column on land at Caedmon College Whitby, Prospect Hill, Whit

Decision Maker: Chief Executive Officer

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Decision:

The Chief Executive Officer has taken all relevant information into account in exercising his emergency delegated powers in this matter include considering the views of the Planning and Regulatory Functions Committee held on 20 July 2021 and agreed the following:-

that the application be approved for the reasons stated below and in accordance with the conditions outlined in the report, subject to the following amendments:-

Condition 2 being amended as referred to in the report to reflect revision C and not B of the Design and Access Statement.

By whom: Richard Flinton, Chief Executive Officer, under emergency delegated powers and after consultation with the Planning and Regulatory Functions Committee.

PLEASE NOTE that as a non-executive function, this decision is not open to call in.

Reasons for the decision:

Under his delegated decision making powers in the Officers’ Delegation Scheme in the Council’s Constitution, the Chief Executive Officer has power, in cases of emergency, to take any decision which could be taken by the Council, the Executive or a committee.

Following on from the expiry of the Local Authorities and Police and Crime Panels (Coronavirus) (Flexibility of Local Authority and Police and Crime Panel Meetings) (England and Wales) Regulations 2020 (“the 2020 Regulations”), which allowed for committee meetings to be held remotely, the County Council resolved at its meeting on 5 May 2021 that, for the present time, in light of the continuing Covid-19 pandemic circumstances, remote live-broadcast committee meetings should continue, with any formal decisions required being taken by the Chief Executive Officer under his emergency decision making powers and after consultation with other Officers and Members as appropriate and after taking into account any views of the relevant Committee Members.

The Chief Executive Officer has taken all relevant information into account in exercising his emergency delegated powers in this matter, including:-
• considering the views of the Planning and Regulatory Functions Committee held on 20 July 2021.
• There are no material changes as a result of the revised NPPF dated 20 July 2021

The reasons for the decision in this matter are as follows:
• The principle of the proposal improves the amenity of the college and improves safety and safeguarding features at the school which have been highlighted by Ofsted as an area in which the college needs to improve on;
• The proposed development would have a negligible impact upon the amenity of any
local residents, visual or otherwise;
• The proposed development would have a negligible impact on the local highway
area;
• The proposed development is in-compliance with the principles of the NPPF, the
PPG and with Policy SD1, DEC 1, DEC 4, HC8, HC10, ENV 5 and INF 3 of the
Scarborough Borough Local Plan (2017)

Subject to Condition 2 being amended as referred to in the to reflect revision C and not B of the Design and Access Statement

Alternative options considered:

N/A.

Publication date: 29/07/2021

Date of decision: 28/07/2021