Agenda item

Application No. P2018/0493 - Afan Valley Adventure Resort

Update to Committee.

Minutes:

Officers made a presentation to the Planning Committee on this updated Application, as detailed in the circulated report. Members noted that the Application before Committee today sought an updated resolution on Application No. P2018/0493 (Afan Valley Adventure Resort), which was previously agreed by Committee on 19 March 2019.

 

RESOLVED:

 

1. That planning permission be GRANTED for the development subject to the conditions detailed below, and subject to signing of a legal agreement under Section 106 based on the following broad Heads of Terms:

 

•   Inclusion of a Legal Framework to address provision of Solar farm site and another off-site compensation site/s and associated Habitat Management Plans in accordance with a sequential approach

 

•   Contribution towards / provision of access to and improvements to National Cycle Network Route 885

 

•   Implementation (as far as practicable having regard to site works) of advanced structural landscaping.

 

2. That if the required section 106 agreement is not completed by 31 March 2020, that delegated authority be given to refuse planning permission on the basis that in the absence of the required legal agreement, the identified environmental impacts of the development, notably on biodiversity / habitat, would not be mitigated, precise reasons to be agreed in consultation with the Chair of Planning.

 

3. That delegated authority be given to the Head of Planning and Public Protection and the Development Manager – Planning, to make changes to the conditions and/or Heads of Terms of the required legal agreement, subject to consultation with the Chair of Planning, up to the point where the legal agreement is signed and outline consent issued.

 

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