24 October e-newsletter

24 October 2011 NPN Email Newsletter

24th October 2011

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Contents

1 NPN bi monthly meeting
2 Future Dates for Meetings with Planning Officers
3 Planning Online - BCC online planning application system
4 Site Allocations and Development Management Principles; Central Area Action Plan
5 Bristol Civic Society Planning Applications Group
6 Who's Who in Development Services

NPN bi monthly meeting

Meeting with Planning Officers
22 November
5.30 to 7.00 pm
Brunel House reception area

The agenda items are expected to be

Planning Appeals: including what happens when a planning committee goes against officer recommendation to approve an application

'Mixed and Balanced communities' how groups and planning officers can work towards ensuring development does not lead to an excess of eg one bed flats in a neighbourhood. Work has been done to map some of the types of development in Bristol to provide evidence for planning application responses eg HMOs. This will be presented and discussions about other types of development and areas that need evidential work done identified.

CIL Bristol City Council will be consulting on the CIL charging schedule and revised planning obligations SPD with the aim of adopting them in Autumn 2012. Some of the areas covered will be what level of the levy will be devolved to the local community to allocate through the Neighbourhood Partnership organisation, and whether the CIL will be allocated to a particular department eg Parks, Highways, Education or put into a central pot where all departments would bid for allocation.

Please can you let me know if you intend to come to this meeting?

Future Dates for Meetings with Planning Officers

The following dates have been confirmed for 2012.
We have agreed that meetings are now scheduled every 3 months instead of every 2.

However, if anything comes up that the Network groups would like to discuss urgently, additional meetings can be set up.

Thursday 19 January 5.30 - 7.00 pm
Thursday 19 April 5.30 - 7.00 pm
Thursday 19 July 5.30 - 7.00 pm
Tuesday 23 October 5.30 - 7.00 pm

At the first meeting in January 2012, we propose to look at the different ways in which communities can get involved in thinking about development in their area under current and emerging legislation eg

Neighbourhood Development Plans
Character Appraisals
Site Briefs
Concept Statements

This will also include feedback about the three 'front runner' schemes under the Localism Bill,

Lockleaze
Bedminster
Redcliffe

Planning Online - BCC online planning application system

Some changes have been made to the way that Planning Online now works.

You no longer have to register to comment
Comments made on line or in emails to development management are displayed on the documents page
You will still need to register to set up tracking or email alerts

We have been asked for feedback on the system - could you
please let me know how your group is getting on with the new system by answering the following questions?

Are all the NPN groups signed up and getting email alerts?
What do people think about the publishing of comments (ie either individual comments and/or groups comments) online, note names and addresses are now published online though not email addresses, any comments on this?
How is the scanning going, eg time to publish and indexing?
Feedback on particular cases please.
Any thoughts on what could be improved?

Could someone from each group respond, please?

Site Allocations and Development Management Principles;
Central Area Action Plan

The current programme for the Bristol Development Framework consultation programme has been put onto the NPN website.
http://www.bristolnpn.net/current-projects/core-strategy

The Site Allocations programme has been delayed by the political decision on which, if any, of the Green Spaces should be allocated for development. A decision on how this is going to go forward is anticipated before Christmas which should allow the Site Allocations programme to start up again in January.

Bristol Civic Society Planning Applications Group

BCS PAG is currently considering their responses to the following cases.

If your group has any comments that you would like BCS PAG to take into account
can you please contact the following asap
Gordon Tucker
gordonjtucker@googlemail.com;
and John Payne
johnpayne997@btinternet.com

11/03512/LA	10 & 11 Dowry Square	Retrospective application re chimney
11/03707/A	65 Baldwin Street	Signs
11/03766/A	Fitness Centre, 48-56 Queens Road	Signs
11/03827/Z	229 Avonmouth Road, Avonmouth	Enforcement notice appeal against a 2-storey ext.
11/03836/F	Access Road Playing Fields Bonnington Walk	Construction of a new 3m wide shared-use path
11/03851/A	Pizza Express, 31 Berkeley Square	Signs, menu boxes & rondel
11/03858/F	Bannatyne's, 80 Redland Road	14 Additional car-parking spaces
11/03868/F	22-30 Jamaica Street, Cabot	Installation of 9 solar panels
11/03881/CP	130 Church Road, Bishopsworth	Certificate of lawfulness - work in loft etc.
11/03929/F	Railway Sidings at N End of Pioneer Park	Change of use of railway siding to car park.
11/03944/F	67-69 Queens Road	C/u & new shop fronts & awnings
11/04023/X	20 Gloucester Road, Bishopston	Variation of condition - c/u - beverages on forecourt
11/04027/F	All Saints Church All Saints Lane	Reinstatement of wrought iron railings to forecourt area
11/04035/F	Lanercost Wigton Crescent Bristol BS10	Installation of 129 No Solar Panels on two roofs
11/04047/R	The Memorial Stadium Filton Avenue	Extension of time for planning permission 08/00061/F
11/04069/A	The George And Railway, Victoria Street	Open weave mesh display situated upon scaffold.
11/04085/H	21 All Saints Road, Bristol BS8 2JL	Provision of entrance doors and steps to rear
11/04099/COND	Upper Maudlin Street Bristol	Extensions to rear and to roof

Who's Who in Development Services

The updated list of Development Services officers is attached

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Who'swhoinDevelopmentServicesOct2011.pdf

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Juliet Johns,

24 Oct 2011 03:16

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