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Agenda for the Conservation meeting of
2018-01-23 at 19:00 in “The Stocks”

A.    Chair: If Roger Tordoff gets back to Ecclesfield in time, then he has offered to chair the meeting. If not, an informal discussion may suffice for this month’s agenda.

C.    Apologies: RT possibly as above.

D.    Agenda Items

     1. Potential processing of fracking waste.

     2. Grant for work on St. Mary’s Church and its history, and damage to the war memorial.

X.    Any Planning Concerns. See the penultimate section.

Y.    Any questions or comments on the “Emails received”, “Information watch”, or “Issues remaining”. sections below; or any other business.

Z.     Confirmation, or change to scheduled next meeting date of 27/2.


On the Agenda Items

1. Applications have been made to begin exploratory work to drill for gas in Rotherham and Derbyshire, and INEOS has been granted a permit to treat any wastewater at Starnhill Close (off Station Rd), Ecclesfield. INEOS has offered an estimated £2.5 billion in compensation, but as far as I can see, only to people living near the wells. More recently, Sheffield City Council has passed a motion opposing fracking on Council Land, but MP Clive Betts is reported to have said that INEOS have asked to move any planning applications from the Council to the Planning Inspectorate.

2. The Star has now announced the grant for the roof repairs to St. Mary’s Church.

The items in the next few sections will not be gone through one by one, but can be discussed in any other business if any member wishes to bring them up.


Communications received, e.g. on ecclesfield.conservation@gmail.com

·     We received an email from Sheffield City Council saying that they were expecting to have to make further savings of £30 million. The North Area are holding an open meeting on Wednesday 24th January 6.00 – 8.00 pm at Woodseats Methodist Church, Holmhirst Road S8 0GS for people to tell the Council about their priorities, and where money might be invested or saved.


Information watch


Issues from previous minutes

If any members can help, or want to bring any of the following up for any other reason, they can do so in any other business.

*    Our on-line archive and website need attention - see Information Watch above.
*    Designs for the pop-up banners are still in progress.
*      We have a fireproof trunk for storing archive material. Members might prefer a more generally accessible location if one can be found [As well as perhaps other things such as our Gazebo].
*      We still have plans to survey major trees within the Conservation Area.
*      Sheffield City Council’s alcohol licensing system is still not on-line. This not only makes it difficult for anybody to find out what restrictions apply to any licences granted in the past, but we may be missing some of their new decisions, since we can only see the latest (2 week?) decisions.


New planning applications

The following planning applications were found by searching for Ward = “East Ecclesfield”, Parish = Ecclesfield Parish Council”, postcodes S35 9?? and S35 1TE, validated from 16th Nov 2017 - 21st Jan 2017. [You may be able to click on the underlined links, and then the [Documents] tab to see the drawings etc. Otherwise, just go to planningapps.sheffield.gov.uk/online-applications/, then enter the “Ref. No” for the application you are interested in.
The contents of brackets and italics are my interpretation - made after briefly scanning some of the planning documents]


Still pending

·        Demolition of training facility and single storey building for use as a restaurant with associated drive-thru, car parking and landscaping and associated works and installation of 2 Customer Order Displays with associated canopies
Land Adjacent South Yorkshire Police Divisional Headquarters The Common Sheffield S35 9WL
Ref. No: 16/01781/FUL | Received: Thu 12 May 2016 | Validated: Fri 13 May 2016
[ 2018-01-21  Awaiting Decision. No activity found since the 8th November extension of time (until 31st December  2016). Site registers 169 comments, all of which seem to be against McDonald’s apart from the initial batch obtained by the applicant.]

 

·       Illuminated freestanding 12 metre high totem sign
land Adjacent South Yorkshire Police Divisional Headquarters, The Common, Sheffield S35 9WL
Ref. No: 16/01778/ADV | Received: Thu 12 May 2016 | Validated: Thu 12 May 2016
[ 2018-01-21  
Awaiting Decision - see above.]

·        1 illuminated gateway sign, 6 illuminated totem signs, 1 illuminated panel sign, 2 illuminated freestanding directional signs and 1 post mounted directional sign, 3 post mounted banner signs and 21 parking signs - all non-illuminated
Land Adjacent South Yorkshire Police Divisional Headquarters The Common Sheffield S35 9WL
Ref. No: 16/01777/ADV | Received: Thu 12 May 2016 | Validated: Thu 12 May 2016 | Status:
[ 2018-01-21 
Awaiting Decision - see above.]

·        Provision of one illuminated logo sign, three illuminated individual letter signs and two illuminated fascia signs
Land Adjacent South Yorkshire Police Divisional Headquarters The Common Sheffield S35 9WL
Ref. No: 16/01780/ADV | Received: Thu 12 May 2016 | Validated: Mon 16 May 2016 | Status:
[2018-01-21  
Awaiting Decision - see above.]

·        Erection of a motorway service area including proposed facilities building, hotel, filling station, parking facilities for all vehicles, access and circulation internal roads, structured and natural landscaping with outside picnic space and dog walking area, associated infrastructure and earthworks (Town and Country Planning (EIA) Regulations 2011 Schedule 2 proposal) (Amended plans received 11 July 2014)
Smithy Wood Cowley Hill (Adjoining Junction 35 Of M1 Motorway) Sheffield 35
Ref. No: 14/01079/OUT | Received: Tue 25 Mar 2014 | Validated: Fri 11 Jul 2014 | Status: Pending Consideration.
[ 2018-01-21  
Awaiting Decision. I could not find any further documents on the SCC planning portal, since Pegasus asked for a meeting. The (alternative?) proposal for a Motorway Service Station on the M1 at Junction 33, showed no further documents since 12 Sept 2017.  http://rotherham.planportal.co.uk/?id=RB2017/1347].

The agenda for the next planning meeting at 6th Feb 2018 did not appear on the SCC website. Anybody interested in any of the new or pending applications may want to check the agendas at http://democracy.sheffield.gov.uk/ieListMeetings.aspx?CommitteeId=373 and see if they want to attend or speak on any of the decisions they may be concerned about.


 

Decided

·        Demolition of existing dwellinghouse and erection of a dwellinghouse
419 Whitley Lane Sheffield S35 8RP
Ref. No: 17/02758/FUL | Received: Fri 30 Jun 2017 | Validated: Fri 30 Jun 2017 | 24 Sep 2017
[2017-11-26 Grant conditionally: ...if constructed to a high specification, could enhance the character and appearance of the area, ...”]


Alcohol Licensing

·       No Licensing Act Applications found in Ecclesfield Village 15the January 2018