To be made available on conservation.ecclesfieldgroups.com [Version dated 2018-04-24 by JP]
Agenda
for the Conservation meeting of
2018-04-24 at 19:00 in “The
Stocks”
A. Chair: Roger Tordoff.
C. Apologies: MM phoned to say that she is handling a crisis and might be late.
D. Agenda Items
Possible fracking water processing in Ecclesfield.
Possible building on green belt land between Whitely Lane and Chapeltown Road.
Maintenance of heritage boards.
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 April 24th.
1.
I
am still hoping to register our objection to INEOS’s proposal to
Frack near Marsh Lane, however I can’t yet see a way of doing this.
The inquiry is scheduled to last 8 days starting on 10a.m. 19th
June
2018 at the Market Hall, Assembly Rooms, Soresby Street,
Chesterfield. If anybody wishes to attend, then they are asked to
come on the first day to make this known.
As
background; we understand that 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. Also,
AR said that he emailed INEOS about the proposed processing of the
wastewater in Ecclesfield, but got no reply.
2. Although I could not find an actual planning application, we have been told that "Strata Homes" are preparing to build on one or more of the fields between Whitely Lane and Chapeltown Road. It has just been surveyed, and we were told that the land owners were insisting that the horses currently on one of the fields had to be moved. The area is Green belt and policy Policies G6A, F2(h) should apply.
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, e.g. on ecclesfield.conservation@gmail.com.
We have sent our objection to the the proposal for the demolition of the old co-op at 62-64-66 High Street in to the Government’s appeal inquiry. The SCC case officer kindly confirmed the procedure to us, but we are still learning how best to respond to such appeals.
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.
*   
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.
The
following planning applications were found by searching for Ward =
“East Ecclesfield”, Parish = Ecclesfield Parish Council”,
postcodes S35 9?? and S35 1TE, validated from 8th
Feb
2018
-
25th
Mar
2018.
[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]
	Pruning
	of trees (Tree Preservation Order No 808/121) Open for
	Comment
Kingdom Hall Of Jehovahs Witnesses Green Lane
	Ecclesfield Sheffield S35 9WY
Ref. No: 18/01496/TPO | Received:
	Fri 13 Apr 2018 | Validated: Fri 13 Apr 2018 | Status: Awaiting
	decision 
Use of 3 storey office building as 18 self-contained flats
	Open for Comment
North Sheffield Primary Care Trust 89 Green
	Lane Ecclesfield Sheffield S35 9WY
Ref. No: 18/01279/ORPN |
	Received: Wed 28 Mar 2018 | Validated: Wed 18 Apr 2018: 
[2018-03-24
	Awaiting decision: Most of the flats seem to have been
	turned round from the previous plan, perhaps to give them less
	window/noise exposure. I will bring a printout to the meeting so
	that people can see the new proposal. However in parallel to this
	there is an appeal against
	the previous application for the same building 17/04529/ORPN,
	presumably after that and 17/03386/ORPN were refused. Reasons
	for the SCC refusals included the results of noise measurements
	and concluded "the building is not suitable for
	residential use".]
101 Town End
	Road Sheffield S35 9YX
Ref. No: 18/00993/LD2 | Received: Mon 12
	Mar 2018 | Validated: Mon 12 Mar 2018.
[2018-03-24 Awaiting
	decision. No 101 lies beyond the Conservation Area, and neither the
	old conservatory or the new extension appear to me to be visible
	from the road. Also, the layout submitted with the application shows
	the extension being outside the what the applicant conjectures to be
	the borders of the Green Belt, and I could not see any large or
	important trees that would be affected.]P
Demolition
	of existing stable block and workshop, erection of dwellinghouse and
	conversion of existing building to form an annexe/utility room 
Hole
	House Farm 239 Whitley Lane Sheffield S35 8RP
Ref.
	No: 17/04925/FUL | Received: Fri 01 Dec 2017 | Validated: Thu 07 Dec
	2017.
[ 2018-04-24 Status: Awaiting
	decision. This concerns the existing Stables, Annexe,
	Workshop/Store, and Outbuilding/OldToilet. The site is raised above
	Whitley lane and screen behind trees. The application includes the
	retention of 4 car spaces on the large (0.1 Hectare) site.]
	Erection
	of a dwellinghouse with integral garages
Land
	To The Rear Of 135 Church Street Ecclesfield Sheffield S35 9WF
Ref.
	No: 17/04814/FUL | Received: Thu 23 Nov 2017 | Validated: Thu 23 Nov
	2017.
[2018-04-24
	Status: Awaiting decision. Extension of time
	until 2018-03-02. This is the full planning application for a house
	on land for which provisional permission for 2 houses has already
	been conditionally granted. The land currently forms the long back
	garden of No. 135 which lies adjacent to the Kindergarten car park,
	and continues almost to the lake.
Objections have been lodged
	by Mr Steer and the Ecclesfield Dam Fishing Club on the grounds of
	lack of permission for the proposed vehicular access from the
	Kindergarten car park. The application is accompanied by a very
	detailed 85 page report on contaminants in the "made ground"
	of the garden, and details of their possible remediation. Most
	recently, the applicant has provided Land Registry plans for his
	site, the embankment, and the pond. ]
	Alterations
	and extension to disused barn to form a dwellinghouse (Re-submission
	of 16/03650/FUL) Lower
	Butterthwaite Farm 125 Butterthwaite Lane Sheffield S35 9WA
Ref.
	No: 17/04006/FUL | Received: Mon 25 Sep 2017 | Validated: Tue 17 Oct
	2017.
[ 2018-04-24
	Still awaiting decision: From Green Lane, this
	is the first farm on the right, after the railway bridge. The white
	square windows and corrugated metal roof of the barn are just
	visible behind the farm house. The previous submission was rejected,
	with the “re-cladding in stone”, and “additional dormer
	window” being mentioned by in the officer’s report. I am not
	sure what problems the dormer windows create, but they still seem to
	be in the plans.] 
	
·       
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.
[
2018-04-24  Awaiting
Decision. The Star
reported negotiations are still in progress, however I found no
activity in the SCC’s planning document list since the 8th
November
extension of time (until 31st
December
 2016). Site registers 170 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.
[ 2018-04-24  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.
[
2018-04-24 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.
[2018-04-24
 Awaiting
Decision - see above.]
·       
Erection
of a motorway 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.
[
2018-04-24  Awaiting
Decision.
I could not find any further documents on the SCC planning portal,
since 22 Nov 2017, when 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 1st May 2018 did not appear to refer to this, but anybody interested may want to check later agendas at http://democracy.sheffield.gov.uk/ieListMeetings.aspx?CommitteeId=373 and see if they want to attend or speak at the above or any other of the applications that may appear on these agendas.
Two-storey
	side and single-storey front extensions to dwellinghouse 
54
	Priory Road Ecclesfield Sheffield S35 9XZ
Ref.
	No: 18/00556/FUL | Received: Wed 07 Feb 2018 | Validated: Wed 07 Feb
	2018.
[
	2018-02-27 Awaiting decision. No 54 is one of the new houses
	opposite the cemetery. The extension seems to replace an existing
	small utility room, but it puts the main 2 story wall of the house
	near to the boundary with  No. 2 Priory Close. There don't
	appear to be any windows in that wall. The officer’s report ticked
	the box for compatibility, including the matching of materials and
	features.] 
	
Installation
	of solar photovoltaic array to roof of building
	
Waste
	Recycling Group Plc Waste Treatment Works Starnhill
	Close Sheffield S35 9TG 
Ref.
	No: 18/00487/FUL | Received: Fri 02 Feb 2018 | Validated: Wed 07 Feb
	2018.
[
	2018-04-24 Grant
	conditionally. 162 panels covering one side of the very large flat
	roof, of total capacity 48.6kWp ]
Application
	under Sec 73 to vary condition 2 (approved plans) imposed by
	17/01049/FUL to allow the addition of garages to four dwellinghouses
	and the repositioning of the houses 
Site Of 209
	High Street Ecclesfield Sheffield S35 9XB
Ref.
	No: 18/00230/FUL | Received: Mon 15 Jan 2018 | Validated: Thu 01 Feb
	2018.
[
	2018-04-24 Granted.
	This is the site of the old Hobson’s butchers. They have already
	got planning permission for the two blocks of link-detached houses.
	As drawn in the plans, the garages are attached, and in compatible
	brick. There appear to be only 4 garages for five houses, but each
	garage is set back, leaving a car-standing. Grant conditions include
	provision of 2 bat and 3 bird boxes, and “...demolition works can
	only proceed once all chicks have fledged”.
	]
· The link to the current Licensing Act Applications did not seem to be working, nor did the licensing contact web page, or the email address I had for them. I therefore printed the email out for posting to them.