To be made available on conservation.ecclesfieldgroups.com [Version dated 2018-05-22 by JP]

Agenda for the Conservation meeting of
2018-05-22 at 19:00 in “The Stocks”

A.    Chair: Roger Tordoff.

C.    Apologies: SP took the bus into Sheffield this afternoon, and might not be back early enough to attend.

D.    Agenda Items

1. Possible building on green belt land between Whitely Lane and Chapeltown Road.

2. Whether to comment on the proposed processing of fracking waste water in Ecclesfield.

3. 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 June 26th.

On the Agenda Items

1) Following activity in surveying the land, and the belief of people living nearby that two of the fields between Whitely Lane and Nether Lane are going to be sold for a housing development, there is now a petition to express opposition to the possible development. The area is Green belt and SCC Planning Policies G6A, and F2(h) should apply.

2) I have just found the link to upload comments on INEOS’s proposal to Frack near Marsh Lane, and tanker the waste to Ecclesfield for processing. The Government’s planning inquiry site lists several deadline dates listed, most of which are long past. However, one of them, “Inquiry Evidence due” is tonight. If members wished, we could upload some brief comments, and perhaps put a copy on our web site. For instance, if members thought it relevant, we could question whether the volume of waste which FCC Environmental was permitted to process on the site was limited. I found their “ISO 14001 Certificate of Registration”, and details of their Environment Agency Permit, neither of which specified a volume limit. I did however press the [Request documents] button. If anybody knows anything further, or I get a reply from this email, I will let members know.

Since our last meeting, Derbyshire Council has confirmed it is still against Fracking. However, the Secretaries of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (Greg Clark), and the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government (James Brokenshire) are proposing to make fracking a permitted development. As I understand it, this would force Local Authorities to approve such applications.

The inquiry itself is scheduled to start on 10a.m. 19^th 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.

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 received an email offering to help maintain our heritage boards.

Information watch

• I need to pay renew our insurance policy with Zurich.
  
  

• Ecclesfield Park should receive a 10 year old English Oak by 2020 as part of the SCC’s “war memorial trees” scheme.
  
  

• Rumours that the roach in Ecclesfield Dam had died off were found to be false after every angler netted at least one roach in a recent competition. One of these was over a Pound.
  
  

• There is a new ePetition asking Sheffield City Council to be more open with information requests. Some of these requests and answers can be seen at https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/body/sheffield_city_council.

• The SCC has published a report recommending a ban on parking within 10m of junctions including Nursery Grove, Nursery Drive, Minster Close and Floodgate Drive.

• The telegraph ran an article on the bluebell display in Woolley Wood as “one of the finest in the country”.

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.
*    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 19^th Apr 2018 - 20^th May 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]

• Application under Sec 73 to vary condition 2. approved drawings imposed by 16/03158/FUL to allow the inclusion of security shutters
  106 High Street Ecclesfield Sheffield S35 9XE
  Ref. No: 18/01652/FUL | Received: Mon 30 Apr 2018 | Validated: Mon 30 Apr 2018 | Status: Awaiting decision
  This is the old Ball Inn, which is being converted to a veterinary practice. The proposed shutters include one for the small font window and larger shutters for each of the main and the outbuilding door areas. They are solid (i.e. not perforated) roll-down metal shutters, and are to be coloured dark grey to match the rendered walls.

Still pending

• 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:
  [2018-05-20 Status: 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".]

• 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.
  [ 2018-05-20 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.
  [2018-05-20 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 new 134 page report. This says that the pond is 6000 square metres in area, of unknown depth, and 2.5 metres above the majority of the site. Its conclusions include 11 recommendations for further work, including drilling to check for contaminants and the stability of the embankment.]

• 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.
  [ 2018-05-20 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.]

• Ref. No: 16/03410/FUL | Demolition of existing buildings and erection of 3 storey block comprising 12x dwellings with associated vehicular access, car and cycle parking | 62, 64 And 66 High Street Ecclesfield Sheffield S35 9XD
  [ 2018-05-20 Appeal “Not yet decided”. Our objection was uploaded to https://acp.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/ViewCase.aspx?Caseid=3185971&CoID=0. The SCC rejected the original application, which involved the demolition of the block of shops including the pet shop, Estate agent’s, and Cerrones, and replacement by a 545m2 to 822m2 building containing possibly 12 apartments.]

·        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.
[ 2018-05-20  Awaiting Decision. I found no activity in the SCC’s planning document list since the 8^th November extension of time (until 31^st 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.
[ 2018-05-20  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.
[ 2018-05-20 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.
[2018-05-20  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.
[ 2018-05-20  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 1^st 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.

Decided

• 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
  [2018-05-20 Status: Decided. Of the original 10 protected poplar trees, only 5 remain. The crowns “comprise of tall drawn weak secondary growths” and consent is given to “re-pollard to previous pruning points”.

• Application for a lawful development certificate for demolition of existing conservatory and erection of a single-storey rear extension (Application under Section 192)

  101 Town End Road Sheffield S35 9YX
  Ref. No: 18/00993/LD2 | Received: Mon 12 Mar 2018 | Validated: Mon 12 Mar 2018.
  [2018-05-20 Withdrawn. The case officer wrote to the applicant saying that an extension of over 4 metres from the house cannot be approved under as a “Permitted Development” without prior notification of neighbours. If any objections were then received, then the proposal would have to be assessed against planning policy.”
  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.]

Alcohol Licensing

·      I did not find any Licensing Applications mentioning “Ecclesfield” or “S35 9” in the list dated 14^th May 2018.