To be uploaded to
conservation.ecclesfieldgroups.com
shortly. [Version dated 2019-03-25 by
JP]
Agenda
for the Conservation meeting of
2019-03-26 at
19:00 in “The Stocks”
A.
Chair: RT
(But
may not be able to make this month’s meeting).
B.
Apologies
C.
Approval
or amendment of the minutes
of
the last meeting before making public
on
the Internet
D.
Agenda Items
(see
below for details)
Old co-op building and the Government’s Future High Streets
Fund - Report and discussion.
Which issues are members most interested in ?
Banners
- Progress
report and discussion.
Petition for a 30 mile per hour speed limit on Yew Lane – see
communications below.
Frack-Free
Ecclesfield
and Chapeltown - Attendance report and discussion.
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. To confirm or change the next meeting date of 23rd
of April.
On the Agenda Items
1. Ecclesfield High Street has not been chosen
as one of Sheffield’s four “Expressions of Interest”, so there
will be no money to help renovate the old co-op from this source. On
the other hand in putting Ecclesfield High Street’s case, we seem
to have created so much fuss that we have been offered a meeting with
a top Sheffield City planner. One way of making use of this
opportunity would be to compile a list of questions, point out the
sites involved, and report back with the answers. Alternatively or in
addition, we could offer to contribute to any “strategic plan”,
which the Parish Council might agree to prepare – see Information
Watch below.
2.
A list of the issues we are interested would be useful, both in
selecting text for the banners, and to promote and organise our web
site. Each issue might be most effective if it could be reduced to a
single keyword or key phrase. For instance, if we signed up to be a
Defra
Stakeholder, (as
we were invited to after we responded to their consultation on
trees),
we might want to include the keyword “environment”.
3. We now have a template for the flag banner,
and equivalent for the horizontal banner.
5. A white MAN tanker like those from the
Mission site has been spotted unloading or loading at FCC.
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.
Thanks to KM for being first in giving us the good news about
the withdrawal of the application for a McDonald’s on the Common –
see “Decided” below.
We received a copy of a petition for a speed limit on Yew
Lane.
[I therefore checked, and found
https://www.southyorks.police.uk/find-out/news/2019/march-2019/community-speed-watch-relaunched-following-requests-from-the-public/
which invites people to help reduce traffic speeds.
In
case anybody wants to talk about this, I should say that SY Police
often attend Ecclesfield Library on Saturday morning. Alternatively,
there are sessions every fortnight at Chapeltown library, the next
of which I calculate, should be at 10:30 on 4th
April.
I also found that
https://www.collisionmap.uk/,
for the 3 years to 2017 found 1 serious (car–pedestrian) accident
and three slight accidents on Yew Lane. This looked only be typical
of other major roads through Ecclesfield - apart from the fatal
accident showing on Ecclesfield Road, which I seem to remember being
put down to flooding.
I also looked on
https://www.speedcameramap.co.uk/
and found that the nearest speed cameras listed are on
Ecclesfield Road, opposite to the School, and (two) on Penistone
Road i.e. none on Yew Lane ].
Information watch
The Wheel
is to have a maximum lorry weight imposed of 7.5 tonne. Presumably
it takes effect when notices to that effect go up.
Butterthwaite Lane
seems to have re-opened as
a bridle/walkway, with what looks like a new bridge.
Our Ecclesfield
Parish Council has
been recommended to have meetings in different neighbourhoods. The
report
was commissioned by Sheffield City Council as a result of
complaints, and contained 29 recommendations, including that it
prepare a “long term strategic plan” for the Parish.
A plan for HS3,
(now renamed Northern
Powerhouse Rail - NPR)
has been presented to Government. Among other things, it suggests
that Sheffield to Leeds times could be reduced from 41 to 26 minutes
along the Hope Valley line.
Both our MP Angela
Smith and our East
Ecclesfield Councillor Steve
Wilson have resigned
from the Labour party, and the latter has been replaced as Labour
candidate for the May 2nd
election.
https://www.thestar.co.uk/our-towns-and-cities/sheffield/sheffield-councillor-quits-labour-days-after-mp-wife-defects-1-9622320.
They remain in post, but there are petitions about this, such as
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/236800
.
The government has published a
study of hybrid
gas boiler/electric heat-pump systems.
This seems to be in line with the Chancellor’s spring statement
saying that new properties would have to use “alternative”
heating systems from 2025.
If you want to see petitions
on conservation related issues; the anti “B” word petition
currently
heading for 6 million signatures; or
the several opposing petitions, just go to
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions?state=open.
As with all such parliamentary petitions, all they require is your
name, email address and Postcode to confirm validity.
Issues completed
Outstanding
interests
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.
*
Following our
submission
to it, the results of the Governments
consultation
on
Trees.
*
We have a baseline figure for the radioactivity in Blackburn
brook,
ready to check for any increase, whether due to fracking or any other
discharges. However, it occurred to me recently that if anybody can
suggest a suitable access point, a measurement upstream of FCC
environmental might also be useful.
* I have been experimenting
with, but am still not happy with the more secure website
at
https://ecclesfieldgroups.co.uk/
If anybody has any comments on doing something similar with, or any
other aspects of our website, just let me know.
*
Designs for the pop-up, and horizontal banners
are
still in progress – see above.
* 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 licenses 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 and appeals were found by searching
for Ward = “East Ecclesfield”, Parish = Ecclesfield Parish
Council”, postcodes S35 9?? and S35 1TE, validated from 12th
Feb 2019
to
24th
Mar
2019.
[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]
Erection
of a motorway area including proposed facilities building, hotel,
filling station, 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.
[
2019-03-26 Awaiting
Decision, with an
extension of time until “acceptability or otherwise of Applegreen
application … has been resolved”. However,
as far as I could see, the proposal for a Motorway
Service Station on the M1 at Junction 33,
showed no movement or further documents since 12 Sept 2017.
http://rotherham.planportal.co.uk/?id=RB2017/1347].
The
next SCC Planning Committee meeting does not list any “Ecclesfield”
applications, but anybody concerned about the next meeting which is
on 2nd
April
might
be able to check when the agenda is published nearer the time at
democracy.sheffield.gov.uk/ieListMeetings.aspx?CommitteeId=373
.
Decided
Single
storey rear and side extension to dwellinghouse (resubmission of
18/00194/FUL)
145 Yew Lane Sheffield S5 9AP
Ref. No: 19/00391/FUL |
Received: Fri 01 Feb 2019 | Validated: Mon 11 Feb 2019
[2019-03-24
Grant conditionally: This is a modified version of an
application granted last month. The stated change is to the colour
of the render, which is now said to be “chalk”. The drawings
have been re-presented, perhaps redrawn, but I did not spot any
significant difference, apart from the fact that I could not find
the rather copious notes of the originals.
As said last month,
No. 145 is part of the first pair of
semi-detached houses from Ecclesfield in the row of semis set back
from Yew Lane. The extension is attached to the half of the semi
furthest from Ecclesfield, and extends both into the back garden and
sidewards towards the second pair of semis.
Application
to approve details in relation to condition numbers 3 (Land
Contamination Risk Assessment), 4 (Site Investigation Report), 5
(Remediation Works-), 6 (External Materials), 7 (Large Scale
Details), 8 (Wheel Cleaning) 9 (Surface Water) and 10 (Driveway
Surfacing) of planning permission 17/04925/FUL
Hole House
Farm 239 Whitley Lane Sheffield S35 8RP
Ref. No: 17/04925/COND1
| Received: Mon 12 Nov 2018 | Validated: Mon 12 Nov 2018
[
2019-03-23
Decided: The revised
materials were …
i) reclaimed weathered sandstone from
Scarcliffe Quarry.
ii) natural weathered Greys Artstone for the
roof.
iii) Sunflex Anthracite/oak aluminium hardwood doors.
iv)
Anthracite aluminium windows.
v) Stone sets for the courtyard,
and gravel for the drive.
This follows last month's grant of
permission to demolish the stable and workshop and replace it with a
dwelling house.]
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.
[
2019-03-26 Withdrawn:
The Council offered the applicants the option of withdrawing the
application or having it refused, and the applicants chose to
withdraw. The email insisting on these options was dated 6th
March
and the applicants reply was dated 12th,
which may indicate that this was not a difficult decision for the
applicant. The Council quoted “highway and other issues” as the
reason why they would not approve the application without
modification. I could not see the Council’s email asking for
modifications, nor was there the list of reasoned arguments which
would have accompanied the officer’s report had it needed to go to
the Council’s Planning Committee. However, the first objection
listed in our submission was “ACCIDENT RISK”, and this does seem
to have been the “material consideration” which carried most
weight. Of course, this leaves the old Police Training facility
available for sale.
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.
[ 2019-03-26 Withdrawn
- 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.
[
2019-03-26 Withdrawn
- see above.]
Ref.
No: 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.
parking
facilities for all vehicles, access and circulation internal roads.
[
2019-03-26
Withdrawn
-
see above.]