07/11/2017 SC Minutes

SHADWELL NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN STEERING GROUP

Meeting held at 8.00 pm Tuesday, 7th November 2017

Shadwell Library, Arts Centre and Café.

MINUTES

Item 1 - To open meeting and accept apologies for absence.

Apologies confirmed: ES

Present: DP, JT, HJ, PB, IH, NM, DT, AP

Item 2 - To agree minutes from 3rd October 2017

Last meeting minutes, from 3rd October, were approved by all.

Matters arising:

Point 3 Community Assets. Clerk of PC has the list. This must be registered with LCC, and agreed by LCC. DP to progress.

Point 4 JT to receive details of the LCC "Wellbeing Fund" from Cllr Matthew Robinson, to establish whether appropriate for funding beyond March 2018.

Item 3 - Update. Item for the Parish Council Newsletter JT.

All agreed. JT to send to PC Clerk.

Item 4 - Revised NP Project Plan. Time scale and remaining stages PB.

Consultation with LCC and public engagement by the end of 2017.

NP to be ‘made’ July 2019.

Grant from Groundwork UK, Community Rights Programme ends 31 March 2018.

Timescales and stages.

Agreed.

Item 5 - Policies, Evidence and Tasks document PB (dated 03/11/17).
To discuss, resolve issues and allocate tasks.

• UD1 Development within Conservation areas
  • "Proposals for new development and extensions within the Shadwell Conservation Area and the Shadwell (Holywell Triangle) Conservation Area should be accompanied by a statement demonstrating how the development will preserve and enhance the special historic and architectural interest of its location."
  • Issues arising Holywell Triangle Conservation Area. Aim for completion by end of NP process, but this is dependent on LCC. If not completed can identify as a ‘Heritage Area’.
  • Agreed.
    
    
• UD2 Non-designated heritage assets
  • "Proposals for development involving the non-designated heritage assets identified on the Policy Map should demonstrate how the development will sustain and enhance the significance of the heritage asset".
  • Issues arising Identify non-designated heritage assets asap. Agreed a community walkabout 10am Saturday 2nd December. To be advertised on the NP website and the PC website. PB send information to JT and PC Clerk.
  • PB to produce a ‘walkabout checklist.
  • Agreed.
    
    
• UD3 Positive Design.
  • "Any new building, alteration or extension should aim to achieve excellence in design, recognising and enhancing local distinctiveness and character, including:
    • the scale of buildings in the locality, their materials and detailed design features;
    • the townscape setting such as corner sites, focal points, viewpoints and vistas, particularly those identified on the Policy Map;
    • any existing trees and planting, and;
    • boundary walls".
  • Agreed. The above list might be extended following the walkabout.
    
    
• E1 Development location.
  • Wording for 2nd option.
  • "Development should be located within the village envelope as defined on the Policy Map, unless it is appropriate to the purposes of the Green Belt or is on land allocated for development by the Leeds Local Development Framework."
  • Agreed
    
    
• E2 Trees and Development.
  • "Development should ensure that healthy trees within and adjacent to the site are retained unless there is strong justification for their removal. Retained trees must be protected during development and retained and maintained thereafter. Trees shown by an arboricultural survey or any other reason to require removal should be replaced by suitable species within the site where possible."
  • Agreed as above, omitting the alternative requirement for replacement planting elsewhere in Shadwell.
  • Agreed, to include a project to identify where new trees could be planted.
    
    
• E3 Local Green Spaces
  • "The following areas are designated Local Green Spaces, where development will be resisted except in very special circumstances:
    • Recreation Ground
    • Pitts Wood
    • Dan Quarry
    • Village Green
    • St Paul's Churchyard
    • Allotments
    • Bus terminus
    • Ridge and Furrow Field"
  • In the questionnaire asking to identify "important structures, features and spaces that should be protected for future generations", all the above locations received a greater than 50% score in the 4-5(highly important) gradings except: the Bus Terminus and the Ridge and Furrow Field.
  • These spaces will be looked at as part of the walkabout and specific attention will be drawn to those included in the pre-submission consultation to ensure local residents support the allocations.
  • Agreed.
    
    
• Project: Try to find a location for a new play area in the east of the village.
  • Agreed.
    
    
• Project: Try to find a location for additional allotments.
  • Agreed.
    
    
• Project: Encourage provision of a new small scale Medical Centre in the village.
  • DT to ask PC Clerk to ask CCG (Clinical Commission Group) on viability and funding, (if a Doctors practice would be prepared to set up).
  • Agreed.
    
    
• C1 New public seating.
  • "Development which includes the provision of additional public seating in appropriate locations, particularly adjoining Main Street and Shadwell Lane, in consultation with the local community, will be encouraged and supported."
  • Agreed. Include identification of possible locations in walkabout.
    
    
• C2 Community Facilities.
  • "Proposals to change the Planning Use Class of any of the following community facilities will be permitted only if it can be demonstrated that the use is no longer required. or that there is a suitable alternative current provision within the village:
    • The Post Office
    • Shops at 55-61 Main Street
    • The Red Lion public house
    • Shadwell Independent Library and Arts Centre
    • The Recreation Hall at Holywell Lane Park
    • The Village Hall
    • The Scout Hut
    • St Paul's Church
    • The Methodist Church"
  • All the above have been included as potential "Assets of Community Value" to be put forward by the Parish Council to LCC for registration.
  • In the questionnaire asking to identify "How important to you, individually / as a family, are the following current village facilities?", all the above locations received a greater than 50% score in the 4-5(highly important) gradings except: The Recreation Hall, and the Scout Hut. However both those achieved those scores in the "important structures features and spaces that should be protected for future generations" and are most likely to have been selected for their use, rather than their importance in the townscape. The shops and the Methodist Church were not included in the questionnaire list.
  • Agreed. Specific attention will be drawn to the list included in the pre-submission consultation to ensure local residents support the allocations.
    
    
• Project: Highway safety
  • Agreed, subject to changes currently happening with Highways.
    
    
• S1 Telecommunication equipment
  • "Development involving the erection of telecommunications equipment should ensure that it does not adversely affect the character of the village or the views and vistas shown on the Policy map"
  • Agreed
    
    
• S2 Micro energy production
  • "Development involving the erection of micro-energy production equipment should ensure that it does not adversely affect the character of the building, particularly if it is a heritage asset, or the views and vistas shown on the Policy map"
  • Agreed

All wording agreed in principle, subject to further amendments by PB (not to affect the intention of the policies) following appraisal of recent Examiners’ reports into other NPs in Leeds.

PB will forward to Ian Mackay (LCC) for comments.

Item 6 - Any Other Business.

JT Agreed payments to the Library for meetings.

JT Update on proposed new primary school.

Revised proposals by LCC are no longer in Shadwell Parish Council area, but would be located at Allerton Grange and Moor Allerton Hall.

Item 7 - Date of Next Meeting.

8pm, 12th December at the Library.