Planning Committee

The Planning Committee met on 2 July 2025 to consider its planning application schedule and to note recent planning appeal decisions. The minute for the schedule records a resolution that decisions be recorded as shown on the attached schedule, and authorises the Planning and Development Manager to draft changes to conditions or reasons for refusal. The minute does not list individual application decisions, and the schedule supplied with it is dated 4 June 2025.

1. Planning application schedule

   Decided

   The minute records a resolution that decisions be recorded as shown on the attached Planning Applications Schedule, and that the Planning and Development Manager be authorised to draft amendments to, or additional conditions or reasons for refusal for, those applications.

   Why

   Planning committees decide applications against the council's Local Development Plan and other material planning considerations. Officers' reports on each application give a recommendation, which the committee may follow or not. The schedule supplied with the minute is headed 4 June 2025, so it may not match the applications considered at this meeting.

   Based on the minutes, Development Management: Planning Application Schedule, Decision Schedule 04.06.2025

2. Recent planning appeal decisions

   Decided

   The minutes record no decision on this item.

   Why

   The report lists four recent appeal outcomes, each decided by the Planning Inspectorate or Welsh Ministers. The appeal on a replacement shop front at 45 Commercial Street was allowed, while appeals at 17-21 Wharf Road and 12 Queens Hill (a six-bedroom house in multiple occupation, meaning a shared house) were dismissed. An appeal against an enforcement notice (a formal order to put right a breach of planning rules) at land next to 48 Tudor Crescent was also dismissed, and the notice upheld.

   Based on the minutes, Appeal Agenda

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1. Apologies

   Minute

   Councillors J Jones

2. 2

   Declarations of Interest

   Minute

   None.

3. 3

   Minutes of the Previous Meeting

   Minute

   The minutes of the meeting held on 04 June 2025 were submitted. Resolved That the minutes of the meeting held on 04 June 2025 be taken as read and confirmed

   Papers: Minutes of the Previous Meeting, Decision Schedule 04.06.2025
4. 4

   Development Management: Planning Application Schedule

   Minute

   (1) That decisions be recorded as shown on the Planning Applications Schedule attached as an Appendix A. (2) That the Planning and Development Manager be authorised to draft any amendments to/additional conditions or reasons for refusal in respect of the Planning Applications Schedule, attached.

   Papers: Development Management: Planning Application Schedule
5. 5

   Appeal Decisions

   Minute

   Members attention was drawn to the appeals report for information.

   Papers: Appeal Agenda

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The minutes record no declarations of interest.

• Malcolm Linton, ChairLabourPresent
• Bev Perkins, Committee MemberLabourPresent
• Gavin Horton, Committee MemberLabourAbsent
• Jason Jordan, Committee MemberNewport Independent PartyPresent
• John Jones, Committee MemberConservativeSent apologies
• John Reynolds, Committee MemberLabourPresent
• Mark Howells, Committee MemberIndependentPresent
• Stephen Cocks, Committee MemberLabourPresent
• Tim Harvey, Committee MemberLabourPresent
• Trevor Watkins, Committee MemberLabourPresent
• William Routley, Committee MemberConservativePresent

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