To consider planning application 22/0375 for the use of premises as flexible serviced holiday accommodation of up to two units.
Minutes:
[Councillor Mark Smith joined the meeting].
The Planning Committee considered application 22/0375 for the use of premises as flexible serviced holiday accommodation of up to two units.
Ms Susan Parker, Head of Development Management, outlined the application and advised the Planning Committee that it had been brought before them at the request of the Ward Councillor and also due to the level of public interest.
The Planning Committee was advised of initial proposals for the two properties to be used together to accommodate up to 35 people, which had been considered excessive and inappropriate. Planning permission was now sought to use numbers 44 and 46 Hull Road as two separate group holiday accommodation with each properties being a six bedroom group holiday house accommodating 14 people in each.
Ms Parker noted that no objections had been raised by the Council’s Highways department or Environmental Protection, subject to appropriate conditions being imposed relating to site management and noise attenuation and those conditions were proposed within the Committee Report, along with three representations also detailed. The properties fell within the designated Central Holiday Accommodation Area meaning that use as holiday accommodation was considered to be acceptable in principle.
The proposed properties met the Council’s floorspace standards and a Management Plan had been submitted alongside noise attenuation measures designed to ensure that the holiday accommodation use did not have an unacceptable impact on neighbour amenity. Though no parking was proposed on site, it was noted that the site was in an accessible location and no highways issues had been identified. The application was considered to be acceptable and the Planning Committee was asked to grant planning permission subject to the conditions listed in the Committee Report.
Mr Chris Jones, as the Applicant, spoke in support of the proposals and informed the Planning Committee of his intention to invest in the building to provide good quality family accommodation in Blackpool and noted that he had engaged with Planning Officers and objectors.
Councillor Mark Smith spoke on the application as Ward Councillor and raised residents’ concerns regarding the management plan and noise attenuation, particularly in respect of the proposed 24-hour telephone number, rather than on-site management.
The Planning Committee discussed the application, noting that the application was for holiday accommodation within Blackpool’s Main Holiday Accommodation and was advised by Ms Parker that new holiday accommodation was increasingly in the form of group holiday houses and the majority of these did not have on-site management. Issues regarding antisocial behaviour tended to be in relation to outdoor spaces and due to the constraints of this site, there was very little outdoor amenity space provided. In addition, proposed condition 5 stated that if approved, the accommodation could only be used for serviced holiday accommodation which in planning terms was sui generis and therefore to be used for no other purpose.
Resolved:
That planning permission is granted subject to the conditions set out within the Committee Report.
[Councillor Mark Smith left the meeting at the conclusion of this item].
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