Agenda item - BH2016/01592 - Household Waste Recycling Site, Modbury Way, Hove - Removal or Variation of Condition

Application for variation of condition 3 of application BH2015/00180 to allow the transfer facility to accept street cleansing waste, waste from communal bin operations, cardboard and green garden waste from Brighton & Hove City Council collections, re-usable, recyclable, recoverable and residual waste arising from Household Waste Recycling Sites, commercial recyclable waste and commercial residual waste for energy recovery or landfill. (Retrospective)

RECOMMENDATION – GRANT

Ward Affected: Hove Park

Application for variation of condition 3 of application BH2015/00180 to allow the transfer facility to accept street cleansing waste, waste from communal bin operations, cardboard, green garden waste from Brighton & Hove City Council collections, re-usable, recyclable, recoverable and residual waste arising from Household Waste Recycling Sites, commercial recyclable waste and commercial residual waste for energy recovery or landfill. (Retrospective)

(1)             The Principal Planning Officer, Steve Tremlett, gave a presentation by reference to site plans, photographs and drawings. It was noted that the Hove Household Waste Recycling Site was of approximately 2.0 ha with a floor area of 2800m2 and was accessed the south side of Old Shoreham Road. There were industrial buildings to the north and the Hove Technology Centre was located to the east. The west flank of the site was backed onto by residential dwellings with gardens in Aldrington Avenue. At the southern end of the site was a large shed where domestic refuse and the recyclable material is collected and sorted.

(2)             Planning permission was sought to vary condition 3 of application BH2015/00180 to allow the transfer facility to accept street cleansing waste, waste from communal bin operations, cardboard, green garden waste from Brighton & Hove City Council collections, re-usable, recyclable, recoverable and residual waste arising from Household Waste Recycling Sites, commercial recyclable waste and commercial residual waste for energy recovery or landfill. This application sought to regularise an activity which had been occurring at the site for the last two/three years to allow a broader range of commercial waste to be processed at the site.

(3)          The proposed variation was considered to be acceptable and would result in a modest change to vehicle trips and waste volume passing through the site. In response to concerns raised in relation to the processing of source-separated household food waste, the applicant had indicated that this aspect of the application was no longer being pursued. Approval was therefore recommended.

Questions of Officers

(4)          Councillors Mac Cafferty and Littman sought clarification as to whether food waste would be processed at the site and it was confirmed that this would not be processed on the site.

Decision and Debate

(5)          Members then moved to the vote and on a vote of 11 with 1 abstention planning permission was granted.

44.3       RESOLVED – That the Committee has taken into consideration and agrees with the reasons for the recommendation set out in section 11 of the report and the policies and guidance in section 7 and resolves to GRANT planning permission subject to the Conditions and Informatives set out in section 11 and the amendment set out .

              Amend Condition 3:

              The premises shall be used for no other purpose than as a Household Waste Recycling Site and transfer facility for wastes from East Sussex and Brighton & Hove Household Waste Recycling Sites, commercial waste, street cleansing waste (including fly tipped waste and bulky waste collections), communal bin operations, cardboard and green waste, and on occasions when the Hollingdean MRF or WTS facility are unavailable or where there are other exceptional conditions the site shall be used as a transfer facility for kerbside collected waste and recyclables (not to exceed 20 days per year, except where agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority).

              Reason: Due to the proximity of residential properties there is a need to secure control over additional activities on the site in the interests of protecting residential amenity and in accordance with policy WMP25 of the East Sussex, South Downs and Brighton & Hove Waste and Minerals Plan and policies QD27, SU9 and SU10 of the Brighton & Hove Local Plan.

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