TranscribedP2 TWC0357Sept24
[Chairman Cllr Reynolds]
Peter Scott please.
[Cllr Peter Scott]
My colleague on my right tells me I can go now, so I will. Okay, thank you. I actually like this, this particular one.
I think there should be more of these throughout the country, now mine in the borough. I know in my particular town we give our right arm for it, it's an excellent thing to have. The noise has been dealt with to a point because it's going to finish at 8 o'clock, I mean come on, you know, they're not going to go until past 10, 11 o'clock, it's 8 o'clock, so that's good in itself.
The only real problem I've got with this is Waterloo Road itself, because there's a dirty great long straight there and we watched today and a lot of traffic has no problem with those speed bumps whatsoever. They whip straight over it, it's a 30 mile an hour zone but a lot of them weren't doing 30. I know there's supposed to be some a new crossing put in which will help.
What I'd like to see, and I don't know if it's possible, is on the long straight from outside of this development right the way at the top of the bank that something is put on the road that slows them down even more because it is still, to my mind, a very worrying area. I'm not going to blame it on the football pitches, I mean they are what they are, but if there's going to be a hundred and odd parking spaces there, that's equally going to mean there's going to be a hundred and odd extra cars coming down it. If people are racing because they're late for a match or whatever else, they're going to do what we normally do, we speed, so more things to slow people down on Waterloo Road would be really much appreciated, I'm sure, by the people that live there but that aside, I can support this one happily because I think it is much needed and will help the area.
And I'm worried now because you're not, you're shaking your head, but carry on.
[chairman cllr reynolds]
Right, Councillor Thomas Janke please.
[clle thomas janke]
Thank you Chair. I just want to say I note concerns from residents and I thank Councillor Boylan for his representations. I also appreciate that community groups are going to be engaged on this application once it goes ahead, which is encouraging.
Approval of such applications do have far-reaching positive effects that do enhance the economic, social and cultural vitality of the community, so I do fully support the application on that basis and I do move we fully support the office's recommendations with considerations to the stipulated conditions. That's all I wanted to say, thank you.
[chairman cllr reynolds]
Okay, thank you. Councillor Giles-Luter.
[cllr giles luter]
I'll keep it very brief. I'd just like to say how great I think it is in Telford and wrekin as a borough that we see football pitches being installed rather than being taken away and removed as we see in other areas across the country. I think it's brilliant that we have these facilities in the borough and that the Telford and Wrekin Borough Council encouraged the development.
I think it's great to have these facilities and I think it's brilliant for children and young people to have access to these things, so I'd fully support it.
[chairman cllr reynolds]
Okay, thank you. Councillor Nigel Dugmore, please.
[Cllr Nigel Dugmore]
Yeah, thank you Chair. Yes, it's a very, very nice facility. It's been earmarked for a long time so it's good to see it coming forward.
I mean, I was collared when I went to be car by a resident who was mentioning about the speeding traffic which we'd seen in the afternoon. I mean, there are issues generally and particularly at school pick-up and drop-off as well because there are lots of vehicles on that road. So yeah, I think there does need to be some proper traffic calming measures put in place because this is going to create some extra traffic.
I do think that the main entrance or route to the pitches should be from the Ketley end, so coming up Waterloo Road as opposed to going down it from the rock. And I do think that once it is in place there's going to be a bar in the clubhouse and therefore, so it needs to be taken into consideration that, you know, alcohol and perhaps a function license going in place moving forward, that needs to be taken into consideration as well when the infrastructure is being put in and obviously to help mitigate some of the residents concerns. Thank you Chair.
Okay, thank you.
[chairman reynolds]
Councillor Janice Jones, please.
[cllr janice jones]
That's it. Oh right, okay. Bye.
I also went to the site visit today and as I've mentioned, the traffic down that road was very fast. What I would have liked to seen added to this, because the school was coming out as we were doing the site visit, which was probably an advantage, a bit of an eye-opener to me especially, is some sort of a bridge over the road because yes there is a crossing there but people do chance it and I did notice a couple of people sort of dodging between the cars to get across the road but I think it would have been nice to see in this a bridge of some sort going over the road so that the children in that area didn't have to cross the road. Other than that I support it.
[chairman cllr reynolds]
Okay, thank you. Right, any more comments? No?
No? In that case, we'll put it to for recommendation. It's recommended that the Delegated Authority be granted to the Development Management Service delivery manager to grant full planning permission subject to conditions informatives and the applicant entering into a memorandum of understanding to secure financial contributions towards travel plan monitoring and section 106 monitoring fees.
So if I put that to the vote, those that are for the recommendation. Is that unanimous? Yeah?
Yeah? So yeah, there we go. It's unanimous and it's passed.
So thank you. Alright and thank you for attending tonight as well. Alright.
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