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Applicant:                          Mr. D. Scott

Location:                           Ex Fun City Site, North Parade, Skegness, PE25 1DB

Recommendation:              Approval with Conditions

Officer:                              Jane Baker

Application Type:       Full Planning Permission       

Proposal:                    Planning Permission - Change of use of land from former amusement park and arcade to a holiday lodge showground, siting of a mobile lodge to use as an office and construction of a vehicular access.

Location:                    EX FUN CITY SITE, NORTH PARADE, SKEGNESS, PE25 1DB

Applicant:                   Mr. D. Scott

Members received an application for full Planning Permission - Change of

use of land from former amusement park and arcade to a holiday lodge

showground, siting of a mobile lodge to use as an office and construction

of a vehicular access at Ex Fun City Site, North Parade, Skegness, PE25

1DB.

The application was subject to a call-in request by Councillor Danny

Brookes for the reason that this area of Skegness needed regeneration,

and the potential granting of a temporary permission would result in

reduced investment in the site which would impact on the success of the

business. The proposed development would also not fully accord with

adopted policy.

The main planning issues were considered to be:

• Principle of this type of development in this location
• Visual Impact
• Neighbour amenity
• Impact on listed building
• Flood risk
• Highway safety

Members were referred to the additional information contained in the supplementary agenda, pages 1 to 2 refer.

Jane Baker, Senior Planning Officer, detailed site and surroundings information to Members at Paragraph 2, together with the description of the proposal at Paragraph 3, pages 11 to 12 of the report refer.

Mr Andrew Clover spoke in support of the application.

Councillor Danny Brookes spoke as Ward Member.

Members were invited to put their questions to the speakers.

• Further to a Member requesting information on the local area, Councillor Danny Brookes advised that there was a public house, a conference centre, a bingo hall, toilet block, a car park, a skate park and a waterway that wasn’t used.  There was also the Town Hall which was a listed building. 

• A Member further queried what costs would be incurred on works for the dropped curb, planting and resurfacing.  Mr Clover advised that the cost for the physical works would be around £100,000 but with the luxury lodges going on the site, there could be holiday ‘show’ lodges up to a value of £1m on site at any one time.

Following which, the application was opened for debate.

• A Member referred to Condition No. 3 and queried whether there would be any negative impact in removing this or by making changes to the wording for the temporary permission.  The Development Management Lead Officer advised that if the Committee decided there was more benefit in allowing something to remain on the site that would help with its regeneration and that outweighed the policy conflict,  the Committee was able to make the decision to remove Condition 3.

Following which, the application was proposed and seconded for approval in line with officer recommendation, with the removal of Condition 3.

Vote:          9 in favour          0 against             2 abstentions

RESOLVED:

That full planning permission be approved, subject to the following conditions:

N.B. Councillor Sid Dennis returned to the Meeting at 11:28am