12 News TWO requests made by county
councillors to call-in planning applications to the planning committee are to be heard this morning (Friday) by the authority’s Planning Delegation Panel.
The ad-hoc panel meets only when applications are submitted by councillors wishing to remove planning applications from the scheme of delegation - which are determined by officers, and bring them to the Planning and Rights of Way Committee - which are decided by councillors. Councillor David Howlett who the Wiston
represents ward has
applied to call-in an application on a plot of land in Spittal. Cllr Howlett says that the environmental consequences of the application at the site of the former Golden Hill Garage are potentially important. In his supporting statement the Conservative representative also states: “the weight of comments made by the Planning Inspectorate on a very similar application should be heard in a public arena”. The council’s Director of Development, Dr Steven Jones disagrees with Cllr Howlett that the application should go to the planning committee and would rather it stays in the hands of his officers for determination, under his delegated powers and recommends councillors of
the Planning Delegation Panel
to refuse Cllr Howlett’s request to allow the application to go to the committee.
In his recommendation, Dr Jones says: “the application does not raise demonstrable issues that could be
considered as meeting the relevant criteria for referral to the Planning and Rights of Way Committee”. Dr Jones also wants another
councillor’s call-in request to be rejected by councillors at this morning’s meeting. East Williamston representative Cllr Jacob Williams has made a request to call in an application at the former Pentlepoir School site which the council sold last year to a private developer. In his call-in request Cllr Williams says that he has been approached by constituents with great concerns about drainage matters and part of the plans which has the potential for overlooking. Cllr Williams says he shares their concerns which would see dominant houses close to
the
border of the school’s former playing field adjoining a previously existing cul-de-sac of detached bungalows, and believes this could raise privacy and overshadowing issues. Cllr Williams also refers to a “perceived lack of consistency with the council’s approach” to the site which the authority allowed to “languish in a state of disrepair for
years”, and says: “a public
examination of this application by the planning committee will go some way in reassuring my community that their views - which do not oppose the fundamental idea of the site being developed - are going to be listened to and considered, and that they will be seen to be”. Cllr Williams
had originally
asked Dr Jones if he would call in the application under his own delegation but Dr Jones refused to do so, and now also recommends the application not to go to committee,
Director of Development: Dr Steven Jones.
saying that he considers “there are no grounds for the application being considered by the committee”. The final decision over whether the two applications will be allowed to be heard by the planning committee will be made by the small panel of four Councillors: Reg Owens, Rob Summons and Tom Richards, all of the ruling Independent Plus Group, and Councillor Paul
Miller, the
Leader of the Labour Group. Both Cllrs Howlett and Williams are able to attend the meetings and argue their cases but are not allowed to vote, similarly the Chairman of the planning committee, Cllr Myles Pepper, is also able to attend and address the panel if he wishes, but cannot vote.
A HAVERFORDWEST
cannabis smoker pleaded guilty to two offences before Haverfordwest Magistrates on Tuesday (Jan 27). Guy Lee Riddiford, of Winch
Lane was in possession of two joints and 0.4 grams of cannabis when police arrested him at his previous address. The 32 year old co-operated fully with the police, saying he had bought the cannabis after over hearing a dealer talk about it on a bus. Defence solicitor Johnathan Webb
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Double ‘no’ from Dr Jones Spliff smoker fined
said: “Mr Riddiford is now a rare user, who has been suffering with a lot on his plate. He did used to have a mild cannabis addiction, but has through hard work cut down his use.” The Magistrates fined Riddiford
£75, court charges of £85 and a victim surcharge of £20. A destruction order was also issued for the joints and the cannabis. Riddiford, who is currently serving a community order, will have his drug use addressed in the time remaining in his community order.
Dangerous dog charge A LETTERSTON woman
appeared in Haverfordwest Magistrates’ Court facing two charges of failing to comply with section 2 of the Dogs Act by not keeping a dog under proper control. Teresa Carlisle, 63, of St Nicholas, pleaded not guilty to both charges. The court heard that on August 16, a young boy, aged eleven was
walking on a public footpath, when the defendant’s dog - a brown Staffordshire cross terrier - started to run at him. In an attempt to get away, he fell over and injured his knee. The defence lawyer said: “This was an indirect minor injury.” Carlisle elected that her case be heard at Swansea Crown Court.
14% fall in reported crime
LATEST figures from the independent Office for National Statistics show that since 2010 recorded crime in Dyfed-Powys has fallen by 14 %. Simon Hart MP said: “Thanks to
the hard work of Dyfed-Powys police officers recorded crime is down a significant amount and families are safer. This has not been an easy time for the police, so these results are especially welcome.”
First crime of the New Year
involved in a road traffic collision whilst drunk pleaded driving
whilst intoxicated Clicketts, Tenby
A NEW YEARS EVE party goer guilty
to before
Haverfordwest Magistrates. Lauren Morton, aged 28, of The stood before
the
Magistrates after she had crashed her Seat Arosa into a minibus and a lamp post.
Ellie Morgan, prosecuting said:
“On January 1, Miss Morton had been out in Tenby celebrating the New Year, when she attempted to drive home along Park Road. She collided with a mini bus and a lamp post, causing damage. The air bag had deployed in her car, and she was breathalysed by
police officers, with the result being 90 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, with the limit being 35 micrograms. The defendant told police she had been drinking, and asked ‘Will I go to jail for this?’.” Defending Morton was Jonathan
Webb who said this was his defendants first time before the court, and had a clean license. He added that she was a
‘hardworking, industrious single
mother, who pleaded guilty at the earliest opportunity’. Magistrates fined Morton £335, £85 court costs and a victim surcharge of £34. She was also disqualified from driving for 25 months, but accepted a drink-driving rehabilitation course.
Holidaymaker disqualified A WOMAN on holiday in
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01437 720829 City Inn • New Street, St Davids
Pembrokeshire pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of alcohol at Haverfordwest Magistrates’ Court. Helen Margaret Morgan, of Maes
Glas, Llandovery was staying at Kiln Park, Tenby. The 51 year old had been drinking at the caravan, before being asked to drive her friends Alfa Romeo Mito into Tenby. Ellie Morgan, prosecuting said: “A mobile police patrol noticed an Alfa Romeo Mito driving very hesitantly,
before turning off without indicating. Morgan was pulled over by the police, where officers smelt alcohol. Morgan was breathalysed, and gave a reading of 68 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, where the legal limit is 35 micrograms.” Haverfordwest
disqualified Morgan from driving for 20 months. She accepted the offer of a drink driving rehabilitation course. Morgan was also fined £110, court costs of £85 and a victim surcharge of £20.
Magistrates’
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