PLANNING COMMITTEE AGENDA - Hartlepool Borough Council

Planning Committee – 25 th February 2009 4.1
No: 1
Number:
H/2008/0495
Applicant:
Chase Property Developments
Agent:
Savills Mr T Adey Fountain Court 68 Fountain Street
Manchester M2 2FE
Date valid: 03/10/2008
Development: Application to allow additional floorspace to vary the size
of units and extend the range of goods that can be sold
Location:
TEESBAY RETAIL PARK BRENDA ROAD
HARTLEPOOL H ARTLEPOOL
Background
1.1 This application was considered at the January meeting when it was deferred as
a number of matters were outstanding.
The Application and Site
1.2 The application site is an existing retail park located on the west side of
Hartlepool close to the junction of the A689 and Brenda Road. It currently extends to
some 14,676 square metres of floorspace. At the northern and north eastern end of
the park are a range of buildings currently occupied by B & Q, Storey/WalterWall
Carpets, Aldi, Poundstretcher, UK Bowling with the remaining units currently vacant.
At the south western end of the Park is a former filling station and a building
occupied by Halfords. The south east corner of the site is open and undeveloped.
1.3 The park is bounded to the south and east by an area of raised waste ground
which is allocated in the Local Plan for outdoor recreation and sporting development.
To the north is a landscape buffer beyond which passes the A689. To the western
side of the site is a pond and Brenda Road beyond which are commercial premises
on the Usworth Road Industrial Estate a garage, bus depot and a vacant site.
1.4 The site already benefits from extant planning permissions some of which have
been implemented and which are subject to various restrictive conditions. The
application seeks planning permission to remove/vary these various conditions. In
particular to extend the permitted floor space allowed within planning approval
H/2005/5921 by a further 4,537 square meters to 11,017 square metres (restricted
by condition 4). This additional space will be accommodated through altering the
footprint of some units slightly but mainly through the use of mezzanine floors. The
application also seeks to remove planning conditions limiting minimum unit size
(Condition 5 - H/2005/5921) and the range of goods that can be sold (Condition 4-
EZ2/3/OUT/519/85, Condition 2 H/FUL/0619/91, Condition 6-H/2005/5921) on the
site. Instead two new planning conditions are proposed. One limiting floor space for
the sale of food to 8,933 sq metres other than ancillary café, confectionary, hot
snacks or meals. A further proposed condition limits the amount of D2 leisure
floorspace to 2,508 square metres. (It is understood this relates to the existing
Bowling facility). A proposal seeking flexibility to allow three of the units to be
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