Top Yard referred to full council, cafe approved

Three planning applications in Westerleigh ward were debated at today's Development Control (East) committee meeting.

The first was the retrospective application for Top Yard, Westerleigh. The committee voted narrowly to approve the application, but one of the members who had voted against then referred it up to full council. This means that no decision has yet been made and instead the application will be debated and determined at the South Gloucestershire Council meeting that starts at 7pm on Wednesday 18th March in Kingswood Civic Centre.

The second was for a variation to a condition on the Sainsbury’s Local permission. The committee voted to vary the delivery hours condition to allow newspapers be delivered no earlier than 6.45am, which is just before the shop will open each day.

The third was to change the use of the carpet shop on Badminton Road, Coalpit Heath into a cafe and flat. Residents had raised concerns about drainage, operating hours, noise, smell and parking arrangements. The committee approved this application with a clarified condition on odour control.