Stow-on-the-Wold Town Council
Stow Youth Centre, Fosseway, Stow-on-the-Wold,
Gloucestershire GL54 1DW
Caroline Doran - Town Clerk
info@stowonthewold-tc.gov.uk
t. 01451 832 585
Minutes
Planning Committee Meeting
(merged Planning and Traffic & Parking Committees)
held on Tuesday 1 October 2015 at 7:00pm
Present
Cllr. Colin Smalley (vice chair)
Cllr. Val Davies
Cllr. Simon Clarke
Cllr. Mike Moseley
Cllr. Jenny Scarsbrook
Cllr. Ben Eddolls
Cllr. Sue Green
Cllr. Alun White
Cllr. Mike Curtis
Cllr. Alana Powell
Kit Ayres
Jack Baggott
Nigel Surman
Rebecca Whitby
Apologies: Andrew Eastabrook
Election of Chair and Vice Chair
As a new committee has been formed by the merger of Planning and Traffic & Parking it was agreed
to vote for a new chair and vice chair.
Chair: CS nominated Alun White. Seconded by BE No other nominations. All in favour.
Vice Chair: AW nominated Mike Moseley. Seconded by SG. No other nominations. All in favour.
Declarations of Interest: None
Minutes: The minutes of the meeting on 15th September 2015 were then approved and signed by the
Vice Chair. All in favour.
Matters arising:
Clerk reported:
 The following responses have been sent to CDC:
15/02976/FUL Flat 1, Mascot House, Digbeth Street – Replace existing windows. Objection
15/02078/FUL electricity sub station Ways End Lower Park Street. Objection
 A-boards had not yet been collected by GCC.
 The stone wall at Windy Ridge is being re-erected.
 CDC enforcement officers are aware of and acting upon information re. appartments being let
in the Unicorn
1. Applications
a) 15/03765/LBC and 15/03735/ADV – The Cotswold Book Shop, The Square – Proposed
replacement signage.
Resolved: No objection. Clerk to ask if there will be a post box and the red Post Office sign.
b) 15/02534/FUL – North Bakery, Church Street – Proposed new shop front and rear extension
including terraced area and fenestration alterations.
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Resolved: Clerk to ask CDC if the fire escape proposals are satisfactory. Copy of query to be
sent to fire service.
c) 15/03438/FUL – Land adjacent to 2 Beech Croft, Oddington Road – Erection of a detached four
bedroom dwelling with associated parking.
Resolved: Objection. Council regard this as a retrospective application and are concerned at
the precedent it will set. Planning conditions had not been adhered to. Whilst there was no
objection to the Bradstone finish the additional height made the building look skinny and despite
the extra height the headroom in the attics was still low.
d) 15/04134/TPO – Newlands Care Home – Evesham T.1 Beech, prune back from building to gain
a 3m clearance, thin out canopy.
Application noted.
2. Neighbourhood Plan – land allocation
A plan showing the green spaces and potential development sites was shown to committee.
This plan will have to be approved by full Council, as the body which submits to plan, before
landowners are consulted.
Members thought that the Stow Ag site should simply be referred to as a potential employment
site.
3. SHLAA meeting. Stow Fair Site.
10th November 2015, 9.00 a.m. at CDC. Colin Smalley to attend and to ask CDC to remove the
Bovis site and the S57 site between Stow and Maugersbury from the plan and to correct the
reference to King Georges Field.
4. Traffic Restriction Orders
Resolved To send the List attached to be sent to Bob Skillern, GCC Highways.
Proposed MC, Seconded Ben Eddolls. All in favour.
5. Highways Maintenance Work (small jobs)
Resolved To send the List attached to be sent to Bob Skillern, Highways.
Proposed AW, Seconded Ben Eddolls. All in favour.
AOB
14/00188/FUL Agricultural Services Lower Swell Road NEW DETAILS apartments; provision of
communal facilities, landscaping and car parking
Resolved: Clerk to send objection, reiterating previous concerns and add point about protecting the
aged balance of the town following approval of the ECV care home site.
Square Improvements.
GCC have sent through new drawings. These have not taken into consideration the wishes expressed
by Stow Town Council. Clerk to ask for the drawings to be amended.
Date of next meeting Thursday 20th October 2015 7.00pm
Signed …………………………….……………….
Alun White - Chair of Planning
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Suggestions for TROs
1. Double yellow lines:
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Parsons Corner
Camp Garden entrance
Queen Henrietta, Well Lane
Entrance to Well Lane
Church Street by the Borzoi and Church
Kings Arms
Digbeth Street
Spring Gardens leading to the cemetery
Back Ends
Bell Inn (faded patch)
St Edwards Drive
Opposite BP garage
Box junctions at the 3 traffic lights on the Fosse. The Evesham Road Box to
extend to the join the existing box at the top of the High Street.
Weight Limit - Digbeth Street
Enforceable disabled spaces in the Square and Back Walls
Parking bays in front of the Unicorn – Post Office
Bollards – either side of and opposite the BP garage
Remove access only sign on Wraggs Row
A space for the district nurses close to the chemist
Pavement build out at entrance to Well Lane / bottom of Digbeth Street
Remove redundant yellow lines on High Street from Police Station to entrance to
square.
10. Speed restrictions
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20mph zone in the square
Move 30 mph and 40mph signs on Stow Hill further south
20mph limit on Oddington Road (school children)
30mph limit on Maugersbury Road
Highway Maintenance Work (small jobs)
a) Well Lane - Legion to Surgery. Roadside edges being undermined by rain flow
leading to undermining of the Tarmac (usually hidden by parked cars).
b) Remove vegetation from around base of Stow signs at the bottom of Stow Hill and
Tewkesbury Road.
c) Cut back bushes adjacent to the entrance to the Cricket Field opposite the youth
centre.
d) Cut back overhanging bushes by Majestic
e) Reset the bollards in Church Street and Digbeth Street
f)
Cut Oddington Road Verge
g) Clean road signs
h) Crown lift tree near Dr Surgery
i)
Repaint yellow line near the Bell Inn and Disabled parking bays in Back Walls
j)
Bollards on verges by BP garage
k) Cut back bushes overhanging pavement between Union St. and St Edwards Drive
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