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Area Planning Committee, First World Cup of Housekeeping Items, for your information, this meeting has been webcast and by entering the room you have consented to being filmed, however if members of the public do not wish to be filmed, you can leave now, oh they all have, yes, the fire exits are located where they usually are, and I'll move on to agenda item number one, apologies for absence, Liz. Thank you chairman, we have apologies from councillor Wallace, however I have not received apologies from councillors Birchley, Fiers or Stannard, and they're not here. Councillor McBean. Yeah chair, I'm aware that councillor Birchley is retiring and tonight is her final Charlesbury Parish Council meeting, so I suspect she will have gone to that, she's worked with the parishioners for many, many decades. Very well, thank you. Item two, any declarations of interest, anybody? We have no declarations of interest, thank you. Gender item three, minutes of the previous meeting held 10th of December, do I have your agreement to sign them? Three. Thank you very much. Both pages are just one. That's two, yes. Lovely, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I'll have that. Nicky Penn as well. Moving on to the applications, there's only one application tonight, PL slash 25 slash 256 slash FA, Lady Mead Grimmshill in Great Missenden. I'm going to hand over now to Mike Shires who's going to introduce this item. Thank you, Mike. Thank you, Chair. So, this application proposes a single storey extension, alterations to a door and a new porch. The application is before you because the applicant is a councillor and the recommendation is to grant conditional permission. So, I'll just take you through the drawings, just as a reminder. So, that's the site location plan, spacious plot and plenty of space between the property and the neighbours. This drawing just shows the location of the extension. So, that's the black coloured area just to the side of the rear of the property, just there. Proposed, well, existing and proposed floor plans. So, the coloured section on the top right is just the proposed extension. Just an enlargement showing it provides utility room, shower room. And then the elevations. So, on the front, that's the only element you can see, just the storm porch roof, no change to the east. And then on the other side elevation, it's just those sections there with the extension and the porch roof. And similarly, on the rear, that's the extension just there. And just to give you a flavour of the character of the area, it's quite a leafy, sort of spacious area. So, just marked in red there is the approximate position of the extension. Thanks. Okay, thanks very much. Any technical questions for Mike? None at all. Okay, so, I think we can move to the open debate. Has anybody got any comments they'd like to make? Okay, well, in that case, I suggest we move to a vote. What's the proposal? Sorry. Councillor Derby. Thank you, Chairman. I mean, we know that the only reason this has come before us is because it's an elected member. I mean, looking at it, I'd like to propose that the application is approved. Thank you very much. So, we've got Councillor McBean to second. Okay, can we have a vote from all the members on the proposal to approve? It's unanimous. Unanimous. That was it. Short and sweet. So, the only thing left on the agenda is the date of the next meeting. But before that, I'd just like to say, as this is the last meeting of this committee in this form, I'd like to thank everybody who's attended, past members and present. It's been great. I've been very honoured myself to be the chairman of it for the last year or so. And I wish everybody well who is standing again as councillors. And thank you all for your diligence and attendance. Councillor Wilson, please. Thank you. I'd just like to say, on behalf of myself and perhaps other committee members, thank you for chairing the committee. And thank you to the officers for some energetic discussions at times. And thank you for steering us through some of the tougher planning applications that come to these committees. Thank you very much. Thank you. And, yes, I would like also to add my thanks to the councillor, to the officers, to Mike in particular, and to Liz. Thank you both. And to my vice chairman, Isabel. Councillor Darby. And also to Legal as well, to Laura Lee and to you, Catherine. Thank you. Thank you. Councillor Wilson beat me to it. I was going to thank you, Chairman. And I think, you know, for everybody who's not going to be around afterwards, enjoy your retirement. And some of us may well enjoy an enforced retirement. Some of us may be better, bloody. Some of you may be, absolutely, yeah. The poison chalice will be passed away. Yeah, so I'm from ten years ago when Isabel first interviewed me to be a councillor. Then I'd like to say thank you very much, everybody, and a very short meeting. Thank you for coming all this way just for 15 minutes. But thanks very much. And the date of the next meeting, Liz, is 10th of June. It's the 10th of June. So I'm looking forward to seeing who's there for that meeting. It's the 10th of June, and it's at 2.30, because the proposal is for east and south to merge, which should happen from May. We are keeping the meeting at 2.30, but that will obviously depend on if anyone's on it. And it will be here or in... And it will be here. Okay, nice. It will be here. Councillor McVeigham. So what's going to happen, because the majority of candidates are actually working people. So, you know, I mean, we've been lucky that our meetings have been at half six, but for some of us who work, it is a stretch to get here for half six. So if we're having them at half two, I mean, you've seen it tonight, we struggle to be core at. How on earth are we going to manage this and be core at having weekday meetings at half two? You know, we can do it for council meetings and the odd one. I will take that back. It will depend on who's on the committee and who the chairman is. The chairman may well change it to half past six, but we will be scheduling them at the moment for half past two, but that could change. And I will take your comments back, Jane. Thank you, Chair. Can I just say that I think that this decision is going to be a decision for the new administration, whoever they may be, and that it will be, you know, all I would say is that for a planning committee to work, you have got to have attendance. It is so important. It is unfair to our residents to have just a few people scraping a quorum. We need a full committee, especially if it is a combined committee with another area. I can see residents saying, well, I don't want those people just as they voted for something and they know nothing about it. So I think it is really important that these meetings are accessible to the members who are put on them. Decision for somebody else on another day. Absolutely. Okay, meeting close. Thank you all very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.