210644/REG3 - New playground with reinstatement of existing playground back to informal parkland. 

210745/LBC - Listed Building Consent for new playground with reinstatement of existing playground back to informal parkland at Prospect Park a Grade II Registered Park and Garden. 

The Executive Director for Economic Growth and Neighbourhood Services submitted a report on the above applications.  An update report was tabled at the meeting which gave details of further information received from Berkshire Archaeology and Berkshire Gardens Trust and information about the existing playground area.

Comments were received and considered.

Resolved –   

(1)      That, pursuant to Regulation 3 of the Town and Country Planning General Regulations 1992, planning permission 210644/REG3 be authorised, subject to the conditions and informatives as recommended;

(2)      That listed building consent 210745/LBC be granted, subject to the conditions and informatives as recommended, with the materials condition amended to require details of the installation of the play equipment to be submitted alongside the materials to ensure that there was no significant excavation, and the landscaping condition amended to require the two replacement trees to be located close to the playground to provide future shade.

(Councillors Rowland and Stanford-Beale declared interests in the above application.  Nature of interests: Councillor Rowland was the Lead Councillor for Culture, Heritage & Recreation.  She addressed the meeting on the application but abstained in the decision; Councillor Stanford-Beale had been involved in the Playground Design Group.  She addressed the meeting on the application but abstained in the decision.)