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1 Balmer, Chris From: Jonathan Sutherland [email protected] Sent: 25 June 2020 09:33 To: Balmer, Chris Subject: RE: Change of use application for Mountain View Caution: This email is from an external sender. Please take care before opening any attachments or following any links. Hi Chris

We’d like to be able to allow non-workers to use the café across the whole of the ground floor.

Thanks for your help.

Regards

Jonathan

From: Balmer, Chris [email protected] Sent: 25 June 2020 09:24 To: Jonathan Sutherland [email protected] Subject: RE: Change of use application for Mountain View

Hi Jonathan

Thank your for your email. The below all seems to be reasonable so I will change my report accordingly. The application is due to go to the next Planning Committee which I understand to be the 13 July.

In terms of the Building referred as “Babbages” and the use for food and drink, was the permission sought to allow non-workers on the site to visit the existing café? Is it only the existing café area which you are wanting for the food and drink or the entire ground floor? KIND REGARDS CHRIS ANY VIEWS EXPRESSED IN THIS EMAIL ARE THOSE OF THE OFFICER ONLY AND ARE WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO ANY FORMAL DECISION MADE UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1999 AND ANY RELEVANT SECONDARY LEGISLATION. PLEASE BE AWARE THAT SHOULD THE CONTENT OF THIS EMAIL BE MATERIALLY RELEVANT TO A PLANNING APPLICATION, ITS CONTENT MAY BE PUBLISHED AS DETAIL RELEVANT TO THE FORMAL ASSESSMENT OF THE APPLICATION. PUBLICATION WILL INCLUDE AVAILABILITY VIA ONLINE SERVICES.

From: Jonathan Sutherland [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 24 June 2020 15:43 To: Balmer, Chris Subject: Change of use application for Mountain View Importance: High

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Caution: This email is from an external sender. Please take care before opening any attachments or following any links. Good afternoon Chris

Thanks for your email. Please see my responses as highlighted below.

I trust this is all in order but should you have any queries or require any further information then please don’t hesitate to come back to me.

Regards

Jonathan Sutherland Properties Manager ZipAddress Limited t. 01624 811711 e. [email protected] w. www.mvic.im

From: Balmer, Chris [email protected] Sent: 19 June 2020 10:04 To: Jonathan Sutherland [email protected] Subject: RE: Change of use application for Mountain View

Dear Jonathan

As mentioned previously I have concern with the application as it stand; given the very wide range of uses proposed, throughout the site; which essentially if approved, the site could become a storage and distribution centre for a large company (supermarket etc). I note the Commissioners have raised concern of Class 6 in relation to HGV’s which I would agree with (site previous refused on this issue). At the moment I believe the range of what could be used is too great. While I appreciate from our discussions you are unlikely to undertake such development, the issue we have is any permission runs with the land and not the person/company making the application.

Having considered this, we do not feel that adding storage and distribution as a class is necessary for us to move forward with the application and so on that basis we would be happy to effectively withdraw that request or be prepared to accept its refusal at committee.

I have outlined the current uses and the proposed uses below and what could result – with the issue of the storage and distribution, especially in the larger buildings be relevant also:

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3 Main Film Studio Building Current Uses – Sound Stage, Community, exhibition conference, events, meeting area and training centre. With the exception of the sound stage (filming), the remaining uses are condition to be at certain hours of the day and limits the days throughout the year such uses can occur (please see history section of this report to see conditions listed).

Proposed additional uses – Food & Drink; Light industry and Research & Development (excluding light industrial); and Storage or distribution. In relation to food and drink this essential would mean we would be given the entire building to be a restaurant, which would likely raise a concern. Is this what you want or did you include it for other reasons? For example the events you have i.e. wedding/corporate events you would likely be able to serve food/drink anyway and wouldn’t need a “Food & Drink” permission, if that makes sense? We have included food and drink provision in the Studio building for completeness and to make the events areas on the site more cohesive. As it is not our intention nor in the plan to use that space as a standalone restaurant or café but rather to facilitate events, which is covered in our current permissions, we would again be happy to effectively withdraw this element of the application or accept refusal at committee.

Building referred as “Babbages” which is to the north and attached to the main film studio building. Current Uses - At ground floor level - Community, exhibition, conference, events, meeting area and training centre. Further small individual offices (current leased to small individual business) and the café/kitchen area (former canteen) which currently only serves employees on-site. At first floor level there are two rooms, one used as the original hair, make up and laundry and the second used as a conference, meeting area and training room.

Proposed additional uses – Food and drink, financial and professional services, offices at ground floor and at first floor financial and professional services and offices. – Again same issue with the food and drink, what is it you are hoping to achieve for this use? Whilst we can understand your concerns with the Studio building being designated for food and drink, we are struggling to understand your concerns with the Babbage’s building having permissions for such. I think for us to be able to adequately explain we need to understand what your concerns are with this specifically.

Existing two storey office block with attached small sound stage/workshop. Current Uses - At Ground floor and first floor the office building is used as offices, varying in open plan and individual rooms which are again lease to individual companies as well as the applicants own company, although form visiting the site this appears to be the office at first floor level. We note you have said ‘appears to be the office at first floor level’ and feel it would be remiss of us not to clarify that your assumption is incorrect. Both floors of this building are used as offices for our Company.

The small sound stage/workshop building which is an open plan single floored building which can be used as a sound stage/workshop, but also as an exhibition, events, meeting and training room.

Proposed additional uses – For the current office building and the small sound stage/workshop building it is proposed for the following additional uses; financial and professional services, office, Research & Development, and Storage or distribution. Same issue with Storage and distribution. Again, whilst we understand your concerns regarding the large studio building in relation to class 6 due to the scale and capacity of the Studio building, we do not understand the reluctance with regards the small sound stage / workshop building. Due to the size of the area, it is inconceivable that it would be utilised for anything on the scale you are suggesting. Any storage and distribution would be on a much smaller scale.

While some of the uses (Research & Development & financial and professional services) you are seeking I think are fine, I think the storage and distribution is an issue, namely to the potential of the size of the larger building and/if they were combined have the potential to raise concern and would also result possibly in HGVs

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4 to the site, which has previously been refused on this site. Again the Food and Drink (i.e. Restaurants) I am unsure if this is what you really want?

I would be grateful for your comments on the above, before I finish my report. KIND REGARDS CHRIS ANY VIEWS EXPRESSED IN THIS EMAIL ARE THOSE OF THE OFFICER ONLY AND ARE WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO ANY FORMAL DECISION MADE UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1999 AND ANY RELEVANT SECONDARY LEGISLATION. PLEASE BE AWARE THAT SHOULD THE CONTENT OF THIS EMAIL BE MATERIALLY RELEVANT TO A PLANNING APPLICATION, ITS CONTENT MAY BE PUBLISHED AS DETAIL RELEVANT TO THE FORMAL ASSESSMENT OF THE APPLICATION. PUBLICATION WILL INCLUDE AVAILABILITY VIA ONLINE SERVICES.

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From: Balmer, Chris Sent: 11 June 2020 14:38 To: 'Jonathan Sutherland' Subject: RE: Change of use application for Mountain View

Dear Jonathan

Thank you for your email.

I have forwarded your request to make a complaint to my colleague Jo Callow who should be in contact with you soon to outline the process.

In terms of the application I am afraid there is currently delays in more complex applications, as I have a significant backlog of this type application (some much older than this one) which I have been concentrating on. I would say your proposal is not straight forward and I do have concerns of the number of uses and potential of impacts they may have. I will prepare my report next week.

KIND REGARDS CHRIS

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5 ANY VIEWS EXPRESSED IN THIS EMAIL ARE THOSE OF THE OFFICER ONLY AND ARE WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO ANY FORMAL DECISION MADE UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1999 AND ANY RELEVANT SECONDARY LEGISLATION. PLEASE BE AWARE THAT SHOULD THE CONTENT OF THIS EMAIL BE MATERIALLY RELEVANT TO A PLANNING APPLICATION, ITS CONTENT MAY BE PUBLISHED AS DETAIL RELEVANT TO THE FORMAL ASSESSMENT OF THE APPLICATION. PUBLICATION WILL INCLUDE AVAILABILITY VIA ONLINE SERVICES.

From: Jonathan Sutherland [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 11 June 2020 14:25 To: Balmer, Chris Subject: RE: Change of use application for Mountain View Importance: High

Caution: This email is from an external sender. Please take care before opening any attachments or following any links. Hi Chris,

I haven’t received any further update from you regarding the progress of our Change of Use application (19/01449/C) since your email below of 13th May. Could you please advise on the following points as a matter of some urgency:

1. Has your report has now been completed?
2. Will the application be submitted to the Committee for the July meetings?

It is extremely disappointing that it has been over 23 weeks since the application was first submitted and it appears like nothing has happened? As you can imagine this is incredibly frustrating for us, as a business, to still not know almost 6 months later.

I’d like to have the opportunity to highlight that there has been such a long delay/backlog, and that perhaps the planning department is currently understaffed. Please can you inform me of the official complaints procedure I would need to follow in order to do this by return? This is nothing personal to yourself, I just feel if I don’t highlight this then it will continue to happen.

I thought as there was no objections and only 1 minor comment from the commissioners this application would be fairly straight forward?

Please can you explain how it has taken so long? Is the officers report not something which could have been done during lockdown?

Regards

Jonathan Sutherland Properties Manager ZipAddress Limited t. 01624 811711 e. [email protected] w. www.mvic.im

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From: Balmer, Chris [email protected] Sent: 13 May 2020 13:30 To: Jonathan Sutherland [email protected] Subject: RE: Change of use application for Mountain View

Hi Jonathan,

Apologise for the delay. It will need to go to the PC and the issue is I have a number of older applications before this one, which also needs to go to PC, so I am afraid I have a bot if a backlog. I hope to deal with your application in the next few weeks and then hope to get the application to the next available PC meetings in July. Kind regards Chris ANY VIEWS EXPRESSED IN THIS EMAIL ARE THOSE OF THE OFFICER ONLY AND ARE WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO ANY FORMAL DECISION MADE UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1999 AND ANY RELEVANT SECONDARY LEGISLATION. PLEASE BE AWARE THAT SHOULD THE CONTENT OF THIS EMAIL BE MATERIALLY RELEVANT TO A PLANNING APPLICATION, ITS CONTENT MAY BE PUBLISHED AS DETAIL RELEVANT TO THE FORMAL ASSESSMENT OF THE APPLICATION. PUBLICATION WILL INCLUDE AVAILABILITY VIA ONLINE SERVICES.

From: Jonathan Sutherland [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 13 May 2020 09:56 To: Balmer, Chris Subject: RE: Change of use application for Mountain View

Caution: This email is from an external sender. Please take care before opening any attachments or following any links. Hi Chris,

I’m just following up on our application for Change of Use. Is this able to go to the committee using the temporary way of working or will this need to wait until they can meet in the normal way?

I appreciate you are all doing what you can during these times. I’m not chasing for this, I’m just looking for an idea of timescales.

Regards

Jonathan Sutherland Properties Manager

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From: Balmer, Chris [email protected] Sent: 25 November 2019 09:44 To: Jonathan Sutherland [email protected] Subject: RE: Change of use application for Mountain View

Hi Jonathan,

Thanks for email I was off all last week. Sorry the Government security won’t let us use dropbox.

Kind regards Chris ANY VIEWS EXPRESSED IN THIS EMAIL ARE THOSE OF THE OFFICER ONLY AND ARE WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO ANY FORMAL DECISION MADE UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1999 AND ANY RELEVANT SECONDARY LEGISLATION. PLEASE BE AWARE THAT SHOULD THE CONTENT OF THIS EMAIL BE MATERIALLY RELEVANT TO A PLANNING APPLICATION, ITS CONTENT MAY BE PUBLISHED AS DETAIL RELEVANT TO THE FORMAL ASSESSMENT OF THE APPLICATION. PUBLICATION WILL INCLUDE AVAILABILITY VIA ONLINE SERVICES.

From: Jonathan Sutherland [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 20 November 2019 16:10 To: Balmer, Chris Subject: Change of use application for Mountain View

Caution: This email is from an external sender. Please take care before opening any attachments or following any links. Hi Chris

I’ve completed the application for the change of use but the file is too large to email over. Is it ok to post a copy out for you to check over to ensure I have included everything?

Regards

Jonathan Sutherland ZipAddress Ltd – Properties Manager

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