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11/1682C-Outline Application Including Means of Access for Up to 231 Residential Units, Local Needs Retail Foodstore (A1), Commercial Development Comprising B1(a) Offices, B1(c) Light Industrial, Medical Facility (D1), Care Home (C2) and Children's D

Meeting: 17/08/2011 - Strategic Planning Board (Item 38)

38 11/1682C-Outline Application Including Means of Access for Up to 231 Residential Units, Local Needs Retail Foodstore (A1), Commercial Development Comprising B1(a) Offices, B1(c) Light Industrial, Medical Facility (D1), Care Home (C2) and Children's Day Care Facility (D1), Part Retention of the Former Fisons Building (frontage), demolition of rear wings and Change of Use to Public House (A4), Restaurant (A3), Care Home (C2) and Hotel (C1) in addition to Provision of Public Open Space, Landscaping pdf icon PDF 761 KB

To consider the above application.

Minutes:

Consideration was given to the above application.

 

(Councillor L Gilbert, the Ward Councillor and Mr Barton, the agent for the applicant attended the meeting and spoke in respect of the application).

 

RESOLVED

 

That the application be approved subject to the completion of a S106 Agreement comprising of the following Heads of Terms:-

 

1.    Affordable housing provision of 30% - to be provided on site.  The housing is to be provided based on 65% social rented and 35% intermediate tenure, and to be provided in a variety of unit sizes to meet local requirements, in accordance with the scheme to be agreed at the Reserved Matters stage.  The affordable housing to be ‘tenure blind’ and pepper potted throughout the site, subject to RSL operational requirements.

 

2.    The following contributions:-

 

£25,000 for the provision of two bus stops on the A54 Marsh Lane.

£15,000 for revisions to local traffic management orders.

£10,000 for use by Cheshire East Council in producing additional traffic assessments related to local traffic issues and for the production and provision of local improvements to traffic management within the village highway infrastructure.

£5,000 to fund monitoring of the Travel Plan in the first five years after the date of its commencement.

 

3.    Provision for public open space to serve the whole of the development to be agreed with the Council when details of layout are submitted for approval. This must secure the provision and future management of children’s play areas and amenity greenspace in accordance with quantitative and qualitative standards contained in the Council’s policy documents including the Congleton Borough Local Plan First Review SPG1 and it’s Interim Policy Note for the Provision of Public Open Space 2008. Submitted details must include the location, grading, drainage, layout, landscape, fencing, seeding and planting of the proposed public open space, transfer to and future maintenance by a private management company.

 

And subject to the following conditions:-

1.    Standard outline

2.    Submission of reserved matters

3.    Approved Plans – location and zoning including retention of front part of former Fisons building

4.    Submission / approval / implementation of a scheme for phasing and timescales for development works

5.    Before any phase of development hereby permitted is commenced, full details of all reserved matters relating to that phase (layout, scale, external appearance of the buildings and the landscaping of the site) shall be submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority.

6.    The employment units hereby permitted as illustrated on the Illustrative Colour Site Masterplan 10080-PL-110 and labelled 'B1(c) light industrial/ B1(a) offices' shall be constructed for either office (B1a) or light industrial use (B1c) or as a combination of B1(a) offices and B1(c) light industrial, to be confirmed through the submission of reserved matters applications. The combined total floorspace for the identified employment units shall not exceed 5560m²

7.    Notwithstanding detail shown – indicative masterplan to be amended to show retention/management of area of woodland by River Croco

8.    Any reserved matters application to be supported by an up  ...  view the full minutes text for item 38