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12/2217C - Former Fisons Site, London Road, Holmes Chapel, CW4 8BE: Reserved Matters Application Pursuant to Outline Planning Permission 11/1682C Proposing Full Details for the Appearance, Landscaping, Layout and Scale for a Residential Development

Meeting: 09/01/2013 - Strategic Planning Board (Item 123)

123 12/2217C - Former Fisons Site, London Road, Holmes Chapel, CW4 8BE: Reserved Matters Application Pursuant to Outline Planning Permission 11/1682C Proposing Full Details for the Appearance, Landscaping, Layout and Scale for a Residential Development Comprising 224 Dwellings, Internal Access Road, Open Space and Landscaping on the Former Fisons Site, Marsh Lane, Holmes Chapel for Bellway Homes Limited & J S Bloor (Wilmslow) Limited pdf icon PDF 754 KB

To consider the above planning application

Minutes:

Consideration was given to the above application.

 

(Mr Conor Vallelly, the agent for the applicant attended the meeting and spoke in respect of the application).

 

RESOLVED

 

That for the reasons in report and in the update report to Board the application be approved subject to a further s106 Agreement, supplemental to the s106 Agreement which accompanied the outline permission. This supplemental agreement shall secure the following:

 

1.    In respect of affordable housing

(a)  30% provision / 67 dwellings comprising

(b)  the 57 x 3-bed houses and 10 x 2-bed houses shown on BHWL125/05

(c)  split by tenure 65:35 i.e. 44 social/affordable rent and 23 shared ownership

(d)  to be completed and transferred to a Registered Provider before more than 50% of the open market dwellings are occupied (within each phase if the development is to be constructed in more than one phase)

(e)  designed to be visually indistinguishable from open market dwellings of similar size within the site and constructed in accordance with the standards proposed to be adopted by the Homes and Communities Agency and achieve at least Code for Sustainable Homes Level 3

(f)   at a price discounted from open market value which will enable the Registered Provider to charge a target/affordable rent for the rented dwellings and to sell/lease the intermediate dwellings as shared ownership

(g)  prioritising the recycling of any affordable subsidy released after exercise of a tenant`s right to acquire rented dwellings or staircasing of shared ownership dwellings for the provision of affordable housing within Holmes Chapel then Cheshire East.

(h)  reserving nomination rights and eligibility criteria based on housing need and  a prioritised local connection cascade for (i) Holmes Chapel (ii) the Congleton Local Area Partnership wards – Dane Valley, Brereton Rural, Sandbach Town, Sandbach Heath and East, Sandbach Ettiley Heath and Wheelock, Sandbach Elworth, Middlewich, Alsager, Odd Rode, Congleton West and Congleton East (iii) Cheshire East

(i)    allowing mortgagee protection clauses for charges of the Registered Provider and, on standard HCA terms, for mortgagees of shared ownership dwellings allowing, with the prior consent of the Strategic Housing Manager, variation of plots and dwelling-types identified, types of intermediate tenures, alternative HCA products, temporary waiver of eligibility criteria on expiry of reasonable timescales, provided that the overall numbers and tenure splits of the affordable housing are retained.

 

 

 

  1. In respect of Public Open Space

 

(a)  Provision of Amenity Greenspace as shown on planning layout drawing no. BHWL125/01 REV E

(b)  2x Locally Equipped Areas of Play

(c)  To be completed and made available for public use in perpetuity in accordance with a specification to be approved by the LPA and transferred to a local residents management company prior to the occupation of 50% of the dwellings for each phase at nominal consideration

(d)  in accordance with a management & maintenance plan / schedule  to be approved by the LPA before being first brought into use

(e)  maintenance and management plan / schedule shall be in force for the lifetime of the  ...  view the full minutes text for item 123