37 Update following the refusal of planning application 12/4872C-Land off Sandbach Road North, Alsager
To consider the above report.
Minutes:
(During consideration of the item, Councillor D Newton left the meeting and returned and therefore did not vote on the application).
Consideration was given to the above report.
RESOLVED
That for the reasons set out in the report and in the oral update to Board reasons for refusal 2 (Highways), 3 (Protected Species) and 5 (Hedgerow Regulations Assessment) be withdrawn and that the Planning and Place Shaping Manager be instructed not to contest these reasons for refusal at the forthcoming Public Inquiry.
The Heads of Terms for a S106 Agreement shall include a highways contribution of £100,000 towards highway works within the vicinity of the site (if this sum has not been spent in a period of 15 years it shall be repaid by the Council to the person who paid the sum).
That authority be delegated to the Planning and Place Shaping Manager in consultation with the Chairman of Strategic Planning Board to consider any further information which may be submitted in relation to Reason for Refusal 4 (Contaminated Land) and to determine whether or not to contest this reason for refusal at the forthcoming Public Inquiry.
(The meeting adjourned for lunch at 1.10pm and reconvened at 1.50pm).