Agenda item

To consider the above application.

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 to date badger survey report

9.    Any reserved matters application to be supported by an up to date survey for breeding birds

10.Further contaminated land investigations / mitigation pursuant to condition 5.

11.Reserved matters to be in accordance with scale parameters

12.Detailed design and specification plans for the MOVA upgrades to the A54/A50 traffic signal junction.

13.Provide and install the agreed upgrade to the A54/A50 traffic signal junction.

14.Detailed design and construction drawings for the two proposed access junctions, related carriageway widening and footway provision

15.Provide and construct all works related to the provision of the new site access junctions.

16.Provide detailed design and specification drawings for the PUFFIN crossing installation on the A54 Station Road.

17.Provide and construct all works related to the provision of the new PUFFIN crossing on the A54 Station Road.

18.Provide a system of street lighting on the A54 Marsh Lane along the site frontage.

19.Submit a schedule for, and provide all required adjustments and necessary changes to, the highway signing and lighting related to the off-site highway works.

20.Developer will agree a revised Travel Plan Framework with agreed targets in each of the first five years post development. The TPF will relate specifically to the employment and business dedicated uses within the proposal for each of the reserved matters and provision will be made for improvements to the cycle network linking London Road for the benefit of the whole development.

21.Submission of scheme for protecting the proposed dwellings from railway noise and vibration

22.Submission of a scheme for protecting housing from noise from all the commercial and industrial activities

23.Each reserved matters application for commercial activities to be accompanied by submission and approval of proposed hours of operation

24.Each reserved matters application for commercial activities to be accompanied by a noise impact assessment has been submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority.  Any recommendations within the report shall be implemented prior to the development being brought into first use.

25.Prior to commencement of development of any commercial building scheme for the acoustic enclosure of any fans, compressors or other equipment with the potential to create noise, to be submitted

26.Prior to commencement of development of any commercial building details of any external lighting shall be submitted to and approved

27.Prior to commencement of development of any commercial building details of the specification and design of equipment to extract and disperse cooking odours, fumes or vapours

28.The hours of construction (and associated deliveries to the site) of the development shall be restricted to 08:00 to 18:00 hours on Monday to Friday, 08:00 to 13:00 hours on Saturday, with no work at any other time including Sundays and Public Holidays

29.Details of the method, timing and duration of any pile driving operations to be approved

30.Details of the method, timing and duration of any floor floating operations connected with the construction of the development hereby approved to be approved

31. Submission of scheme to limit the discharge of surface water from the proposed development such that it does not exceed the run-off from the existing site

32.A scheme for the management of overland flow

33.A scheme to dispose of foul and surface water

34.scheme for the provision and management of a buffer zone alongside the watercourses

35.Accordance with Landscape framework

36. Retention of trees and hedgerows

37.Submission of Arboricultural Impact Assessment

38.Submission of Arboricultural Method Statement

39.Submission of Comprehensive tree protection measures

40.No development shall commence, until details of a proposed mini roundabout to be located at the junction where Marsh Lane meets with Manor has first been submitted and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The approved details shall be implemented prior to the first occupation of the first phase of development.

Prior to the end of the meeting, Councillor Wilkinson raised concerns that the agendas for the Board had not included Appeal Summaries.

It was requested that this information be included on future agendas.