Agenda item

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.

2. 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 development together with transfer to the local residents management company of any other areas preserved as private open space, managed & maintained subject to M&M plan

(f)   With reference to the play equipment contained within the Landscape Specification (LDS217-LS) LEAP 2 shall include extra DDA inclusive equipment (unless any variation if first agreed

                                          i.    Roleplay – Play Train replace with Inclusive roundabout

                                        ii.    Climbers & Nets – Scramble net replace with Single Mast Activity Net

And subject to the following conditions:-

1.    Standard

2.    Approval for reserved matters relates only to Plots A & B (residential element of outline approval 11/1682C)

3.    Approved Plans / amended plans

4.    Notwithstanding detail shown – landscaping scheme to be submitted to show retention/management of area of woodland to south of site, retention of hedgerow along south-eastern boundary and supplementary planting along Marsh Lane frontage

5.    Implementation of Landscaping Scheme

6.    Retention of trees and hedgerows

7.    Submission of Arboricultural Impact Assessment

8.    Submission of Arboricultural Method Statement

9.    Submission of Comprehensive tree protection measures

10.Materials to be submitted inc hard-landscaping and surfacing

11.Recommendations and mitigation within submitted Protected Species survey to be carried out

12.Breeding birds survey

13.Further contaminated land investigations / mitigation for Plot B (western portion of site)

14.Detailed design and construction drawings for the proposed access junction, related carriageway widening and footway provision and mini roundabout. Delivered prior to first occupation

15.Submission of Environmental Management Plan

16.Submission of existing and proposed levels survey

17.Removal of Permitted Development Rights Classes A-E on selected plots

18.Removal of Permitted Development Rights for openings including obscured glazing requirement on selected plots

19.A scheme for the storage of refuse bins to be submitted

20.No Ash trees to be planted on the mounding close to Marsh Lane

21.No construction parking to take place on Marsh Lane

22.Detailed drawings showing the following alterations to the scheme shall be submitted to and approved by the local planning authority before any work is commenced on site:

A roundabout and spur accessing the site or suitable practical alternative.

This part of the development shall only be completed in accordance with alterations thus approved.

(Prior to consideration of the following application, Councillors C Thorley and J Wray left the meeting and did not return).