Agenda item

Consideration was given to the above application.

(Councillor R Fletcher, Ward Councillor, Emma Nawoor, representing Hall Drive Action Group (HDAG), Peter Bower, an objector and Rawdon Gascoigne, the agent for the applicant attended the meeting and spoke in respect of the application).

RESOLVED

That for the reasons set out in the report and in the update to Board the application be approved subject to the completion of a Section 106 Agreement securing the following:-

·       33 affordable units (21 rented and 12 intermediate)

o      Type and number of bedrooms to be agreed at reserved matters

o      Affordable units to be tenure blind and pepper potted within the development.

o      no more than 50% of the open market dwellings are to be occupied unless all the affordable housing has been provided, with the exception that the percentage of open market dwellings that can be occupied can be increased to 80% if the affordable housing has a high degree of pepper-potting and the development is phased

o      Housing to be transferred to and managed by a Registered Provider as set out in the defined in the Housing & Regeneration Act 2008

·       LEAP including at least 5 items of equipment. Specification to be submitted to and agree by the Council.

·       Provision for a private residents management company to maintain the on-site amenity space / play area and all incidental areas of open space not within the adopted public highway or domestic curtilages

·        Detailed management plan for the above Open Space be submitted and approved.

·       Highways contribution of £146,000 in mitigation at Hassall Road/ Crewe Road junction and the signal junction in the town centre at Sandbach Road / Crewe Road.

·       Contribution of £206,080 towards education.

And subject to the following conditions:-

1.     Standard Outline

2.     Submission of reserved matters

3.     Plans

4.     Limit number of dwellings to 109

5.     Submission / approval and implementation of programme of archaeological works

6.     Reserved matters to include no development within yellow line on BAE Safeguarding Plan

7.     Development to be of traditional brick / tile construction and of no more than 12m in height

8.     Reserved matters to make provision for development fronting footpaths within site

9.     Submission / approval and implementation of works to improve and enhance footpath no.8 / 10 including upgrading to cycle way and improvements to discourage use of the level crossing to the west of the site and to encourage the use of the safe crossing at the under bridge.

10.Provision of signage within the site for cyclists and pedestrians

11.Piling operations shall be restricted to: Monday – Friday 09:00 – 17:30 hrs Saturday 09:00 – 13:00 hrs Sunday and Public Holidays Nil

12.Submission, approval and implementation of a piling method statement

13.Submission, approval and implementation of an Environmental Management Plan

14.Construction works (and associated deliveries to the site) are restricted to: Monday – Friday 08:00 to 18:00 hrs  Saturday 09:00 to 14:00 hrs Sundays and Public Holidays Nil

15.Any mitigation measures applied must achieve the internal noise levels defined within the “good” standard within BS8233:1999. Habitable rooms within the "Noise Mitigation Zone" marked on plan WYGA083386SK07 dated 18 September 2013 with a south or south west aspect should have a means of ventilation that is alternative to reliance upon open windows. 

16.Submission, approval and implementation of a residential travel plan

17.Provision of Electric Vehicle infrastructure on the properties.

18.Submission and approval of a Phase II investigation shall be carried out and the results submitted to, and approved in writing by, the Local Planning Authority (LPA).

·        If the Phase II investigations indicate that remediation is necessary, then a Remediation Statement to be submitted, and approved

·        If remediation is required, a Site Completion Report to be submitted and approved.

19.Site to be drained on a separate system with only foul drainage connected into the public foul sewerage system. Surface water should discharge directly in to the adjacent watercourse

20.Reserved matters to include no buildings or alteration of existing ground levels within Flood Zone 3

21.Reserved matters to include finished floor levels of proposed buildings  to be set at a minimum of 600mm above the 1 in 100 year (1% AEP) plus climate change flood level,

22.All proposed access roads, parking and pedestrian areas are to be set at a minimum of 300mm above the 1 in 100 year (1% AEP) plus climate change flood level,

23.Submission, approval and implementation of a scheme to limit the surface water runoff

24.The discharge of surface water from the proposed development to mimic that which discharges from the existing site.

25.Submission, approval and implementation of attenuation for discharges above 1% annual probability event, including allowances for climate change

26.Submission, approval and implementation of Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS).

27.Submission, approval and implementation of a scheme to manage the risk of flooding from overland flow of surface water,

28.The site layout to be designed to contain any such flooding within the site, to ensure that existing and new buildings are not affected.

29.Reserved matters to include the provision of an undeveloped buffer zone (at least 8 metres wide), between the banktop of Valley Brook and any built development,

30.Submission, approval and implementation of a scheme for landscaping and management of the buffer zone

31.Submission, approval and implementation of boundary treatment

32.Submission, approval and implementation of ground levels, earthworks and excavations.

33.Tree protection & retention

34.Arboricultural Impact Assessment

35.Arboricultural Method Statement

36.Reserved matters to make provision for buffer zones along railway

37.Retention of hedgerow on western boundary

38.No works in bird nesting season without survey

39.Provision of features for breeding birds

In the event of any chances being needed to the wording of the committee’s decision (such as to delete, vary or addition conditions / informatives / planning obligations or reasons for approval / refusal) prior to the decision being issued, the Planning and Place Shaping Manager, in consultation with the Chair of the Strategic Planning Board is delegated the authority to do so, provided that he does not exceed the substantive nature of the Board’s decision.

(The meeting adjourned for lunch from 12.50pm until 1.30pm.  Councillor J Wray left the meeting and did not return).