Agenda item

To consider the above planning application.

Note: Prior to consideration of this application, the meeting was adjourned for ten minutes for a break.

Note: Councillors P Groves and M Martin left the meeting prior to consideration of this application.

Note: Having made a declaration, Councillor D Bebbington withdrew from the meeting during consideration of this item.

Note: Councillor J Hammond (Ward Councillor), Parish Councillor R Hovey (on behalf of Haslington Parish Council) and Mr I Pleasant (on behalf of the applicant) attended the meeting and addressed the Committee on this matter.

The Committee considered a report regarding the above planning application.

RESOLVED

(a)   That the application be REFUSED for the following reason:

The proposed residential development is unsustainable because it is located within the Open Countryside, contrary to Policy NE.2 (Open Countryside) and Policy RES.5 (Housing in the Open Countryside) of the Borough of Crewe and Nantwich Replacement Local Plan, Policy PG 5 of the Cheshire East Local Plan Strategy – Submission Version and the principles of the National Planning Policy Framework and create harm to interests of acknowledged importance. The Local Planning Authority can demonstrate a 5 year supply of housing land in accordance with the National Planning Policy Framework. As such the application is also contrary to the emerging Development Strategy. Consequently, there are no material circumstances to indicate that permission should be granted contrary to the development plan.

(b) That, in order to give proper effect to the Committee’s intentions and without changing the substance of the decision, authority be delegated to the Principal Planning Manager, in consultation with the Chairman (or in her absence the Vice Chairman) of Southern Planning Committee, to correct any technical slip or omission in the wording of the resolution, between approval of the minutes and issue of the decision notice.

(c) That, should this application be the subject of an appeal, authority be delegated to the Principal Planning Manager in consultation with the Chairman of the Southern Planning Committee to enter into a planning agreement in accordance with the S106 Town and Country Planning Act to secure the Heads of Terms for a S106 Agreement, as follows:

1. A scheme for 30% affordable housing – 65% of the affordable dwellings to be provided as social/affordable rent with 35% intermediate tenure. The scheme shall include:

The numbers, type, tenure and location on the site of the affordable housing provision

The timing of the construction of the affordable housing and its phasing in relation to the occupancy of the market housing

The arrangements for the transfer of the affordable housing to an affordable housing provider or the management of the affordable housing if no Registered Social Landlord is involved

The arrangements to ensure that such provision is affordable for both first and subsequent occupiers of the affordable housing; and

The occupancy criteria to be used for determining the identity of occupiers of the affordable housing and the means by which such occupancy criteria shall be enforced.

2.     A commuted payment of £32,539 will be required towards primary education and £32,685 towards secondary education.