Agenda item

To consider the above planning application.

Note: Councillor D Marren arrived during consideration of this item but did not take part in the debate or vote.

Note: Parish Councillor E Ankers (on behalf of Shavington-cum-Gresty Parish Council), Mr W Atteridge (objector) and Mr P Robinson (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, a written update and an oral report of the site inspection.

RESOLVED

(a) That, for the reasons set out in the report and the written update, authority be DELEGATED to the Head of Planning (Regulation), in consultation with the Chairman and Vice Chairman of Southern Planning Committee, to APPROVE the application for the reasons set out in the report, subject to:

• further clarification of the education impact

·         completion of a Section 106 Legal Agreement to secure the following:-

1.                                                         A scheme for the provision of 30% affordable housing – 65% to be provided as social rent/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. Contribution of £10,000 towards improvements to the play area at Wessex Close, Shavington

3. A scheme of management of the watercourse

·         the following conditions:-

1.    Standard Time – 3 years

2.    Approved Plans

3.    Details of existing and proposed land levels to be submitted for approval in writing

4.    Materials to be submitted for approval in writing

5.    Boundary Treatment Details to be submitted for approval in writing

6.    The development permitted by this planning permission shall only be carried out in accordance with the principles set out in the submitted Flood Risk Assessment (FRA)

7.    Development shall not begin until an assessment has been carried out into the potential for disposing of surface water by means of a sustainable drainage scheme

8.    No development shall commence on any phase until a scheme for the management of overland flow from surcharging of the site's surface water drainage system during extreme rainfall events within that phase has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

9.    Prior to the commencement of any development, details of the foul drainage scheme shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

10. 2.4m x 120m visibility splays in each direction.

11. Construction Management Plan to include parking provision

12. Landscaping scheme to be submitted – including replacement hedgerow planting and the provision of fruit trees

13. Landscaping to be completed

14. Breeding Birds – Timing of works

15. Breeding Birds – Nesting box provision

16. Hedgehog mitigation measures

17. All arboricultural works shall be carried out in accordance with the Arboricultural Impact Assessment and Method Statement

18. Piling Method Statement

19. Dust Control Measures

20. Contaminated Land

21. Obscure glazing – First Floor window to the side elevation of plot 22

22. Remove Permitted Development Rights for additional windows to the side elevations of plots 5, 7, 19, 22 and 23

(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 Head of Planning (Regulation), 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 the application be subject to an appeal, the following Heads of Terms be secured as part of any S106 Agreement:

1.    A scheme for the provision of 30% affordable housing – 65% to be provided as social rent/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. Contribution of £10,000 towards improvements to the play area at Wessex Close, Shavington