Agenda item

To consider the above application.

Consideration was given to the above application.

(Councillor S Davies, the Ward Councillor and Kate Fitzgerald, representing the applicant attended the meeting and spoke in respect of the application).

RESOLVED

That for the reasons set out in the report and in a verbal update to the Board the application be approved subject to the completion of a Section 106 Legal Agreement securing 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. Provision of Public Open Space and an outdoor fitness area (12 pieces of equipment) to be maintained by a private management company in perpetuity

3. Secondary School Education Contribution of £163,426.90

And subject to the following conditions:-

1.         Standard Outline

2.         Submission of Reserved Matters – Landscaping to include a landscape belt along the road frontage

3.         Time limit for submission of reserved matters

4.         Approved Plans

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

6.         Contaminated land

7.         Construction Management Plan for the construction phase of development

8.         Dust Control

9.         Compliance with the submitted Flood Risk Assessment

10.       Undeveloped buffer of 8 metres along the River Weaver

11.       Submission of a surface water drainage scheme

12.       Submission of a scheme of management of overland flow

13.       Reserved matters allocation to be supported by an updated badger survey and mitigation method statement.

14.       Submission of detailed proposals for the creation of species rich grassland within the country park area which includes the results of soil resting to identify current nutrient levels.

15.       Submission of detailed habitat management proposals.

16.       The reserved matters application to include replacement hedgerow planting

17.       Reserved matters application to include an Arboricultural Impact Assessment

18.       No development shall take place within the application area until the applicant, or their agents or successors in title, has agreed a programme of archaeological mitigation in accordance with a written scheme of investigation which has been submitted by the applicant and approved in writing by the local planning authority. The work shall be carried out strictly in accordance with the approved scheme.

In order to give proper effect to the Board`s intentions and without changing the substance of the decision, authority is delegated to the Head of Planning (Regulation) in consultation with the Chairman (or in his absence the Vice Chairman) of the Strategic Planning Board, to correct any technical slip or omission in the wording of the resolution, between approval of the minutes and issue of the decision notice.

Should the application be subject to an appeal, the following Heads of Terms should 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. Provision of Public Open Space and an outdoor fitness area (12 pieces of equipment) to be maintained by a private management company

3. Secondary School Education Contribution of £163,426.90