Agenda item

To consider the above application.

The Board considered a report regarding the above application.

(Councillor G Williams (Ward Member), Councillor A Morrison (on behalf of Congleton Town Council, Mr P Minshull (Objector) and Mr B Pycroft (agent) attended the meeting and spoke in respect of the application).

RESOLVED

That for the reasons set out in the report the application be APPROVED subject to the completion of a Section 106 legal agreement to secure:

• Affordable Housing comprising 30% (65% of which will be for social / affordable rent and 35% for shared ownership / intermediate tenure)
• Education contributions of £173,540 (primary) £196,112 (secondary) and £136,500 (Special Educational Needs) = total of £506,112
• Highways contributions of £3,000 per dwelling towards the A34 online improvements or the Link Road
• Public Open Space
  • Amenity Greenspace £66,977
  • Children and Young Persons Play Provision £169,070
  • Provision of a NEAP (8 items of play equipment)
  • 5,664 square metres of onsite Amenity Greenspace
• Macclesfield Canal Towpath contributions of £176,000
• PROW contributions of £17,065
• Public Realm contributions of £15,500
• Improvement to 2no. bus stops – contributions of £24,000
• TRO (30 mph consultation) £6000
• Provision of a controlled crossing

And the following conditions:

1.            Standard Outline Time limit – 3 years

2.            Submission of Reserved Matters

3.            Accordance with Approved Plans

4.            Access to constructed in accordance with approved plan prior to first occupation

5.            Submission of an Environmental Management Plan (incl dust control)

6.            Noise mitigation to be submitted with reserved matters

7.            Submission of a travel plan

8.            Provision of electric vehicle infrastructure (charging points)

9.            Submission of contaminated land survey

10.         Details of drainage to be submitted

11.         Only foul drainage to be connected to sewer

12.         Details of pile driving operations to be submitted

13.         Retention of important trees and hedgerows

14.         Tree and hedgerow protection measures

15.         Arboricultural Specification/Method statement

16.         Timing of the works and details of mitigation measures to ensure that the development would not have a detrimental impact upon breeding birds.

17.         Reserved matters application to include details for the provision of an additional pond

18.         Reserved matters application to be supported by updated badger survey and mitigation strategy

19.         Updated barn owl mitigation strategy to be submitted with any future reserved matters application

20.         Detailed lighting scheme to be submitted in support any future reserved matters application.

21.         Provision of 20m buffer zone adjacent to the canal.

22.         Provision of minimum 30m buffer adjacent to woodland in accordance with submitted parameters plan.

23.         Provision of gaps in garden and boundary fencing to allow movement of hedgehogs.

24.         Development to be carried out in accordance with in accordance with the recommendations of paragraph 5.17 of the submitted phase one survey report prepared by CES Ecology.

25.         Reserved matters application to be supported by a method statement for the eradication of invasive non-native plant species.

26.         Bin Storage

27.         Construction Management Plan (to include a timetable for the installation of utilities/services/sewers and how long roads are to be closed)

In the event of any changes being needed to the wording of the Committee’s decision (such as to delete, vary or add conditions/informatives/planning obligations or reasons for approval/refusal) prior to the decision being issued, the Head of Planning (Regulation) has delegated authority to do so in consultation with the Chairman of the Strategic Planning Board, provided that the changes do not exceed the substantive nature of the Committee’s decision.

Should this application be the subject of an appeal, authority be delegated to the Head of Planning (Regulation) in consultation with the Chairman of the Strategic Planning Board 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.

(Note: Councillors S Gardiner and B Burkhill asked for their votes against this application to be recorded in the minutes)

Following consideration of this application the meeting adjourned for lunch from 12.30 pm to 13.00 pm.