Agenda item

To consider the above application.

The Board considered a report and verbal update regarding the above application.

 

(Councillor J Cornell (on behalf of Weston and Basford Parish Council) and Mr H Spawton (Agent) attended the meeting and spoke in respect of the application)

 

RESOLVED

 

That authority be DELEGATED to the Head of Planning (Regulation), in consultation with the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of Strategic Planning Board and in consultation with Ward Members to APPROVE subject to securing the monies required for the cemetery extension and the highways works in relation to a safe walking route to school within the Section 106 Heads of Terms and the associated variation of the Heads of Terms to accommodate these contributions andsubject to the completion of a Section 106 legal agreement to secure:

 

Heads of Terms:

 

• £2,572,000 towards the improvement of Strategic Highways Infrastructure (Crewe Green Corridor and/ or A500 improvements and or Crewe Green Link Road and the A5020 Weston Gate Roundabout improvement)
• £345,000 to support a new bus service to the development; a condition is requested that if the adjacent site is delivered than this would be reduced to £175,000
• £225,000 to deliver pedestrian and cycleway improvements to cross the Crewe Green Link Road, including towards the design and delivery of a new bridge and improvements to Mill Lane to facilitate an effective pedestrian route to and from Weston Village
• £40,000 to contribute towards a scheme of traffic management / calming measures in the Village of Weston.

• £960,000 to primary education
• Provision of 10% affordable housing – subject to review of sales values during the life of the development.
• Provision of public open space to be transferred to a Management Company

·         £3,000 for Barn Owl habitat creation

·         Mechanism to secure access for phase 3

 

And the following conditions:

 

1.    Construction of access

2.    Vehicular visibility at access to be approved

3.    Submission of construction method statement

4.    Standard outline (Phased)

5.    Finished floor levels of habitable dwellings shall be set 600 mm above the modelled 1 in 100 annual probability (plus a 30% allowance for climate change) flood level.

6.    Development to be carried out in accordance with the approved Flood Risk Assessment

7.    A scheme to demonstrate appropriate flood resilience measures to the proposed development to be submitted and approved

8.    All residential dwellings to be located in Flood Zone 1

9.    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

10.No development shall take place until a detailed design and associated management and maintenance plan of surface water drainage for the site using sustainable drainage methods has been submitted to and approved in writing

11.A scheme for the disposal of foul and surface waters for the entire site to be submitted to and approved in writing

12.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

13.Submission, approval and implementation of location, height, design, and luminance of any proposed lighting

14.A Phase II investigation shall be carried out and the results submitted to, and approved in writing by, the Local Planning Authority, followed by any necessary remediation.

15.Submission, approval and implementation of a scheme of odour / noise control for therestaurant/public house.

16.Submission, approval and implementation of travel plan

17.Scheme to minimise dust emissions arising from demolition / construction activities on the site to be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

18.Details of electric vehicle infrastructure to be installed within that phase shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the LPA.

19.Standard time frame - 3 years

20.A detailed landscape scheme should be submitted for approval prior to commencement on site

21.The agreed landscape scheme should be implemented within the first planting season after commencement of development.

22.Management plan to include all landscape areas and public open space (within this application) should be submitted and approved prior to commencement of landscape works

23.A five year landscape establishment management plan should be submitted and approved prior to commencement of landscape works

24.Any landscape planting that fails within the first 5 years after planting should be replaced on a like for like basis unless agreed in writing with the LPA

25.Submission / approval / implementation of footpath surfacing / lighting

26.Drawing numbers

27.Bin storage

28.Details of tress and hedgerows to be retained to be provided

29.Phasing plan to be submitted

30.Details of land to be provided for footbridge across spine road to be submitted as part of the Reserved Matters application

31.Details of boundary treatment to be submitted prior to commencement.

32.Individual Travel Plans shall be developed for all commercial occupants and residential properties with the aim of promoting alternative / low carbon transport options for staff, patrons and residents.

33.Low emission strategy including a timetable for implementation for that phase to be submitted to and approved in writing by the LPA.

34.At least 10% of the energy supply of the development shall be secured from decentralised and renewable or low-carbon energy sources or fabric first

35.Ground levels to be submitted

36.Protection of breeding birds

37.Provision of bird boxes

38.Times of Piling

39.Hours of construction/noise generative works

40.The scheme is to include provisions for ventilation that will not compromise the acoustic performance of any proposals

41.Any mitigation shown as part of the report must achieve the internal and external noise levels defined within BS8233:2014 and / or industrial noise levels where complaints are considered unlikely as defined in BS42142:2014.

42.Further mitigation is to be provided in areas to the south of the site to enhance the noise environment in outdoor areas of residential properties.  This should be achieved in the form of acoustic fencing and designed to reduce noise levels.

43.Detailed layout to show that housing units are not located in the area to north where the noise modelling has indicated that industrial noise levels are unacceptable.

44.Noise mitigation proposals to be submitted for approval with the reserved matters planning application.

45.If, during development, contamination not previously identified is found to be present at the site then no further development shall be carried out until the developer has submitted a remediation strategy

46.The development hereby permitted shall not be commenced until such time as a scheme to dispose of foul drainage has been submitted to, and approved in writing by, the local planning authority.

47.Development shall not begin until a surface water drainage scheme for the site has been submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority.

48.Details of all bridges proposed on site shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority

49.No development shall take place until a plan detailing the protection and/or mitigation of damage to populations of white-clawed crayfish and associated habitat during construction works and once the development is complete.

50.Provision and management of a large undeveloped buffer zone alongside the watercourse shall be submitted to and agreed in writing by the local planning authority

51.Reserved matters application to be supported by an updated protected species assessment and mitigation strategy.

52.Habitat creation proposals for the triangle shaped red line land located to the east of the link road and to the south of the railway line, including woodland planting, to be submitted with future reserved matters application.

53.Ecological mitigation ponds not to be utilised as part of a drainage/SUDs scheme.

54.Reserved matters application to be supported by a Construction Environment Managment Plan.

55.Reserved matters application to be supported by a strategy for the safeguarding of the brook.

56.Reserved matters application to be supported by a habitat management plan to be implemented in perpetuity.

57.Toucan crossing to be delivered through a S278 Agreement

58.Environmental Management Plan

59.Risks assessment/methodology for works adjacent to railway (including fencing, levels)

60.Pedestrian/cycle route over link road

61.Reserved matters to secure pedestrian link to Mill Lane

62.Removal of Permitted Developments Rights

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.