Agenda item

To consider the above application.

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

(Councillor S Corcoran (Ward Member) and Matt Wedderburn (on behalf of the Applicant)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 the following Heads of Terms:

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 a NEAP (8 pieces of equipment) to be maintained by a private management company.

3.    Primary School Education Contribution of £390,466.

4.    Secondary School Education Contribution of £424,909.

5.    A contribution of £120,000 towards off-site highway improvements (The Hill/High Street).

6.    Detailed design, implementation and management of the ecological mitigation area.

And the following conditions:

1.    Standard outline 1

2.    Standard outline 2

3.    Standard outline 3

4.    Landscaping shall include details of replacement hedgerow planting

5.    Phasing shall be submitted to the LPA for approval in writing

6.    Reserved matters to include details of land levels

7.    Surface water drainage scheme

8.    Compensatory flood storage

9.    Details for the disposal of foul water

10.Provision of an 8m buffer to Arclid Brook

11.Contaminated land

12.Environment Management Plan

13.Noise and Odour Assessment in relation to Houndings Lane Farm

14.Archaeology mitigation

15.Timing of works within the bird breeding season

16.Breeding bird and bat boxes

17.Ecology mitigation strategy

18.Arboricultural Method Statement

19.Travel Plan

20.Pedestrian and cycle provision

21.Electric vehicle Infrastructure

22.No development within the area adjacent to the silage clamp unless the silage clamp has bee relocated to a position south of Houndings Lane Farm with suitable drainage

23.Reserved Matters application to include updated protected species surveys

24.Bin Storage

Informative

Notwithstanding the access points as indicated as part of the submitted details this permission does not convey or imply that a vehicular access directly onto the A534 is acceptable in principle to the Local Planning Authority.  This would be dealt with at the reserved matters stage.

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 is approved to enter into a S106 Agreement with the following Heads of Terms:

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 a NEAP (8 pieces of equipment) to be maintained by a private management company

3. Primary School Education Contribution of £390,466

4. Secondary School Education Contribution of £424,909

5. A contribution of £120,000 towards off-site highway improvements (The Hill/High Street)

6. Detailed design, implementation and management of the ecological mitigation area

Following consideration of this application, the meeting adjourned for lunch from 1.00 pm to 1.45 pm.