Agenda item

To consider the above application.

 

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

 

(Councillor R Fletcher (Ward Member) and Councillor M Deakin (Ward Member), Councillor P Williams and Councillor J Smith (on behalf of Alsager Town Council), Mr P Bower (Objector), Ms J Naylor (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 the following:

 

1.    A scheme for the provision of affordable housing (38 units) – 25 units to be provided as social rent/affordable rent and 13 as 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. LEAP including at least 8 items of equipment. Specification to be submitted to and agree by the Council.

3. Provision for a management company to maintain the on-site amenity space / play area / public footpaths and all incidental areas of open space not within the adopted public highway or domestic curtilages

4. Detailed management plan for the above Open Space be submitted and approved.

5. Highways contribution of £171,449.60 in mitigation at Hassall Road/ Crewe Road junction and the signal junction in the town centre at Sandbach Road / Crewe Road.

6. A contribution of £40,950 towards the upgrade of Alsager FP10

7. A contribution of £81,713 towards secondary education

8. Contribution of £260,310.96 towards primary education

 

 

And the following conditions:

 

1. Standard Time

2. Plans

3. Archaeology

4. Submission / approval and implementation of works to improve and enhance footpath no.8 / 10

5. Provision of signage within the site for cyclists and pedestrians

6. Piling operations shall be restricted to: Monday – Friday 09:00 – 17:30 hrs Saturday 09:00 – 13:00 hrs Sunday and Public Holidays Nil

7. Submission, approval and implementation of a piling method statement

8. Submission, approval and implementation of an Environmental Management Plan

9. Prior to the development commencing the applicant shall submit and agree with the LPA a scheme of acoustic mitigation to ensure that noise levels within bedrooms do not exceed levels within BS8233:2014.  The acoustic integrity shall not be affected by the need to open windows to achieve trickle ventilation.

10. Provision of a 2.0m acoustic boundary treatment to the residential gardens as described in the acoustic report submitted with the application. 

11. Dust Control details to be submitted and approved

12. Provision of Electric Vehicle infrastructure on the properties

13. Submission and approval of a Phase II investigation shall be carried out and the results submitted to, and approved in writing by, the Local Planning Authority (LPA)

14. Implementation of the approved landscaping scheme

15. Compliance with the submitted FRA

16. Submission of a drainage strategy for the site

17. Submission of a scheme for on and off site drainage works

18. Submission of a detailed design and management plan for the surface water drainage using sustainable drainage methods

19. Site to be drained on a separate system with only foul drainage connected into the public foul sewerage system.

20. Submission of a method statement for safeguarding the brook

21. Submission of a scheme for the removal of Himalayan Balsam on the application site

22. Detailed designs for the crossing over Valley Brook to be submitted and agreed

23. All arboricultural works to be in accordance with the submitted Arboricultural Implication Study

24. No works in bird nesting season without survey

25. Provision of features for breeding birds

26. Submission and approval of facing materials

27. Submission and approval of boundary treatment

28. Existing and proposed land levels to be submitted for approval (no change in land levels to floodzone 3)

29. Yellowhammer mitigation strategy to be submitted and approved

30. Updated protected species survey/mitigation to be submitted and approved

31. Finished floor levels for dwellings

32. Finished floor levels for roads, parking and pedestrian areas

33. Landscape habitat plan

34. Contaminated land remediation

35. Bin Storage

36. Removal of PD for conservatories/extensions

 

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 to secure the following:

 

1.  A scheme for the provision of affordable housing (38 units) – 25 units to be provided as social rent/affordable rent and 13 as 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. LEAP including at least 8 items of equipment. Specification to be submitted to and agreed by the Council.

3. Provision for a management company to maintain the on-site amenity space / play area / public footpaths and all incidental areas of open space not within the adopted public highway or domestic curtilages

4. Detailed management plan for the above Open Space be submitted and approved.

5. Highways contribution of £171,449.60 in mitigation at Hassall Road/ Crewe Road junction and the signal junction in the town centre at Sandbach Road / Crewe Road.

6. A contribution of £40,950 towards the upgrade of Alsager FP10

7. A contribution of £81,713 towards secondary education

8. Contribution of £260,310.96 towards primary education

 

Following consideration of this application, the meeting was adjourned for a short break.  Councillors D Newton and S Pochin left the meeting and did not return.