Agenda item

To consider the above planning application.

Note: Parish Councillor R Pulford (on behalf of Bunbury Parish Council), Mr R Lee and Mr A Thomson (objectors), and Mr S Goodwin (on behalf of the applicant) attended the meeting and addressed the Committee on this matter.

The Committee considered a report regarding the above planning application and two written updates.

RESOLVED

(a)  That authority be DELEGATED to the Principal Planning Manager (Regulation), in consultation with the Vice-Chairman of Southern Planning Committee, to APPROVE the application for the reasons set out in the report and the written updates, subject to:

-       the adequate completion of Certificate B on the application forms to demonstrate that all neighbours with legal interest in the site have had Notice served upon them

-       the completion of a s106 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 an area for Ecological Enhancements/Public Open Space to be maintained by a private management company

3. Secondary Education Contribution of £32,685.38

With an additional Heads Of terms to ensure the paddock area to the south of the application site (within the site edged blue within this application) is retained as open or paddock land in perpetuity

4. Paddock land within Blue Edge to be retained in perpetuity as open or paddock land

-       the following conditions:

1.           Standard outline 1

2.           Standard outline 2

3.           Standard outline 3

4.           Approved Plans

5.           Electric Vehicle Infrastructure to be submitted and approved

6.           Construction Management Plan to be submitted and approved

7.           Submission / Approval of Information regarding Contaminated Land

8.           Any reserved matters application shall be supported by an Arboricultural Impact Assessment (AIA) in accordance with Section 5.4 of BS5837:2012 Trees in Relation to Design, Demolition and Construction (Recommendations) which shall evaluate the direct and indirect impact effect of the proposed design on existing trees.

9.           Reserved Matters application to include details of the existing and proposed land levels

10.        The development hereby permitted shall not commence until details of the detailed design, implementation, maintenance and management of a surface water drainage scheme have been submitted to and approved in writing by the LPA

11.        The development hereby permitted shall not commence until details of the detailed design, implementation, maintenance and management of a surface water drainage scheme have been submitted to and approved in writing by the LPA

12.        The reserved matters shall include details of the habitat enhancement proposals for the site. Enhancement measures should include a wildlife pond, hibernacula creation, native shrub planting and the enhancement of the grassland habitats.

13.        Updated survey for Bats to be undertaken and submitted as part of any reserved matters application

14.        Any future reserved matters application to be supported by proposals for the incorporation of gaps for hedgehogs to be incorporate into any garden or boundary fencing proposed.  The gaps to be 10cm by 15cm and located at least every 5m

15.        The scheme of landscaping at RM stage shall include additional tree planting along the southern boundary of the retained paddock

16.        No development to commence until a highways scheme shall be submitted and approved in writing by the Council for access visibility on Bunbury Lane. The approved scheme shall be implemented in full prior to commencement of development and thereafter maintained.

17.        The submission of tree screen to paddock boundary

(b)  That, in order to give proper effect to the Committee’s intentions and without changing the substance of the decision, authority be delegated to the Principal Planning Manager (Regulation), in consultation with the Chairman (or in her absence the Vice Chairman) of Southern Planning Committee, to correct any technical slip or omission in the wording of the resolution, between approval of the minutes and issue of the decision notice.

(c) That, should the application be subject to an appeal, approval be given to enter into a S106 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 an area for Ecological Enhancements to be maintained by a private management company

3. Secondary Education Contribution of £32,685.38

4. Paddock land within Blue Edge to be retained in perpetuity as open or paddock land