Agenda item

18/6374C-Proposed site clearance and construction of a four/five storey building for 44 apartments (Use Class C3) with under croft car parking, access, surface car parking, retaining walls, landscaping and associated infrastructure, Former Dane Bridge Mill Site, Mill street, Congleton for Susan Alexander, Selyor Properties Ltd

To consider the above application.

Minutes:

Note: Having made a declaration at the beginning of the meeting, Councillor S Holland withdrew prior to the Committee’s consideration of this item.  Councillor Holland did not return to the meeting.

 

Note: Councillor Suzie Akers Smith (Ward Councillor) and Susan Alexander (applicant) attended the meeting and addressed the Committee on this matter.

 

The Committee considered a report regarding the above planning application, a written update and an oral report of the site inspection.

 

RESOLVED

 

(a) That, for the reasons set out in the report and the written update, the application be APPROVED subject to the completion of a S106 Agreement to secure:

 

S106

Amount

Triggers

Affordable Housing

 

30% (13 units)

(65% (8 units) Affordable Rent / 35% (5 units) Intermediate)

 

 

No more than 80% open market occupied prior to affordable provision

 

Education

 

 

Primary £21,693

Secondary £32,685

Total education contribution: £54,378

50% Prior to first occupation

50% at occupation of 22nd t dwelling

Health

 

 

£24,552

towards expansion or redevelopment of the Readesmoor and Meadowside surgeries

50% Prior to first occupation

50% at occupation of 22nd dwelling

Public Open Space

 

£4,920.19 and £13,064.75 towards enhancement and future maintenance (25 years) of Congleton Park Town Wood

On first occupation

 

 

 

 

and the following conditions:

 

1. Commencement of development (3 years)

2. Development in accordance with approved and amended plans

3. Landscaping scheme to be implemented in accordance with the submitted scheme

4. Development to be carried out in accordance with submitted Arboricultural Impact Assessment

5. Tree protection of retained trees / hedgerows

6. Protection for breeding birds during bird nesting season

7. Details of ground levels to be submitted, approved and implemented

8. Details of external facing materials to be submitted, approved and implemented

9. Details of boundary treatments to be submitted, approved and implemented

10.Development to be carried out in accordance with submitted noise survey and shall meet British Standards

11.Development to be carried out in accordance with submitted Flood Risk Assessment.

12.Foul and surface water drainage to be connected on separate systems

13.Scheme of surface water drainage to be submitted, approved and implemented

14.Phase II contaminated land investigation to be submitted, approved and implemented. Remediation of contaminated land to be carried out

15.Verification of remediated contaminated land to be submitted and approved

16.Details of bin storage / waste strategy to be submitted

17.Details of pile foundations / floor floating to be submitted, approved and implemented

18.Electric Vehicle Infrastructure to be provided prior to first occupation (5 Mode 2 compliant charging points)

19.Broadband connection / digital connections to be made prior to first occupation

20.Submission, approval and implementation of Travel Information Pack

21.Submission, approval and implementation of a scheme of archaeological mitigation

22.Submission, approval and implementation of a Construction Environmental Management Plan

23.Accordance with Ecological Assessment

24.Nesting bird mitigation measures to be submitted, approved and implemented

25.Details of external lighting and undercroft lighting to be submitted, approved and implemented

26.Scheme for biodiversity enhancement to be to be submitted, approved and implemented

 

(b) That, 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 Development Management be granted delegated authority to do so following consultation with the Chairman of the Northern Planning Committee, provided that the changes do not exceed the substantive nature of the Committee’s decision.

 

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