Agenda item

To consider the above planning application.

Note: Councillor R Walker left the meeting prior to consideration of this item.

Note: Councillor Rachel Bailey arrived in the meeting during consideration of this item.

Note: Councillor P Mason (Ward Councillor) attended the meeting and addressed the Committee on this matter.  Ms A Freeman, Emery Planning Partnership, (on behalf of the applicant) had not registered her intention to address the Committee.  However, in accordance with paragraph 2.8 of the public speaking rights at Strategic Planning Board and Planning Committee meetings, the Committee agreed to allow Ms Freeman to speak.

The Committee considered a report regarding the above planning application.

RESOLVED - That the application be APPROVED subject to:

The prior completion and signing of a Section 106 agreement in respect of the following Heads of Terms:

1. Provision of 30% affordable housing split equally between social rented and intermediate housing (including either shared ownership, Rent to Home Buy or discount for sale) but of a split to be agreed by Cheshire East Housing Section. 

2. Provision of 30% affordable housing for the proposed close care/retirement apartments

3. Submission of an operational statement relating to the proposed care home and retirement apartments including nomination rights from Cheshire East waiting list

4. Green Travel Plan Management Arrangements and necessary financial contribution.

5. Financial contribution towards off-site highway works to cover footpath and bus stop enhancements

6. Financial contribution of £53,834 to public open space.  Provision of children’s play equipment on site at the applicant’s expense but with detail to be agreed by Cheshire East.  Precise details of management plan for POS to be submitted and agreed.

7. Applicants to purchase and install bridge to Congleton Park but with details to be agreed by Cheshire East.

8. Scheme for ecological and landscape enhancements and long-terms management Plans

9. Possible contribution to Drainage (UU)

and

The following conditions:

1. Outline application time limit

2. Reserved Matters – Layout, Scale, Appearance and Landscaping

3. Development parameters in accordance with indicative plans (Care home to north accessed from Mill Street) (Residential on Southern Parcel accessed from Brook Street)

4. Restriction to no more than 74 dwellings, 72 bed carehome and 36 retirement apartments

5. Contaminated land condition (including further intrusive investigation and remediation)

6. Detailed scheme for noise mitigation to be agreed and implemented prior to first occupation

7. Detailed scheme for dust mitigation during demolition and construction

8. Restrictions on hours of construction

9. Restriction on hours of piling activity

10. Restriction on hours of construction vehicle deliveries

11. Precise details for carehome filtration and extraction systems

12. External lighting strategy to be submitted agreed

13. Detailed Tree Protection Scheme to submitted, agreed and fully implemented

14. Protection of Breeding Birds

15. Detailed mitigation strategy for bats based on the TEP Option One retention strategy including wheelhouse structural works.

16. Scheme for watercourse protection during construction

17. Proposed building floor levels 600mm above freeboard allowance

18. Roads, parking and footways 300mm above freeboard allowance

19. Detailed scheme for compensatory flood storage to be agreed before commencement of development and fully implemented thereafter

20. Surface water regulation to be submitted and agreed

21. Scheme for management of overland flows from surcharging of surface water drains to be submitted and agreed prior to commencement of development

22. 8m buffer strip and wildlife corridor to be retained adjacent to the watercourse

23. Site levels to be strict accordance with Peter Mason Cut and Fill Drawings unless otherwise agreed in writing

24. New vehicular access to Brook Street to be constructed to base course before other construction works commence and fully implemented before first occupation of any dwellings

25. Site waste management plan

26. Scheme for Archaeological investigation

27. 10% renewable energy increasing to 15% if required by RSS

28. Precise details of all boundary treatments within the site to be agreed to include public open space and riverside areas or footpaths

29. Precise details of internal footbridge connection two areas of POS to be submitted, agreed and fully implemented within an agreed timescale