Issue - meetings

Note: Town Councillor Bagnall (on behalf of Middlewich Town Council) and Mark Krassowski (agent for the applicant, Walsingham Planning) attended the meeting and addressed the Board on this matter.

The Board considered a report regarding the above planning application.

RESOLVED – That the application be APPROVED subject to the completion of a Section 106 legal agreement to secure the following:

1. a) Affordable housing provision of 16% - to be provided on site.  The housing is to be provided based on 33% social rented and 67% intermediate/shared ownership, and to be provided in a variety of unit sizes to meet local requirements, in accordance with the scheme to be agreed at the Reserved Matters stage.  The affordable housing to be ‘tenure blind’ and pepper potted throughout the site, subject to RSL operational requirements.

1. b) An overage clause which provides for the current viability calculations to be reviewed at appropriate intervals before completion of the development and for the figure of 16% to be increased if the economics of provision improve either by increased on site provision or by financial contribution in lieu.

2. The following contributions:-

A533/A54 Leadsmithy St, Middlewich:-   £170,000

A533/A534 The Hill/High St/Old Mill Rd/Brookhouse Rd roundabout, Sandbach  £197,000

£190,000 to be spent either on Junction 17 of the M6 or the Middlewich bypass whichever comes forward first (the decision regarding allocation of this contribution to be delegated to the Head of Planning and Housing, in consultation with the Chairman)

Quality partnership bus shelters   £25,000

Real Time Information facility, Sandbach Rail Station   £20,000

Travel Plan facilities and targets   £38,000

Education contribution - £100,000

3. Provision for public open space to serve the whole of the development to be agreed with the Council when details of layout are submitted for approval. This must secure the provision and future management of children’s play areas and amenity greenspace in accordance with quantitative and qualitative standards contained in the Council’s policy documents including the Congleton Borough Local Plan First Review SPG1 and it’s Interim Policy Note for the Provision of Public Open Space 2008. Submitted details must include the location, grading, drainage, layout, landscape, fencing, seeding and planting of the proposed public open space, transfer to and future maintenance by a private management company.

and the following conditions:

1.            Standard outline

2.            Submission of reserved matters

3.            Approved Plans – location and zoning

4.            Notwithstanding detail shown – no approval of indicative residential masterplan.

5.            Submission of Landscape Design principles

6.            Submission of Landscape framework

7.            Submission of Landscape and ecological management plan

8.            Retention of trees and hedgerows

9.            Submission of Arboricultural Impact Assessment

10.       Submission of Arboricultural Method Statement

11.       Submission of Comprehensive tree protection measures

12.       Submission of assessments under the Hedgerow Regulations with each reserved matters application, for any hedgerows to be removed as part of that phase of development.

13.       Submission of topographical survey as part of reserved matters.

14.       Use of farmhouse as site office

15.       geophysical survey in order to establish the need,  ...  view the full minutes text for item 141