12/4494N-Outline planning approval for up to 44 No. dwellings, vehicular access, associated garaging, car parking and landscaping. (All matters reserved except access), Hunters Lodge Hotel, Sydney Road, Crewe for Seddon Homes Ltd
Meeting: 20/02/2013 - Strategic Planning Board (Item 152)
PDF 646 KBTo consider the above application.
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Consideration was given to the above application.
(Mr Parkinson, an objector and Amy James and Roy Spruce, the agents representing the applicant attended the meeting and spoke in respect of the application).
RESOLVED
That for the reasons in the report and in the update to Board the application be refused for the following reason:-
(1) The proposal is located within the Open Countryside and Green Gap and would result in erosion of the physical gaps between built up areas, and given that there are other alternatives sites, which could be used to meet the Council’s housing land supply requirements, the proposal is considered to be contrary to Policies NE2 and NE.4 of the Borough of Crewe and Nantwich Replacement Local Plan, the National Planning Policy Framework and the emerging Development Strategy.
(2) In preparation for the forthcoming Planning Inquiry, authority be delegated to the Development Management and Building Control Manager in consultation with the Chairman of the Strategic Planning Board to enter into a planning agreement in accordance with the S106 Town and Country Planning Act to secure the following Heads of Terms:-
· £75,924 towards primary education provision.
· £50,000 to be paid to the Council for the replacement/extension of the existing children’s play area 160m west from the proposed development, off Lansdowne Road.
· Private residents management company to maintain all Amenity Greenspace, public footpaths and greenways within the site, play areas, and other areas of incidental open space not forming private gardens or part of the adopted highway as public open space in perpetuity
· 35% affordable housing provision. The tenure split to be 65% social or affordable rent and 35% intermediate tenure provided no later than occupation of 50% of the open market units
· Transfer of affordable housing/shared ownership to a registered provider
· Provision of £10,000 and additionally £5,000 for the following local identified schemes:
i) The funding of the Sydney Road/Earle Street cycleway link.
ii) The permanent signing of the revised lane arrangements at the Sydney Road/Hungerford Road traffic signals.