Agenda item

To consider the above planning application.

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

RESOLVED

(a)  That, for the reasons set out in the report, the application be APPROVED subject to the signing of a Section 106 Agreement with the following Heads of Terms:

1.         A scheme for the provision of 30% affordable housing – split 2 rented and 1 for intermediate sale based on 10 units. 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.         An education contribution of £32,685 towards secondary education in Nantwich.

and the following conditions:

1.    Commencement of development (3 years) or 2 from the date of approval of reserved matters.

2.    Reserved matters to be approved.

3.    Approved plans (to include the revised access but NOT the illustrative layout)

4.    Tree retention/protection in accordance with agreed scheme

5.    Further ecological surveys to be submitted as part of the reserved matters application

6.    Surface water drainage

7.    Separate systems for drainage

8.    Contaminated land verification report

9.    Construction management plan including dust control

10. Noise mitigation
11. Reserved matters to comprise no more than 8 dwellings

(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 Head of Planning (Regulation) in consultation with the Chairman (or in her absence, the Vice Chairman) of the 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 this application be the subject of an appeal, the following Heads of Terms be secured as part of any S106 Agreement:

1.         A scheme for the provision of 30% affordable housing – split 2 rented and 1 for intermediate sale based on 10 units. 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.         An education contribution of £32,685 towards secondary education in Nantwich.