Agenda item

To consider the above planning application.

Note: Mr T Loomes attended the meeting and addressed the Committee on behalf of the applicant.

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

RESOLVED

(a)          That authority be DELEGATED to the Head of Planning (Regulation), in consultation with the Chairman of Southern Planning Committee, to APPROVE the application for the reasons set out in the report, subject to:

·                     the resolution of outstanding matters relating to levels around trees

·                     detailed design revisions concerning the siting of a block of 2.5/3 storey houses to Plots 22-25

·                     negotiations/further investigations with regard to health related infrastructure requirements

·                     the completion of a s106 agreement to secure

1.            £51,084 in lieu of on site Public Open Space provision – upon 1^st occupation

2.            NEAP including at least 8 items of equipment. Specification to be submitted to and agree by the Council.

3.            Provision for a private residents management company to maintain the on-site ecological area/ amenity space / play area and all incidental areas of open space not within the adopted public highway or domestic curtilages

4.            Detailed management plan for the above Open Space/ecological mitigation area to be submitted and approved.

5.            Provision of 30% on-site affordable dwellings – 65% provided as affordable rent and 35% as Intermediate tenure. The affordable units should be tenure blind and be provided no later than occupation of 50% of the open market dwellings.

6.            £50,000 ecological mitigation payment to be paid on the occupation of the 109th dwelling

7.            £271,157 towards  primary school education provision - 50% of the money upon the occupation of the 55th dwelling house and a further 50% upon the occupation of the  109^th dwelling

8.            £326,854 towards secondary school education provision - 50% of the money upon the occupation of the 55th dwelling house and a further 50% upon the occupation of the  109^th dwelling

9.            £91,000 towards special education needs  education provision (1    space primary and 1 space secondary) - 50% of the money upon the occupation of the 55th dwelling house and a further 50% upon the occupation of the  109^th dwelling

10.         £299,999 towards  schemes of  highway mitigation on the A34 and the A536 to be paid upon commencement  of building of the 109^th dwelling

·                     the following conditions:

1.    Time – 2 years

2.    In accordance with approved plans

3.    Materials – Prior submission/approval

4.    Construction Management Plan, inc wheel washing – Prior submission/approval

5.    Right turn lanes from Manchester Road to be provided and implemented prior to any occupation

6.    Details of bin and  bike store for flats to be submitted, approved and provided prior to flat occupation

7.    Parking areas to be provided as per the submitted plan prior to 1^st occupation of relevant flat/house

8.    Removal of PD rights for extensions – selective plots – smaller house types

9.    Removal of PD rights for any walls, fences, means of enclosure forward of any buildings

10. Surface water drainage scheme – Prior submission/approval of the detailed design, implementation, maintenance and management

11. Landscaping – Prior submission/approval – To include hedgerow retention/enhancement/further planting

12. Landscaping – Implementation

13. Boundary treatments – Prior submission/approval

14. Nesting birds - Prior submission/approval

15. Breeding birds and roosting bat features – Prior submission/approval

16. Piling

17. Floor Floating

18. Environmental Management Plan – Prior submission/approval

19. Land Remediation Strategy  – Prior submission/approval in accordance  in Compliance with Phase II Contamination report

20. Energy Efficiency/fabric first approach

21. Residential travel plan

22. Evidence and verification report of imported soil and soil forming materials – Prior submission/approval

23. Tree  and hedgerow Protection scheme – Prior submission/approval

24. Levels existing and proposed prior to any development. Implementation in accordance

25. Retention and protection scheme for existing trees and hedgerows.

26. Phasing plan for the completion of POS & ecological mitigation areas

27. Landscape Masterplan and full hard and soft landscape details submitted prior to commencement with phasing of implementation

28. Implementation of great crested newt mitigation and Scheme to fully comply with GCN Appraisal and mitigation & Habitat compensation measures (2014) prepared by CES Ecology unless varied by a subsequent Natural England license.

29. Updated badger survey prior to commencement of development

30. Safeguarding of nesting birds

31. Provision of details for the incorporation of features for nesting birds including house sparrow

32. Scheme of reduction of energy use/enhanced fabric approach

(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 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 the application be subject to an appeal, approval be given to enter into a S106 Agreement to secure the Heads of Terms as detailed above.