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, a written update 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

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

·                     the completion of a s106 agreement to secure

1.            £46,000 Biodiversity mitigation to be utilised to fund off site habitat creation/enhancement within the Meres and Mosses Nature Improvement Area. Prior to commencement of development, to be paid upon the commencement development on site

2.            £2,000 Barn Owl Mitigation payment upon commencement

3.            £34,102 in lieu of on site Public Open Space provision – on 1^st occupation

4.            £70,923 Place Space Maintenance (in lieu of on site provision)

5.            £28,096 Amenity Greenspace payment in lieu of on site provision

6.            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

7.            Detailed management plan for the above Open Space be submitted and approved.

8.            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.

1.            £184,387  towards  primary school education provision - 50% of the money upon the occupation of the 40th dwelling house and a further 50% upon the occupation of the  80^th dwelling

2.             £184,387 towards  Secondary school education provision- 50% of the money upon the occupation of the 40th dwelling house and a further 50% upon the occupation of the  80^th dwelling

3.             £45,500 towards  Special education needs  education provision -50% of the money upon the occupation of the 40th dwelling house and a further 50% upon the occupation of the  80^th dwelling

4.             £158,333  towards  schemes of  highway mitigation on the A34 and the A536 to be paid upon commencement  of building of the 25th dwelling(25%)

·                     the following conditions:

1.            Time - standard

2.            In accordance with approved plans

3.            Materials – Prior submission/approval

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

5.            Main access road  to be constructed up to binder course prior to commencement.

6.            Parking areas to laid out and drained as  the agreed plan

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

8.            Removal of pd rights for any walls, fences, means of enclosure forward of any buildings

9.            Site to be drained on a separate system

10.         Surface water drainage scheme – Prior submission/approval

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.         Implementation of Barn Owl survey and Mitigation strategy prepared by CES Ecology  dated January 2016.

17.         Piling

18.         Floor Floating

19.         Environmental Management Plan – Prior submission/approval

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

21.         Energy Efficiency/fabric first approach

22.         Residential travel plan

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

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

25.         Levels existing and proposed

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

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

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

29.         Boundary treatments

30.         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.

31.         Updated badger survey prior to commencement of development

32.         Safeguarding of nesting birds

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

34.         Scheme of reduction of energy use/enhanced fabric first 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 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 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.