Agenda item

20/0901C-Part full/part outline application proposing: 1: Full planning application for an employment development (Use Class B2 & B8 with ancillary Use Class B1 floorspace), and security gatehouse and weighbridge, the provision of associated infrastructure, including a substation, plant, pumping station, service yards, car and HGV parking, cycle and waste storage, landscaping, ecological enhancement area, drainage attenuation, access from Erf Way and re-alignment of the River Croco tributary. 2: Outline planning application for an employment development (Use Class B2 & B8 with ancillary Use Class B1 floorspace) with all detailed matters except for access reserved for future determination, Phase 4B and 1B Ma6nitude,, Off Erf Way, Middlewich for Magnitude Land LLP & Swizzels Matlow Ltd

To consider the above application.

Minutes:

Consideration was given to the above application.

(Jon Suckley, the agent for the applicant attended the virtual meeting and spoke in respect of the application).

RESOLVED

That the application be delegated to the Head of Planning in consultation with the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Strategic Planning Board to approve subject to resolving the objections from the Environment Agency; receipt of comments from the Lead Local Flood Authority (LLFA); clarification of the electrical charging provision requirements and meeting policy SE9 on renewable energy provision and subject to the completion of a S106 Agreement securing the following:-

Highways - Contribute to the Middlewich Eastern Bypass or A54 Corridor/Leadsmithy Street corridor improvements based on a payment of £30 per sq m GIA to be paid in four instalments prior to occupation of:-

• Plot 4B phase 1;

• Plot 4B phase 2

• Plot 4B phase 3; and

• Plot 1B

And Ecology – Biodiversity offset payment as follows:-

Prior to the commencement of development a scheme for offsetting

biodiversity impacts on the site shall be submitted to and approved by the

local planning authority. The proposed offsetting scheme shall include:

• Details of the offset requirements of the development in accordance

with the current Defra biodiversity metric, which has been calculated to

comprise 8.5 units conservation credits of grassland;

• The identification of a receptor site or sites which generate a minimum

8.5 units available conservation credits;

• The provision of evidence of arrangements that secures the delivery of

the offsetting scheme;

• A management and monitoring plan (which shall include for the

provision and maintenance of such offsetting measures for a period of not

less than 25 years from commencement of development)

And subject to the following conditions:-

FULL APPLICATION:

1. 3 Year start date

2. Approved plans/documents

3. Materials

4. Landscaping

5. Landscape maintenance

6. Arboricultural Impact Assessment

7. Tree Retention/Protection

8. Levels

9. Electric vehicle infrastructure

10. Ultra Low Emission Boiler(s)

11. Importation of soils

12. Contaminated land assessment (Phase II)

13. Contaminated land verification report

14. Measures to deal with unexpected contamination

15. Foul and surface water on separate systems

16. Surface water drainage

17. Tree felling under supervision (Bats)

18. Lighting (Amenity & Bats)

19. Updated Otter survey

20. Bird nesting season

21. Ecological mitigation measures

22. 25 Year habitat management plan

23. PROW Management scheme

OUTLINE APPLICATION:

1. Outline timescales