17 DC/18/00861 LAND TO THE EAST OF, ELY ROAD, CLAYDON, SUFFOLK PDF 536 KB
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17.1 Item 7A
Application DC/18/00681
Proposal Outline Planning Application (with means of access to be considered) – Erection of up to 67 dwellings, public open space and supporting site infrastructure including access.
Site Location CLAYDON – Land to the East of, Ely Road, Claydon, Suffolk
Applicant M. Scott Properties Ltd, The St Edmundsbury and Ipswich Diocese
17.2 The Case Officer presented the application to the Committee outlining the location of the site, the amended layout of the site, the increased biodiversity buffer, footpath improvements, and the officer recommendation of approval.
17.3 The Case Officer and Senior Development Management Engineer from Suffolk County Council Highways Department responded to Members’ questions on issues including: footpaths and highways, construction traffic, the neighbouring site that had been previously approved, and the possible timeframe for construction.
17.4 Members considered the representation from Richard Martin who spoke as the Agent.
17.5 The Agent responded to questions from Members on issues including: the current ownership of the land.
17.6 Members considered the representation from Councillor John Whitehead, Ward Member, who spoke against the application.
17.7 The Ward Member responded to Members’ questions on issues including:: the lack of a Neighbourhood Plan in the parishes, the consultation and engagement from the Applicant, the proposals relationship to the Draft Joint Local Plan, and the current use of the land.
17.8 A comfort break was taken between 10:47 – 11:00
17.9 Members debated the application on the issues including: the single access route to the site, construction traffic route, pressure on local facilities, improvements to footpaths and the increased biodiversity measures.
17.10 Councillor Kathie Guthrie proposed that the application be approved as detailed in the officer recommendation with the additions as follows:
- Condition that no construction access should pass through Edinburgh Gardens.
- Informative of upgrading the existing footpath to a bridleway as a request to the County Council
- as a condition The proposed bungalows on the site would be delivered to M42 and M43 standard at the reserved matters stage.
17.11 This was Seconded by Councillor David Muller
17.12 By 9 votes to 3.
17.13 It was Resolved:-
(1) Subject to the prior agreement of a Section 106 Planning Obligation on appropriate terms to the satisfaction of the Chief Planning Officer as summarised below and those as may be deemed necessary by the Chief Planning Officer to secure:
- Affordable housing
- This shall include not less than 35% of the total dwellings
- Properties shall be built to current Housing Standards Technical requirements March 2015 Level 1. All ground floor 1 bed flats to be fitted with level access showers, not baths.
- The council is granted 100% nomination rights to all the affordable units on initial lets and 75% on subsequent lets
- All affordable units to be transferred freehold to one of the Councils preferred Registered providers.
- Adequate parking provision is made for the affordable housing units including cycle storage for all units.
- Commuted sum option available to be paid instead of ... view the full minutes text for item 17
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10.1 A lunch break was taken between 13:50- 14:20 after the completion of 1856/17 but before the commencement of DC/18/00861.
10.2 It was noted that during the break Councillor Andrew Stringer left the meeting and Councillor James Caston re-joined the Committee following the completion of application 1856/17.
10.3 Item 8B
Application DC/18/00861
Proposal Outline Planning Application (with means of access to be considered) – erection of up to 73 dwellings, public open space and supporting site infrastructure including access.
Site Location Land to the East of, Ely Road, Claydon, Suffolk
Applicant M.Scott Properties Ltd, The St Edmundsbury & Ipswich Diocese
10.4 The Case Officer presented the application to the Committee outlining the proposal before Members, the layout of the site, the history of the site, the contents of the tabled papers, and the officer recommendation of approval.
10.5 The Case Officer responded to Members’ questions on issues including: the proposed parameter plan and the pedestrian access to the site, the vehicular access to the site, and that strategic housing had been consulted, that the housing mix could be secured.
10.6 Councillor John Field declared a Local Non-Pecuniary interest in the application under discussion as he was a Governor at Claydon Primary School.
10.7 The Case Officer responded to further questions from Members on issues including: the surface of the slade pathway, the access on Ely road, street parking in the surrounding area, whether the height of dwellings could be restricted, the accessibility of the dwellings, landscaping on site, the impact on neighbourhood amenity for existing residents, the allocation of the site within the Draft Joint Local Plan, and that construction traffic would use Ely Road.
10.8 Members considered the representation from Richard Scott who spoke as the Applicant.
10.9 The Applicant responded to Members questions on issues including: the number of proposed bungalows on site.
10.10 Members considered the representation from the Ward Member, Councillor John Whitehead who spoke against the application.
10.11 The Ward Member responded to Members questions on issues including: the routes of vehicles from the proposed estate to the nearest shops and wider transport connections, that the village did not have a neighbourhood plan and that the walkway across the site was not a public right of way.
10.12 Members debated the application on the issues including: the number of proposed dwellings on site, the access to the site, the housing mix on the site, the proposed landscape buffer, the traffic issues that would caused by the site, and the route of construction traffic.
10.13 The Chief Planning Officer responded to a question raised earlier from Cllr Matthissen regarding M4(2) and M4(3) buildings and that the district was moving towards the Joint Local Plan which would require 50% being of that class however there was not any policy to support this but that a scheme for the provision of accessible and adaptable dwellings under M4(2) to be submitted with the reserved matters.
10.14 Members continued to debate the application on the issues including: the accessibility of ... view the full minutes text for item 10