Minutes:
24.1 Item D
Application DC/17/02782
Proposal Outline Planning Application (Access to be considered) – Erection of 15 dwellings (including 5 affordable bungalows)
Site Location THURSTON – Land off Church Road, Access via garden of “The Firs”, Thurston
Applicant Honeycroft Properties Ltd
24.2 The Case Officer presented the application to the Committee outlining the proposal before Members, the layout of the site, and the officer recommendation of approval with conditions.
24.3 The Case Officer responded to Members’ questions on issues including: the site, and its significance in the draft Neighbourhood Plan, and the trees that were proposed to be removed to create the access to the site.
24.4 Members considered the representation from Derrick Haley of Thurston Parish Council.
24.5 The Parish Council representative responded to Members’ questions on issues including: that there were no allocated sites within the draft Neighbourhood Plan.
24.6 Members considered the representation from Philip Cobbold who spoke as the Agent.
24.7 The Agent responded to Members’ questions on issues including: whether they had engaged with the Parish Council.
24.8 Members considered the representation from Councillor Harry Richardson who spoke as the Ward Member.
24.9 The Ward Member responded to Members’ questions on issues including: that there were bungalows adjacent to the site.
24.10 The Chair read out an email from Councillor Wendy Turner, Ward Member, who was unable to attend the meeting.
24.11 The Area Planning Manager advised Members that although the access to the site was within a flood zone, there was an emergency route out of the site.
24.12 Members debated the application on the issues including: the access to the site, the proposed improvements to the footpath under the railway bridge, the distance to the local amenities in the village, the possible flood risk, the impact on residential amenity, and that any trees removed from the site should be replaced.
24.13 Councillor Kathie Guthrie proposed that the application be approved as detailed in the officer recommendation with the additional conditions as follows:
· Flood evacuation plan to be agreed by the Local Planning Authority
· Any development within 20metres of the east site boundary shall be single storey only.
· Replacement trees shall be the same type and semi mature.
24.14 Councillor Barry Humphreys MBE seconded the motion.
24.15 By 5 votes to 1
24.16 RESOLVED
That authority be delegated to the Acting Chief Planning Officer to grant outline planning permission:
(1) Subject to the prior agreement of a Section 106 Planning Obligation on appropriate terms to the satisfaction of the Acting Chief Planning Officer to secure:
· Affordable Housing –
2 x 2-bed (Affordable Rent), 3 x 2-bed (Shared Ownership).
· Primary school S106 contribution: £72,776
· Early years S106 contribution: £31,966
(2) That the Acting Chief Planning Officer be authorised to grant Planning Permission upon completion of the legal agreement subject to conditions as summarised below and those as may be deemed necessary by the Acting Chief Planning Officer:
· Approved Plan showing indicative layout and access
· Reserved Matters · Visibility splays as SCC Highways recommend · Footway (including under the rail bridge) to be provided
· Carriageway widening
· Details of loading/unloading
· Construction Management Plan including working hours to agree · Archaeology to be agreed
· Surface water drainage scheme (details of)
· Surface water drainage scheme (implementation/maintenance of) · Construction Surface Water Management Plan
· Surface Water Management Strategy
· No buildings within flood zones 2 or 3
· Removal of pd for flood zone areas
· Land contamination
· Farmland bird survey
· Biodiversity Method Statement
· Wildlife-friendly lighting
· Phasing Condition (To allow phasing of the development and allows spreading of CIL payments)
· Fire hydrants and hard standing
· Sustainability and Energy Strategy to be agreed
· Bin storage and presentation areas to be agreed
· Provision of ecology measures including Hedgehog Fencing.
(3) And the following informative notes as summarised and those as may be deemed necessary by the Corporate Manager:
11.3 Informatives
· At Reserved Matters, the landscaping scheme should show significant re-planting to mitigate the loss of two lime trees
· At Reserved Matters, details of the provision for public access to the proposed open space should be provided
· Reference to Land Drainage Act 1991, Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England and Wales) Regulations 2003, Section 50 license under the New Roads and Street Works Act.
· Land Contamination advisory note.
· Highway informative
(3) That in the event of the Planning obligations referred to in Resolution (1) above not being secured within 6 months of the committee resolution that the Acting Chief Planning Officer be authorised to refuse the application on appropriate grounds.
Additional Conditions:
· Flood evacuation plan to be agreed by the Local Planning Authority
· Any development within 20metres of the east site boundary shall be single storey only.
· Replacement trees shall be the same type and semi mature.
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