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97.1    Item 6a

 

          Application              DC/19/05419

Proposal                  Revised Hybrid Application. Phase 2 of Hadleigh East Urban Extension Area [HEUEA] (part of Core Strategy Policy CS6: Hadleigh). On 19.6Ha of land to the South of Tower Mill Lane/East of Frog Hall Lane, Hadleigh comprising the following elements:

[Element A]: Full Planning Application. (11.98Ha) Proposed residential development of 273 dwellings, associated infrastructure, including main access and estate roads, drainage attenuation ponds, utilities/services equipment, provision of Public Open Space and structural landscaping, secondary access (loop) road to serve the employment land. (including secondary link to Phase 1).

[Element B]: Outline Planning Application (7.64Ha). (Access to be considered) to include 5.5Ha of land for B1, B2 and B8 employment uses, a 928sqm pre-school site (Use Class D1), associated infrastructure and landscaping. All matters reserved apart from the primary means of access (from the main access road) and secondary access road, including a secondary emergency and bus only link to Phase 1b.

Site Location           HADLEIGH – Land South of Tower Mill Lane/East of Frog Hall Lane, Hadleigh, Suffolk, IP7 6LA

Applicant                 Persimmon Homes

 

 

97.2    The Case Officer introduced the application to the Committee outlining the proposal before Members including: the location and layout of the site, the proposed housing mix, access to the site, housing design, landscaping, the agreed S106 arrangements, and the officer recommendation of approval.

 

97.3    The Case Officer responded to questions from Members on issues including: the S106 arrangements, the enhanced public transport services, the proposed internal layout of the dwellings, any proposals to deter residents from parking on open spaces, potential traffic issues, employment land on the site, and the location of electric vehicle charging points for residents’ use.

 

97.4    The Chief Planning Officer provided clarification to Members regarding the current status of the draft Joint Local Plan, and the proposed allocations detailed within it.

 

97.5    The Case Officer responded to further questions from Members on issues including:  proposed safety measures for the water meadow and SUDS areas on site, the visibility of units on the employment land, the number of electric vehicle charging points, and whether parking spaces would be allocated to particular households.

 

97.6    Members considered the representation from Stuart McAdam who spoke as the applicant.

 

97.7    The applicant responded to questions from Members on issues including: the issues regarding adoption of the open spaces from phase one of the development, the proposed number of dwellings to have PV panels installed, proposed parking plans, ecology issues, landscaping of the footpaths and whether installation of a defibrillator would be considered.

 

97.8    The Case Officer  and the Chief Planning Officer responded to questions from Members regarding the proposed classes of business use permitted on the site.

 

97.9    Members considered the statement from the Ward Member, Councillor Mick Fraser, which was read out by the Governance Officer.

 

97.10  Councillor Beer proposed that the application be approved as detailed in the officer recommendation.

 

97.11  Councillor Barrett seconded the proposal.

 

97.12  The Case Officer responded to further questions from Members regarding the proposed plans for street lighting on the site.

 

97.13  Members debated the application on issues including: the type of heating to be installed in the properties, the number of properties to have PV panels installed, the classes of business use to be permitted on site, and provision of sports facilities.

 

97.14  Councillor Beer and Councillor Barrett agreed to the additional conditions detailed in the tabled papers, and an informative note regarding the provision of a defibrillator.

 

By a vote of 9 votes for and 2 against

 

It was RESOLVED:

 

That authority be delegated to the Chief Planning Officer to GRANT conditional HYBRID planning permission subject to the prior completion of an S106 to secure benefits and mitigation identified in the officer report

 

And the following additional conditions:

 

1.    Addition of generally defined area on the site plan as subsequently specified by the Council where buildings must be low level and of a scale to harmonise with adjacent residential development in order to safeguard amenity [visual and residential]  and outlook from those residential properties. The aim being to avoid the construction of high warehouses on this part of the site. Beyond this buffer hights will be judged on their merits.

 

2.    A 20m wide landscape buffer on the site’s spine road [Ellen Aldous Avenue] frontage  in addition to that on the sites other boundaries in order to soften the visual impact of new commercial development and to protect the residential amenity of residential properties opposite.

 

3.    Clear annotation of relevant drawings to be added to  identify the vehicular route to the north into phase 1b as being an emergency route or bus gate only and not a through route for general vehicles in order to  prevent the creation of a rat-run through the adjacent residential estate and to reduce the prospect of commercial traffic using the adjacent residential estate road in association with the employment uses hereby permitted which are to have their own point of access from Ellen Aldous Avenue for safety and amenity reasons

 

And the following informative:

 

The Council has noted and welcomes the offer made by Persimmon Homes at the Committee meeting to donate a defibrillator to the community at the end of construction and wishes to encourage prior discussion as to identifying a suitable location close to this site during the build out of this development.

 

 

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