Minutes:
116.1 Item 1
Application DC/18/03547
Proposal Application for approval of Reserved Matters following Outline Planning Permission Town & Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2015 – Layout, Scale, Appearance and Landscaping pursuant to condition 3 of Outline Planning Permission 4963/16, for up to 250 dwellings, open space and associated infrastructure.
Site Location THURSTON- Land to the West of, Ixworth Road, Thurston
Applicant Persimmon Homes (Suffolk)
116.2 The Case Officer presented the application to the Committee outlining the proposal before Members, the layout of the site, the changes that had been made to the proposal after the previous Committee meeting, the tabled papers that were before Members, and the Officer Recommendation of Approval.
116.3 The Case Officer responded to Members’ questions on issues including: the number of 2.5 storey dwellings proposed on the site after the revisions, the sizes of the affordable housing, the responses within the tabled papers from Place Services and Suffolk County Councils floods team.
116.4 The Acting Chief Planning Officer advised Members that in the interregnum period between the application being heard at Committee, the Thurston Neighbourhood Plan had been examined by the Planning Inspectorate and was now a material consideration for the Committee and it was expected to go to referendum later in 2019. The Acting Chief Planning Officer advised Members that the Council currently did have a 5 year Housing Land Supply but that this was predicated on previously approved outline permissions such as the site that was before Members which had been approved at outline in 2017.
The Acting Chief Planning Officer also advised Members that on the southern portion of the site, the “Souter” house type detailed that on the top floor there would be velux windows and that this was not intended to be a viewing window.
116.5 The Case Officer responded to further questions from Members’ on issues including the hoggin path across the site.
116.6 Members considered the representation from Richard Fawcett of Thurston Parish Council, who spoke against the application.
116.7 The Parish Council representative responded to Members’ questions on issues including: the Neighbourhood Plan; and that it identified that a school would be preferred on a different site.
116.7 Members considered the representation from Vicky Waples who spoke as an Objector.
116.8 Members considered the representation from the Applicant, Stuart McAdam.
116.9 The Applicant responded to Members’ questions on issues including: the Persimmon model of design including 2.5 storey development as a customer choice, the size of the affordable homes compared to National Space Standards, electric car charging points, and energy efficiency measures.
116.10 Members considered the representation from the Ward Member, Councillor Derrick Haley.
116.11 Members debated the application on the issues including: the proposed hoggin path on the site, the 2.5 storey houses on the site, the space sizes on the site.
116.12 The Acting Chief Planning Officer advised Members that Members could not condition that a housing planning application could not come forward on the south eastern edge of the site, but that an informative note could be added to the resolution if Members were minded to approve.
116.13 Members continued to debate the application on the issues including: the layout and design of the site, the ecological impact on the site, the possibility of a green corridor being introduced and that Members were concerned with the placement of 2.5 storey dwellings on the site.
116.14 Councillor John Matthissen proposed that the application be deferred to secure removal of all 2.5 storey dwellings and to resolve the concerns as raised by Place Services. A seconder was not found and as such the motion fell.
116.15 Councillor Roy Barker proposed that the application be approved as detailed in the Officer recommendation with the additional delegation and informative note of:
Delegate to the Acting Chief Planning Officer to
[a] negotiate the removal or reduction in the number of 2.5 storey dwelling plots and their relocation within the scheme and to negotiate the design and materials proposed having regard to Policy 4 of the Examined Thurston Neighbourhood Plan and the contours of the site and
[b] negotiate the amendment of the affordables dwelling content having regard to the comments of the Professional Lead – Strategic Housing
To his satisfaction and that subject to that delegate authority to grant Reserved Matters approval as recommended with additional conditions regarding
· Further ecological enhancements
· Landscaping conditions as per Late Papers (Place Services & SCC Floods Team)
· Resource and energy efficiency measures if not conditioned within the Outline permission and
Add Informative Note: In the event that the education land does not come forward for that purpose the Committee would be minded to support a community based use for that land.
116.16 Councillor Julie Flatman seconded the motion.
116.17 By a unanimous vote
116.18 RESOLVED:
Delegate to the Acting Chief Planning Officer to
[a] negotiate the removal or reduction in the number of 2.5 storey dwelling plots and their relocation within the scheme and to negotiate the design and materials proposed having regard to Policy 4 of the Examined Thurston Neighbourhood Plan and the contours of the site and
[b] negotiate the amendment of the affordables dwelling content having regard to the comments of the Professional Lead – Strategic Housing
To his satisfaction and that subject to that delegate authority to grant Reserved Matters approval as recommended with additional conditions regarding
· Further ecological enhancements
· Landscaping conditions as per Late Papers (Place Services & SCC Floods Team)
· Resource and energy efficiency measures if not conditioned within the Outline permission
That authority be delegated to the Acting Chief Planning Officer - Growth & Sustainable Planning to Grant reserved matters approval subject to the following conditions:
· Approved Plans and Documents
· Detailed scheme of Soft Landscape Planting (In addition to that already imposed as part of Outline Planning Permission Ref: 4963/16)
· Those required by SCC-Highways
· Those already imposed as part of Outline Planning Permission Ref: 4963/16
Informative Note: In the event that the education land does not come forward for that purpose the Committee would be minded to support a community based use for that land.
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