Issue - meetings

Recommendation: Conditional Approval.

Proposal: Reserved Matters application Pursuant to Outline planning consent O/2013/0346 for the erection of 86 dwellings including internal access roads, garages, parking spaces, SuDs attenuation, open space, Play Area, Allotment and associated landscaping enhancements.

Applicant: Taylor Wimpey.

The Committee received and reviewed a report about this application, set out in agenda pages 13 to 52. 

The Committee were advised that the Members’ Update included:

·           The addition of various plans to condition 2;

·           An amendment to condition 3 to include the word ‘not;

·           A clarification to condition 5 regarding the allowance of a fanlight window to allow for ventilation;

·           An amendment to the reference number for the drainage statement for condition 8;

·           An amendment to condition 9 to change the trigger from prior to commencement to prior the 50^th occupation;

·           A clarification that Highways comments were received and that the highways Officers were satisfied with the parking and access roads within the site;

·           A typographical clarification to the neighbour comments;

·           A clarification as to why allotments were still mentioned in the report;

·           A clarification to the separation distance to the end of the rear garden boundary of houses;

·           A clarification as to the garden depths;

·           A correction to the parking numbers.

Nina Sharp, Agent for the application, spoke in favour of the application. She stated that the application would positively enhance the character of the surrounding area, including the Church Lane frontage area. She added that vehicles would have access to the site from Church Lane. Nina stated that all existing trees on the site would be preserved and supplemented with local species as part of the application.

Members queried the distance of the site to the allotments. In response Christopher Howard, Case Officer, stated that the allotments would be adjacent to the site with some additional allotments to the North of Church Lane.

Carl Doran asked about the provision of affordable housing at the proposed development. Christopher Howard stated that the overall provision of affordable housing across the wider development site was in accordance with the S106 agreement. He added that the majority of the affordable housing was in the north of the site, with a further 10% commuted off site.

RESOLVED: That application 181366 be approved subject to the conditions set out in agenda pages 14 to 17, and the amendments to conditions 3, 5 and 9 as set out in the Members’ Update.