Agenda and draft minutes

To receive any apologies or substitutions for the meeting.

Apologies were received from:

Cllr Howard Greenman

Cllr David Bowler (Substituted by Cllr Ruth Hopkinson)

To approve as a true and correct record the minutes of the previous meeting held on 21 August 2024 .

The minutes of the last meeting of the Committee held on 21 August 2024 were considered for approval by the committee.

Resolved

To approve the minutes of the previous meeting held on 21 August 2024 as a true and correct record.

To receive any declarations of disclosable interests or dispensations granted by the Standards Committee.

There were no declarations of interest.

To receive any announcements through the Chair.

There were no Chairman’s announcements.

The Council welcomes contributions from members of the public.

Statements

Members of the public who wish to speak either in favour or against an application or any other item on this agenda are asked to register no later than 10 minutes before the start of the meeting. If it is on the day of the meeting registration should be done in person.

The rules on public participation in respect of planning applications are linked to in the Council’s Planning Code of Good Practice. The Chairman will allow up to 3 speakers in favour and up to 3 speakers against an application, and up to 3 speakers on any other item on this agenda. Each speaker will be given up to 3 minutes and invited to speak immediately prior to the item being considered.

Members of the public and others will have had the opportunity to make representations on planning applications and other items on the agenda, and to contact and lobby their local elected member and any other members of the planning committee, prior to the meeting.

Those circulating such information prior to the meeting, written or photographic, are advised to also provide a copy to the case officer for the application or item, in order to officially log the material as a representation, which will be verbally summarised at the meeting by the relevant officer, not included within any officer slide presentation if one is made. Circulation of new information which has not been verified by planning officers or case officers is also not permitted during the meetings.

Questions

To receive any questions from members of the public or members of the Council received in accordance with the constitution which excludes, in particular, questions on non-determined planning applications.

Those wishing to ask questions are required to give notice of any such questions in writing to the officer named on the front of this agenda no later than 5pm on Wednesday 11 September 2024 in order to be guaranteed of a written response. In order to receive a verbal response, questions must be submitted no later than 5pm on Friday 13 September 2024. Please contact the officer named on the front of this agenda for further advice. Questions may be asked without notice if the Chairman decides that the matter is urgent.

Details of any questions received will be circulated to Committee members prior to the meeting and made available at the meeting and on the Council’s website.

The Committee noted the rules on public participation.

To receive details of completed and pending appeals and other updates as appropriate.

Councillor Chuck Berry in the Chair.

The Chairman invited Adrian Walker, Development Management Team Leader, to update the Committee on the pending and determined appeals as per the appeals report included within the Agenda Pack.

Following which, it was:

Resolved:

The Committee noted the appeals report for the period 9 August to 6 September 2024.

For Councillors to receive an update on land supply and windfall housing statistics.

Approval of all reserved matters comprising of the erection of 23 dwellings together with associated infrastructure and landscaping following Outline Planning Permission ref 20/08341/OUT.

Full Planning Application for 56 dwellings, associated parking, public open space, landscaping access, drainage works and associated infrastructure.

Public Participation

Mrs Janet Morgan spoke in objection of the application.

Mr Mike Gover, Mr Max Thurgood and Mr Nick Paterson-Neild spoke in support of the application.

Officers from the Development Management Area Team introduced the report

which recommended that the Committee approve planning permission, subject to conditions, for the erection of 56 dwellings, associated parking, public open space, landscaping access, drainage works and associated infrastructure.

The main issues which were considered material in the determination of the application were:

• Relationship to adjoining properties
• Environmental / highway impact

Members of the Committee then had the opportunity to ask technical questions to the officer, where the following was clarified:

• That originally, the land for the proposed application was designated as hybrid for mostly commercial and partly residential use and was now residential and should the application be approved, the housing would form part of the Council’s land supply pipeline and would be included in figures when the development begins.

• That the S106 did provide for community assets including early years, but that the area was considered sustainable regarding major amenities.

• Regarding Section 7.7 of the officers’ report, that the underlined paragraph was included to avoid erasing comments made even if they were subsequently deemed incorrect.

Debate

During debate, Councillors considered local resident’s submissions on the application. Councillors discussed potential flooding and drainage problems, including delegating these considerations to officers. Councillors raised potential issues with the enforcement of the proposed conditions should it be necessary.

During debate, a motion to approve subject to conditions was proposed by Cllr Chuck Berry and seconded by Cllr Sankey, following which it was:

Resolved

That information relating to drainage be published and communicated to Councillors

That the application be approved subject to the first completion of a S106 agreement requiring the following –

• Affordable housing – 40% Affordable housing ‘AH’ units on site including 22 AHs with tenure split of 14 no. Affordable Rent and 8 no. Shared

Ownership with the submitted mix of AH.

• Education – financial contributions towards local education provision.

Early Years: £122,654.00.

• Highways – £7,200 financial contribution towards the original Transport

Assessment / the provision and implementation of a Travel Plan. This

amount would be indexed up from 2017 to 2023.

• Waste Collection Facilities - £5,656

• Public Open Space - LAP will be 100 sqm and the off-site contribution of

£33,120 to cover the shortfall. In addition, a requirement for 2,616m² of

sports pitches which equates to an off-site contribution of £26,160.

• A monitoring fee for the S106

And subject to the following planning conditions:

1. Time Limit

The development hereby permitted shall be begun before the expiration of three years from the date of this permission.

REASON: To comply with the provisions of Section 91 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 as amended by the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004.

2. List of Approved Plans and Documents

The development hereby permitted shall be carried out in accordance with the list of approved plans and documents set out at  ...  view the full minutes text for item 73.

Any other items of business which, in the opinion of the Chairman, should be taken as a matter of urgency.

There were no urgent items.