Agenda item

Officers drew Members attention to the supplementary and second supplementary agendas that had been issued.

Resolved:

That subject to the applicant entering into a S106 obligation by agreement by 20th January 2015 to secure the following:

i)          A financial contribution of £22,062, index linked towards the provision of education facilities

ii)         A financial contribution of £64,746, index linked for open space enhancement/ improvements and maintenance

and subject to the Coal Authority withdrawing its objection by no later than 20th January  2015

That the application be permitted subject to conditions relating to the following matters:

•           Standard Time limit condition

•           Approved plans/drawings/documents

•           Approval of all external facing and roofing materials

•           Inclusion of windows in side elevation of plots 21 and 22

•           Landscaping scheme

•           Details of boundary treatments, including to the rear of the adjoining commercial properties to block the existing gap

•           Construction Method Statement.

•           Provision of access drives, parking and turning prior to occupation.

•           Access to plots 4 to 11 to comply with submitted Cameron Rose Associates plan.

•           Width of driveway to plots 1 to 3 to be 4.5m for first 6m rear of the highway boundary.

•           Permanently closure of redundant access.

•           Driveways to be surfaced in a bound material for 5m from the highway boundary.

•           Surface water interceptors to be provided where driveways fall towards the public highway.

•           Contaminated land conditions

•           Site to be drained on a separate system with no surface water to be discharged into combined sewer network.

•           Provision of 10m access strip to public sewer crossing site.

•           Updating of ventilation system of adjoining fish and chip shop

•           Submission of a further noise assessment relating to noise from the adjoining industrial doors business and the details of the measures to be undertaken within the development to mitigate the impact of noise arising from that and other noise sources.  Implementation of the approved details.

•           Prior approval of a scheme for the provision, in perpetuity, of 6 affordable housing units within the development.  The scheme shall include the timing of the construction for the affordable housing, arrangements to ensure that such provision is affordable for both initial and subsequent occupiers and the occupancy criteria to be used for determining the identity prospective and successive occupiers of such units and the means by which such occupancy will be enforced.

·          Requiring works of location and treatment of the shaft adjacent to 24/26 Lower Ash Road, and any other conditions considered appropriate by the Head of Planning further to consideration of any further comments received from the Coal Authority

b) Should the matters referred to in (i) and (ii) above not be secured within the above period, that the Head of Planning be given delegated authority to refuse the application on the grounds that without such matters being secured the development would fail to secure provision for education; and   the provision of adequate public open space as applicable, or, if he considers it appropriate, to extend the period of time within which the obligation can be secured.  

c)         Should the Coal Authority not withdraw their objection to the proposal by the 20th January 2015 the Head of Planning be given delegated authority to refuse the application on the grounds that it has not been demonstrated that no significant risks to the development are posed by coal mining legacies and it has not been demonstrated that the application site is, or can be made, safe and stable for the proposed development, in accordance with the requirements of the NPPF, and any other reasons reflecting whether or not the above planning obligations have been secured by that date