Agenda item

Construction of 60 dwellings; creation of two new accesses from Hill Street, parking, landscaping, open space (including ANRG) and associated works

RECOMMENDED:

Delegated Authority be given to the Service Manager Development Management to GRANT PERMISSION subject to the completion of a planning obligation entered into by way of a Section 106 Agreement and the imposition of the conditions set out in the report.

Details:

Construction of 60 dwellings; creation of two new accesses from Hill Street, parking, landscaping, open space (including ANRG) and associated works

Public Participants:

Nick Whittington, Pegasus Group (Agent)

Additional Representations:

None

Comment:

Cllr Reilly, for transparency purposes, declared a non-pecuniary interest as the local ward councillor. He concluded there were no grounds under common law to prevent him for remaining in the meeting to speak and to vote.

Cllr Crisell declared a non-pecuniary interest as a member of Totton & Eling Town Council which had commented on the application.  She concluded that there were no grounds under common law to prevent her from remaining in the meeting to speak and to vote.

Cllrs Penny and Sleep declared a non-pecuniary interest as members of the Planning Committee of Totton & Eling Town Council which had commented on the application.  They concluded that as they had not participated or voted on the application there were no grounds under common law to prevent them from remaining in the meeting to speak and to vote.

The Case Officer referred to the update sheet published prior to the meeting. Within this, a briefing note had been circulated to all members of the Committee from the applicant. There were also a number of amended and additional conditions and an amendment to the recommendation to include a target of June 2024 for the completion of the Section 106 agreement.  A further update was reported at the meeting in relation to condition 19 (Surface Water Drainage), which would require the applicant to submit a revised drainage strategy, to address the location of a replacement pipe which as currently proposed would conflict with trees on the site.  It was noted that this was a small element of the drainage strategy and that the wider strategy had been approved by Hampshire County Council.

Decision:

Delegated Authority be given to the Service Manager Development Management to GRANT PERMISSION subject to:

(i)               The completion of a planning obligation entered into by way of a Section 106 Agreement to secure those matters set out below; such agreement to be completed by the end of June 2024:

Air Quality Monitoring contributions: £6,180

Recreational Habit Mitigation:

·        Infrastructure Habitat Mitigation Provision of 1.3ha of publicly accessible ANRG, with future transfer to Management Co. provision of management plan.

·        Phased delivery of ANRG

·        Non-infrastructure Habitat Mitigation (Access Management and Monitoring): £49,678

·        Bird Aware Solent: £45,892

Highways:

·        Provision of £90,000 towards A326/A31 southbound off slip junction capacity improvement project.

·        Provision of off site highway, bus stop and crossing improvements

·        Provision of £27,000 towards Green Lane Bridleway improvement project

·        Ensure vehicular access to adjoining land for development is not prevented

Education:

·        Provision of £247,571 towards Primary age school infrastructure

Monitoring Charges:

·        Recreational Habitat Mitigation Commencement Checks: £808.00

·        Affordable Housing Monitoring: £808.00

·        Recreational Habitat Mitigation on site monitoring: £11,608

·        Biodiversity Net Gain on site monitoring: £4,980

·        Public Open space on site monitoring: £6,542

Affordable Housing:

·        Secure 21 units in the proposed housing and tenure mix.

·        Secure phases provision.

Recreation

·        Secure informal open space provision of 032ha

·        Secure on site play area provision of 0.03ha

·        Phased provision prior to occupation of penultimate dwelling and transfer to management company

·        Provision of £23,880 towards formal public open space towards the provision and maintenance of offsite sports facilities to include one or more of the following:

MUGA Sports pitches in wider SS1;

Cricket pitch within locality of Totton;

·        Other off site sports facilities within the vicinity of the development;

(ii)              The imposition of the conditions set out in the report, update note and the rewording of condition 19 to require a revised drainage strategy