Agenda item

Development of up to 196 Dwellings, including accesses from Cooks Lane and Pauletts Lane, provision of Public Open Space & Alternative Natural Recreational Greenspace and Drainage (Outline Application with details only of Access).

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 to secure the matters set out in the report and the imposition of conditions set out in the report.

Details:

Development of up to 196 Dwellings, including accesses from Cooks Lane and Pauletts Lane, provision of Public Open Space & Alternative Natural Recreational Greenspace and Drainage (Outline Application with details only of Access).

Public Participants:

Adam Bennett, Ken Parke Planning (Agent)

Gary Humphreys (Objector)

Paul Andrews (Objector)

Lindsey Templeman (Objector)

Additional Representations:

None

Comment:

Cllr Crisell declared a non-pecuniary interest as a member of Totton and 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 and Eling Town Council.  They concluded that as they had not expressed a view 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 reported an amendment to condition 13 relating to securing updated ecological surveys prior to the commencement of development and an amendment to the recommendation ii), which proposed to give the Service Manager Development Management delegated authority to amend or add conditions, as deemed appropriate.  This had been included in the update note circulated prior to the meeting.

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;

Air Quality Monitoring:

Provision of £109 per dwelling, total figure based on final number of dwellings approved.

Recreational Habitat Mitigation:

• Infrastructure Habitat Mitigation: Phased delivery of 4.12ha of publicly accessible ANRG, with future transfer to a Management Company provision of a management plan including arrangements for the funding of the ANRG maintenance and a mechanism to ensure that the ANRG is maintained and managed in perpetuity should the management company fail to exist or fail to undertake the maintenance of the land in accordance with any management plan.

• Provision of Non-Infrastructure Habitat Mitigation (Access Management and Monitoring) financial contribution appropriate to final housing mix. Currently:

£489.00 per 1 bed dwelling

£693.00 per 2 bed dwelling

£956.00 per 3 bed dwelling

£1,174.00 per 4 bed dwelling

• Provision of Bird Aware Solent financial contribution appropriate to final housing mix. Currently:

£465.00 per 1 bed dwelling

£671.00 per 2 bed dwelling

£875.00 per 3 bed dwelling

£1,029.00 per 4 bed dwelling

Highways:

• Provision of £1,500 per dwelling towards A326/A31 southbound off slip junction capacity improvement project.

• Provision of off site WCHAR pedestrian paths and crossing improvements • Provision of £315,811.00 towards pedestrian and cyclist improvements projects in Totton in accordance with HCC LCWIP.

• Provision of residents travel plan.

Education:

• Provision of £4,369.00 per dwelling (excluding 1-bed dwellings) towards Primary age school infrastructure

Affordable Housing:

• Secure 35% (at least 69 dwellings) of the scheme as affordable housing in the adopted size and tenure mix.

• Secure phased provision.

Recreation:

• Secure on site informal open space provision of 1.03ha

• Secure on site play area provision of 0.13ha

• Phased provision and transfer to management company, including arrangements for funding the maintenance and a mechanism to ensure that the POS is maintained in perpetuity should the management company fail to exist or fail to undertake the maintenance in accordance with any management plan.

• Provision of £398.00 per dwelling towards formal public open space towards the provision and maintenance of off site 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;

Monitoring Charges:

• Recreational Habitat Mitigation Commencement Checks: £847.00

• Affordable Housing Monitoring: £847.00

• Recreational Habitat Mitigation on site monitoring: £24,356.00

• Biodiversity Net Gain on site monitoring: £10,450

• Public Open space on site monitoring: £13,756.00

ii)                The imposition of the Conditions and any additional / amended conditions deemed necessary by the Service Manager (Development Management), having regard to the continuing Section 106 discussions to ensure consistency between the two sets of provisions.

Conditions/Reasons:

As set out in the report (Item 3c) and update note