Agenda item

Outline planning application for up to 400 dwellings and 3 hectares of employment (Class E c and g and B2), access, open space, landscaping, alternative natural recreational greenspace (ANRG) and drainage attenuation (Outline Application with details only of Access) 

 

RECOMMENDED:

 

Delegated Authority be given to the Service Manager (Development Management) to GRANT OUTLINE PLANNING PERMISSION subject to:

 

i)               the prior completion of an agreement pursuant to Section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act to secure the matters set out in the report: and

 

ii)              the imposition of the conditions set out in the report 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.

 

 

Details: 

 

Outline planning application for up to 400 dwellings and 3 hectares of employment (Class E c and g and B2), access, open space, landscaping, alternative natural recreational greenspace (ANRG) and drainage attenuation (Outline Application with details only of Access). 

 

Public Participants: 

 

Mrs Jane Piper Barton Wilmore (Agent) 

 

Mr Michael Stilton (Objector) 

 

Ms Janet Georgiou (Objector)  

 

Cllr Jeremy Heron (Ringwood South Ward) 

 

Cllr Philip Day (Ringwood Town Council)  

 

Additional Representations:

 

None.

 

Comment:

 

The Presenting Officer referred Members to the written update sheet and provided a verbal update to correct a sentence in the report, where on page 35, paragraph 6.12.10, the second line should read ‘maximum’ not ‘minimum’.

 

The Presenting Officer also explained that this application should be considered with regard to the new planning context, including the new Ringwood Neighbourhood Plan and how the Affordable Housing Offer had changed since March 2023.

 

Decision:

 

Delegated Authority be given to the Service Manager (Development Management) to GRANT OUTLINE PLANNING PERMISSION subject to:

 

i) the prior completion of an agreement pursuant to Section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act to secure the following:

 

·        Affordable Housing (AH) - 28% of the proposed dwellings as Affordable Housing in a policy compliant mix, in which the affordable housing mix be comprised of 70% dwellings for rent, split equally between social and affordable rent, and 30% intermediate or affordable home ownership tenures including shared ownership. Phasing delivery of units to be agreed, and long-term retention as AH.

 

·        Biodiversity net gain (BNG).

 

·        Community use off site contribution -There will be a requirement to secure appropriate contributions to community facility off the site, together with any further agreement needed to secure delivery and ongoing community use ·

 

·        Public Open Space

 

·        There will be a requirement to secure a policy compliant level of public open space within the development to an approved design.

 

·        There will be a requirement to secure a policy compliant level of children's playspace within the development to an approved design

 

·        There will be a requirement to secure the long term maintenance of the Public Open Space and Childrens Play Areas

 

·        Education Contribution - There will be a requirement for developer to pay a contribution of £1,721,100 to primary and junior education provision.

 

·        ANRG provision and maintenance and monitoring

 

·        ANRG Mitigation Land

 

·        There will be a requirement to secure a policy compliant level of ANRG land in accordance with approved designs, and to secure permanent public access to these areas in an appropriate phased manner.

 

·        There will be a requirement for a detailed management plan and contribution to future monitoring of the SANGS. The SANG must be laid out as agreed together with a Habitat Mitigation Scheme and made available for use prior to first occupation of any Dwelling on the land.

 

·        There will be a requirement to secure the long-term maintenance of the ANRG land and associated maintenance contributions.

 

·        Habitat mitigation for recreational impact – non infrastructure access and management contributions per dwelling as per standard formula.

 

·        POS provision and maintenance including play spaces – triggers for implementation, management arrangements to ensure long term public access and proper management and maintenance of those areas.

 

·        Flooding and drainage - There is a requirement for the developer to provide a flood mitigation scheme prior to first occupation, together with its maintenance and long-term management. There is also a requirement to provide a surface water drainage scheme on site, together with its maintenance and long-term maintenance.

 

·        Air quality assessment monitoring contribution in line with Local Plan policy.

 

·        Off-site highway works -There will be a requirement to secure the provision, implementation, timing and delivery of the accesses, junction and associated highway works along the A31 Slip Road, Southampton Road and Hightown Road.

 

·        There will be a requirement to secure the provision, implementation, timing and delivery of a link road to an adoptable standard between the A31 Slip Road and Hightown Road. The relief road shall be implemented and made available for use prior to the occupation of the 200th Dwelling.

 

·        The internal relief road will need to be offered for adoption to the highway authority.

 

·        There is a requirement to provide a footpath along the northern side of Hightown Road towards Crow Lane.

 

·        There is a requirement to provide a crossing point along Hightown Road.

 

·        There is a requirement to secure a financial contribution towards a new footpath link from the application site through the existing Ash Grove play area to the existing public footpath in Ash Grove.

 

·        There will be a requirement to make a financial contribution towards the maintenance of PROW 34.

 

·        There will be a requirement to pay the Travel Plan approval and monitoring fees, and a need to provide a surety mechanism to ensure implementation of the travel plan.

 

·        There is a requirement to secure sustainable travel improvements including new bus stop(s) on Eastfield Lane and provision of a financial contribution towards a taxi-share scheme to cover the hours of 0700 and 1900 Monday to Friday and 1000 and 1600 on Sunday and bank holidays and the re-routing of an existing bus service through the site along the link road within six months (or as otherwise agreed with the Planning Authority in consultation with the bus operator and Highway Authority) of the link road being open to through traffic ·

 

·        A pedestrian crossing with dropped kerbs, pram ramps and tactile paving on the corner of Hightown Gardens/ Hightown Road together with footpath realignment.

 

·        A pedestrian crossing with dropped kerbs, pram ramps and tactile paving on the corner of Old Stacks Gardens/ Hightown Road.

 

·        A pedestrian crossing with dropped kerbs, pram ramps and tactile paving on the corner of Hightown Road/ Eastfield Lane

 

·        A pedestrian crossing with dropped kerbs, pram ramps and tactile paving on the corner of Woodford Close/ Eastfield Lane.

 

·        Three pedestrian crossing with dropped kerbs, pram ramps and tactile paving along Ash Grove · Re-location of Bus stop along Eastfield Lane/ Ash Grove · financial contribution towards a new footpath through the existing play area to the west of the site to link onto Ash Grove 39.

 

·        A pedestrian crossing with dropped kerbs, pram ramps and tactile paving along Hightown Road opposite bus stop and near Ash Grove.

 

·        Crossing along Eastfield Lane at the end of the pedestrian/cycle link within the site.

 

·        A pedestrian crossing with dropped kerbs and tactile paving along Parsonage Barn Lane/ Cloughs Road.

 

·        A pedestrian with dropped kerbs, pram ramps and tactile paving along Eastfield Lane/ Cloughs Road.

 

·        A pedestrian crossing with dropped kerbs, pram ramps and tactile paving along Eastfield Lane/ Eastfield Court.

 

·        Eastfield/Southampton Road Contraflow cycle lane, road marking and signage to provide more direct route to Gorley Road for northbound cyclist.

 

·        Seek to remove stiles/narrow kissing gates to improve access to Footpath 34 and review the potential to upgrade the route to a multi-use path. This would enable more users to use the route between residential areas to the west and the countryside to the east via Milky Down Back Lane.

 

·        Provision of a full Travel Plan with bond, monitoring fees and approval fees.

 

·        Other Mitigation Contributions and Measures.

 

·        There will be a requirement to secure the New Forest Access and Visitor Management Contribution, the New Forest (recreational impact) Monitoring Contributions and the New Forest Air Quality Monitoring contributions in full.

 

·        Monitoring contributions

 

ii) the imposition of the conditions set out in the report 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

 

 

Cllr M Wade was not present for this item and therefore did not participate.