Agenda item

To consider a mixed use development of 296 dwellings, play area, Community House and public open space and an Outline application for up to 3,100 square metres of Class B1 (Business) floorspace and access.

(NOTE:  No matters are reserved for the residential element of the application.  In terms of the B1 element, all matters, except for access, are reserved for later consideration.)

Applicant:  Persimmon Homes South Midlands

(Report attached – Site Plan under separate cover)  

Mixed use development of 296 dwellings, play area, Community House and public open space, and Outline Application for up to 3,100 square metres

of Class B1 (Business) floorspace and access

Applicants:  Persimmon Homes South Midlands

Ms Kate Tait, for the Applicant, addressed the Committee under the Council’s public speaking rules.

RESOLVED that

having regard to the Development Plan and to all other material considerations, authority be delegated to the Head of Planning and Regeneration Services to GRANT Planning Permission, subject to:

1)            The satisfactory completion of a Section 106 Planning Obligation ensuring:

a)            a contribution is provided towards education provision including both financial and land assets relating to the provision of a new school;

b)           arrangements are put in place for the provision and maintenance of the on-site open space, maintenance of the   play equipment and contributions or other mechanisms towards off-site playing pitch provision;

c)            89 residential units to be provided as affordable housing and retained as such in perpetuity (insofar as Right to Buy or Acquire legislation permits);

d)           a contribution is provided towards the provision of wheelie bins for each dwelling on the development; and

e)            Highways matters as agreed with the County Highways Authority;

f)             Town Centre strategy contributions;

2)            The Conditions and Informatives detailed on pages 37 to 44 of the main agenda report, subject to:

a)         the following Conditions being deleted:

Condition 10

Condition 11

Condition 21

Condition 22

b)        the following amended Conditions:

4.         Prior to the commencement of each phase of development (residential, or that covered by reserved matters), details of measures to enhance biodiversity shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  Where reserved matters are required, these details should be included within any landscaping reserved matters application.  Details of the location and specification of the proposed bat and bird boxes shall be included within each submission of information.  The development shall be implemented in accordance with the approved details.

            Reason:  In the interests of sustainability and biodiversity and in accordance with Policies CS2, B(NE)1a and B(NE)3 of the Borough of Redditch Local Plan No. 3;

15)      No part of the development hereby approved shall be occupied or brought into use until full details of a landscape management plan, to include long term design objectives, management responsibilities and maintenance schedules for all landscape areas (other than small, privately owned domestic gardens) and Nature Conservation proposals, has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  The landscape management plan shall cover a period of at least ten years from the commencement of occupation of the development and the approved plan shall be fully implemented  and all landscaping to which the plan relates shall continue to be maintained unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

            Reason:  To secure the effective and ongoing maintenance and management of landscape areas in the interests of visual amenity and community safety and in accordance with Policy CS.8 of the Borough of Redditch Local Plan No. 3;

16)      Prior to the commencement of development, details of the play equipment, surfacing and means of enclosure of the play area shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority. The equipment and associated works shall be implemented in accordance with the approved details prior to the occupation of the residential development.   

            Reason:  In the interests of having sufficient leisure facilities for the occupiers of the site and the wider area; and

3)            The satisfactory conclusion of the link road matter via either 1) or 2) of the options above.

(Officers reported on the need to make various amendments and deletions relating to the Section 106 Agreement and the Conditions set on in the main agenda, as detailed in the published Update Report, copies of which were provided to Committee Members and the public gallery prior to commencement of the meeting. 

Members also noted an oral update on the need to include a further resolution (Resolution 3 above)  in relation to the proposed link road to the boundary of the site to ensure that the proposed development would not prejudice future phases.)