Agenda item

To consider the report of the Head of Planning and Building Control.

(Report circulated)

The Development Manager presented the planning application for a redevelopment to provide 20 dwellings, parking, access to the highway, landscaping and associated works at the County Ground, Church Road, St. Thomas, Exeter.

The site had a planning approval for 100 residential units and this application was for the northern end of the site predominantly adjacent to Tin Lane. The fundamental change from the approved application was the removal of the three storey flats. The revised layout would provide a total of 20 residential units incorporating a one bedroom adapted flat with a carer’s bedroom.

The proposal would reduce the total number of residential units from 100 to 84 and would enable the widening of Tin Lane and the resiting of the internal access circulation Road adjacent to Tin Lane.

Members were circulated with an update sheet giving details of amended plans regarding changes to the disabled unit Plot 48.

The recommendation was for approval subject to a Section 106 Agreement which required affordable housing on site and a financial contribution towards the provision of community facilities, an education contribution, public transport improvements and traffic calming measures in the area and the conditions as set out in the report.

Mr Harris (agent) spoke in support of the application. He raised the following points:-

• this application would reduce the residential units on the site from 100 to 84
• would open up Tin Lane and improve amenity for potential residents
• had the support of the Highway Authority and planning officers
• there would be a purpose built ground floor flat for a disabled occupant and a carer
• No statutory consultee had objected
• the issues raised by the two letters of objection did not apply as this application was lower than the previous approval and would improve vehicle movement
• this proposal was a significant improvement on the previously approved scheme as there were fewer dwellings and better amenity space.

In answer to Members’ questions, Mr Harris clarified that the purpose built disabled unit would be slightly larger in size and would have a bedroom for a carer, the development would be designed with the home zone approach. He confirmed that the percentage of affordable housing had been agreed although the positioning within the development was still to be decided.

RESOLVED that planning permission for a redevelopment to provide 20 dwellings, parking, access to highway, landscaping and associated works be approved, subject to the completion of a Section 106 Agreement which requires affordable housing on site and a financial contribution towards the provision of community facilities, an education contribution, public transport improvements and traffic calming measures in the area and the following conditions:

1)         C05 - Time Limit - Commencement

2)         C15 - Compliance with Drawings

3)         C17 - Submission of Materials

4)         C23 - Permitted Development Restriction

5)         C35 - Landscape Scheme

6)         C37 - Replacement Planting

7)         C57 - Archaeological Recording

8)         C72 - Highway - Estate Roads etc

9)         No part of the development hereby approved shall be occupied until the on-site parking facilities together with any means of access shall have been provided in accordance with details that shall previously have been submitted to, agreed and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority and retained for those purposes at all times.

Reason: To ensure that adequate facilities are available for the traffic attracted to the site.

10)       No other part of the development hereby approved shall be commenced until adequate areas shall have been made available within the site to accommodate operatives' vehicles, construction plant and materials in accordance with details that shall previously have been submitted to, agreed and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority and retained for those purposes during the construction period.

Reason: To ensure that adequate facilities are available for the traffic attracted to the site during construction period.

11)       Notwithstanding condition no 2, no work shall commence on site under this permission until full details of the following have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority and the following shall thereafter be provided in accordance with such details:

a) windows to include materials, means of opening, reveals, cills and headers;

b) external doors;

c) rainwater goods;

d) lighting;

e) treatment of all boundaries;

f) parking area surfacing;

g) refuse storage;

h) location of site compound;

Reason: Insufficient information has been submitted with the application and in the interests of visual amenity.

12)       No development shall take place unless and until a detailed scheme of surface water drainage has been submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority. The scheme, which shall be designed in accordance with the principles of the "Framework for Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDs) in England and Wales" published by the National SuDs Working Group in May 2003, shall subsequently be implemented in accordance with the approved details prior to the development being brought into use.

Reason: To ensure that the development is satisfactorily drained in sustainable manner.

13)       Construction work shall not take place outside the following times; 8am to 6pm (Mondays to Fridays); 8am to 1pm (Saturdays); nor at any time on Sundays, Bank or Public Holidays.

Reason: In the interest of residential amenity.

14)       C70 - Contaminated Land

15)       The flood mitigation measure as set out within the submitted Flood Risk

Assessment as contained within the submitted Addendum to the Flood Risk Report dated 12 October 2009 and the earlier Flood Risk Addendum document dated December 2006 shall be complied with at all times unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

Reason: To mitigate against the risk of flooding.

In the event that a Section 106 Agreement is not completed within six months of the date of this committee meeting, authority be delegated to the Head of Planning and Building Control to refuse permission for the reason that inadequate provision has been made for the matters which were intended to be dealt with under the Section 106 Agreement.

(Report circulated)