Agenda item

To consider the report of the Service Lead City Development.

The Principal Project Manager (Development) (MD) presented the application for the approval of reserved matters of appearance, landscaping, layout and scale relating to the residential development comprising 380 dwellings, flexible retail and community space and the associated infrastructure, garaging, parking, landscaped open space, equipped children's play and public realm. (Pursuant to planning permission reference 10/2088/OUT granted on 6th February 2012).

The Principal Project Manager (Development) (MD) reported the following late representations:-

·         following discussions with the County Council as the Lead Local Flood Authority the County Council required an increase in the size of sewer drainage pipes which would need a separate discharge of condition application under the outline consent; and

·         request from the applicant for an additional condition to detail boundary treatment.

Russell Smith spoke in support of the application. He raised the following points:-

·         planning agent on behalf of Galliford Try Partnership and Waltco Properties Ltd.;

·         applicant has increased the number of affordable housing units;

·         presentations on the scheme were made to two meetings of the Planning Member Working Group and to the Design Review Panel, the latter commenting on the high standard of design; and

·         surface water drainage ponds will have very shallow sides to secure safety of children and the suggested fencing of the ponds will be addressed as part of the discussions on the boundary treatment.

He responded as follows to Members’ queries:-

·         on street parking will assist in respect of visits to the shop;

·         cycle parking incorporated into individual dwellings together with communal cycle parking for apartments;

·         high quality passivhaus design; and

·         road network designed to accommodate an extension of the bus service through the estate.

A Member thanked Galliford Try Partnership and Waltco Properties Ltd. for their engagement with the Pinhoe Village Action Group.

The recommendation was for approval, subject to the conditions as set out in the report.

The recommendation was moved and seconded.

RESOLVED that, subject to the completion of a satisfactory legal agreement securing the Habitats Mitigation contribution, planning permission for the approval of reserved matters of appearance, landscaping, layout and scale relating to the residential development comprising 380 dwellings, flexible retail and community space and the associated infrastructure, garaging, parking, landscaped open space, equipped children's play and public realm. (Pursuant to planning permission reference 10/2088/OUT granted on 6th February 2012) be APPROVED, subject also to the following conditions:-

1)         All conditions imposed on notice of outline approval ref 10/2088/01 are hereby reiterated in as much as they relate to the development and have yet to be discharged in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

Reason: To safeguard the rights of control by the Local Planning Authority in respect of the reserved matters.

2)         The development hereby permitted shall not be carried out otherwise than in strict accordance with the submitted details received by the Local Planning Authority on 13th August and 24th November 2019, and the specific drawings referred to on the Clifton Emery Design Register of Drawings ref 170304 S 04 L and Hydrock Document Issue Record ref C-07799 A (both of which were received on the 20th December 2019) as modified by other conditions of this consent. Notwithstanding the above, the following drawings are not approved:

            Proposed Drainage Layout (C-07799-C020P03)

            Exceedance Flood Route Layout (C-07799-C021P03)

Reason: In order to ensure compliance with the approved drawings and taking into account the advice of Devon County Council as Lead Local Flood Authority.

3)         No individual dwelling hereby approved shall be occupied until it has been provided with cycle parking/storage facilities in accordance with details which shall previously have been submitted to and approved in writing by, the Local Planning Authority.

Reason: To ensure adequate facilities are provided in the interests of encouraging the use of sustainable modes of transport by residents of the development.

4)         Prior to the construction of any culvert or footway/cycleway that runs over or adjacent to the water course, a detailed Approval In Principle for the culvert or footway/cycleway shall be submitted and approved in writing by the Local Highway Authority (Devon County Council).

Reason: To ensure the integrity of adjacent structures and land.

5)         Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 3 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015, and any Order revoking and re-enacting that Order with or without modification, no development of the types described in the following Classes of Schedule 2 shall be undertaken on any dwelling within the development without the express consent in writing of the Local Planning Authority other than those expressly authorised by this permission:-

Part 1, Class A extensions and alterations

Part 1, Classes B and C roof addition or alteration

Part 1, Class E swimming pools and buildings incidental to the enjoyment of the dwelling house   

Part 1 Class F hard surfaces

Reason: In order to protect residential and visual amenity and to prevent overdevelopment.

6)         Notwithstanding the fact that condition 20 of outline permission ref 10/2088/01, relating to the submission of a Construction Environmental Management Plan (CEMP), was discharged by virtue of application no. 13/3923/32 the approved CEMP only related to the Quarry re-profiling works and not the subsequent residential development. Consequently, prior to the commencement of the residential development works comprised in this application a further CEMP relating specifically to those works shall be submitted to, and be approved in writing by, the Local Planning Authority. Thereafter the development shall be carried in accordance with the approved details.

Reason - In the interests of local amenity.

7)         No site machinery or plant shall be operated, no process shall be carried out and no demolition or construction related deliveries received or dispatched from the site except between the hours of 8am to 6pm Monday to Friday, 8am to 1pm Saturday and at no time on Sundays, Bank or Public Holidays.

Reason: To protect the amenity of the locality, especially for people living and/or working nearby.