Agenda item

River

Demolition of existing buildings and construction of a part five/part six storey building to accommodate retail premises at ground floor level and 21 residential flats on the upper levels.

Discussion:

The Senior Planner outlined the planning application in detail and drew attention to the supplementary agenda advice sheet setting out a representation from Southern Water along with officer’s response.

With the agreement of the Committee, Councillor Tejan spoke on this planning application as Ward Councillor and outlined residents on the following issues:

·         Provision of parking

·         Pressure on local services

·         Poor planning for the removal of domestic waste.

He referred to other nearby developments whereby a condition had been imposed stating that occupiers of premises may not apply for parking permits and suggested that such condition be imposed upon this development if the Committee was minded to approve the planning application.

The Committee discussed the application noting the comments from the Ward Councillor.

The Senior Planner referred to the previous use of a condition to restrict the ability of occupiers of premises from obtaining parking permits and advised that a Planning Inspector had since ruled that such condition was not permissible as it related to a matter that was outside the application site. Therefore, this issue was now being covered through Section 106  agreements and had been included in the proposed Section 106 for this particular planning application.

A Member drew attention to a correction to the total figure listed in the committee report relating to the level of funds being sought via Section 106 agreement for Children’s Services. This required correction to read £21,507.20.

Decision: 

Approved subject to:

A)   The applicant entering into a Section 106 agreement to secure the following:

I           The development as 'Car Free', by precluding future occupiers from obtaining parking permits, including if required an undertaking to pay the Council's costs in regard to amending the relevant Traffic Regulation Order to preclude future occupiers of the development from obtaining such parking permits;

            II          A contribution of £9,826.95 based on an occupancy ratio of 2.44 for the 21 flats towards the provision of local health facilities.

            III         A contribution of £2,745.90 based on an occupancy ratio of 0.03 for the 11 x two bedroom flats towards the provision of nursery school facilities.

            IV        A contribution of £8,236.80 based on an occupancy ratio of 0.09 for the 11 x two bedroom flats towards the provision of primary school facilities.

            V         A contribution of £7,893.60  based on an occupancy ratio of 0.06 for the  11 x two bedroom flats towards the provision of secondary school facilities.

            VI        A contribution of £2,631.20 based on an occupancy ratio of 0.02 for the 11 x two bedroom flats towards the provision of sixth form school facilities.

            VII       An open space contribution of £31,274.25 based on an occupancy ratio of 1.33 for the one bedroom units, 2.44 for the two bedroom units and a contribution of £777 per person to be spent on improvements in the locality of the application site in consultation with Ward Councillors.

            VIII      A contribution of £5,247.90 based on an occupancy ratio of 2.45 per units and a contribution of £233 per person towards improvements within Great Lines Heritage Park.

            IX        A contribution of £4,925.18 (£223.58 per unit) towards appropriate mitigation measures within Special Protection Areas.

            X         To pay the costs of the removal and possible replacement of the street tree on Church Street.

B)           Conditions 1 – 19 as set out in the report for the reasons stated in the report.