Agenda item

River

Redevelopment of site to provide nineteen 1-bedroom flats, eleven 2-bedroom flats and two 3-bedroom flats with parking and bicycle provisions.

Discussion:

The Planning Manager outlined the planning application in detail and advised the Committee that since despatch of the agenda, the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) has been revised.  The application has been re-assessed against paragraphs 11d, 56, 59, 64, 105, 108, 124, 127, 163, 170, 175, 176, 178, 180, 181 and 190.  Whilst there was no change to the recommendation as set out in the report, the reason for proposed condition 5 required amendment to take account of the new NPPF.

The Committee discussed the report. Whilst it was noted that the applicant had worked with officers to address the concerns of local residents, it was considered that it would be helpful if an additional condition could be approved to require the applicant to produce a management plan as to how the building would be managed and maintained.

Members also requested that additional conditions be imposed requiring an automated gate to secure the undercroft parking and provision of secure cycle units.

A Member sought information as to the tenure of the affordable housing and the Planning Manager agreed to provide this information direct to the Member outside of the meeting.

The Planning Manager also agreed to check that condition 4 concerning an air quality scheme would also include the ground floor and lower ground floor of the development.

A Member suggested that for all future planning applications, the way in which the Section 106 agreement is worded insofar as it relates to bird mitigation be reconsidered.

Decision:

Approved subject to:

a) The applicant entering into a legal agreement under the terms of Section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 to secure:

i.       £32,253.76 on improvements at Town Hall Gardens and/or The Paddock.

ii.      £7,996.80 towards improvements to Phase 1 at Great Lines Heritage Park

iii.    £14,974.40 towards improvements to Bryant St Surgery, Chatham.

iv.    £4,974.08 towards provision of waste processing

v.      £18,267.20 towards engineering survey of the water tank at the Old Brook Pumping Station.

vi.    £18,541.71 for education broken down to £3,244.80 for Nursery and £8,900.02 for Primary at both to New Road Primary School and £6,396.89 for Secondary at Victory Academy.

vii.   £6,707.40 towards strategic measures in respect of the coastal North Kent Special Protection Area.

viii.  Affordable housing consisting of four one bedroom (one of which to be a wheel chair unit) and four two bedroom flats.

ix.    Meeting the Council’s costs.

b) Conditions 1 – 4 and 6 – 14 as set out in the report for the reasons stated in the report, condition 5 amended as set out below and new conditions 15 – 17 as set out below:

5          No development shall take place until a scheme showing details of the disposal of surface water, based on sustainable drainage principles, including details of the design, implementation, maintenance and management of the surface water drainage scheme have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

Those details shall include:

i)             a timetable for its implementation, and

ii)            a management and maintenance plan for the lifetime of the development which shall include the arrangements for adoption by any public body or statutory undertaker, or any other arrangements to secure the operation of the sustainable drainage scheme throughout its lifetime.

The development shall be implemented in accordance with the approved details.

Reason: To manage surface water in accordance with Paragraph 163 of the NPPF (2018).

15        No dwelling shall be occupied until details of secure private cycle parking provision in the form of individual lockers has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  The cycle parking shall be implemented in accordance with the approved details prior to the first occupation of any dwelling herein approved and shall thereafter be retained. 

Reason: To ensure the provision and permanent retention of bicycle spaces in accordance with Policy T4 of the Medway Local Plan 2003.

16        Prior to the first use of the parking area, details of an automated security system for the rear access shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  The automated security system shall be implemented in accordance with the approved details prior to the first occupation of any dwelling herein approved and shall thereafter be retained in full working order. 

Reason: To ensure satisfactory arrangements are in place to provide security in the interest of residential amenity in accordance with Policies BNE2 and BNE8 of the Medway Local Plan 2003.

17        No part of the development shall be occupied until a Management Plan has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority which sets out how the building is to be managed and maintained. The Management Plan shall be implemented in accordance with the approved details upon first occupation of the development and shall thereafter be retained.

Reason: To ensure satisfactory arrangements are in place to provide security in the interest of residential amenity in accordance with Policies BNE2 and BNE8 of the Medway Local Plan 2003.