Issue - meetings

[To consider the planning application.]

The Committee considered a report regarding 17/00671/OUT, outline application for residential development (up to 230 dwellings) with all matters reserved apart from access.

Resolved:

That the Strategic Director for Place be given delegated authority to grant planning application 17/00671/OUT subject to:

1. Completion of a Section 106 Agreement to include:

           For the whole development:

• Highway works, including traffic regulation orders and provision of a pedestrian crossing on Bushbury Lane
• New staff car park and pupil drop off/pick up for Bushbury Lane Academy
• Creation of a public open space in front of Bushbury Lane Academy including the removal of the acoustic fence
• Targeted recruitment and training
• Management company for external communal areas

If viable:

• 25% affordable housing
• 10% renewable energy

If not viable:

A reduction in affordable housing and renewable energy, commensurate with the lack of viability with the reduction applying on a pro-rata basis to all dwellings ready for occupation within three years of the date that a lack of financial viability is demonstrated and the full requirement applying on a pro-rata basis to all those that are not ready for occupation at that time.

2. Any necessary conditions to include:

• Outline conditions including submission of reserved matters
• Timing
• Phasing
• Construction Management Plan
• Drainage
• Electric vehicle charging points
• Levels
• Boundary treatments
• Cycle and pedestrian routes
• Ground remediation
• Noise attenuation
• Travel Plan
• Archaeology - requirement for a desk based assessment
• Implementation of landscaping

Implement in accordance with ecology recommendations