Decision

Committee was minded to grant planning permission for application reference 2025/1264/01/DET:

(i)  Subject to a section 106 agreement to secure:

-  Training employment plan (TEMP) and associated £2500 monitoring fee;

-  15% affordable housing provision;

-  £181,216 (subject to indexation) contributions towards healthcare provision;

-  £1,124,947 contribution towards primary education provision (including fixtures and fittings);

-  £205,431 contribution towards special educational provision;

-  £40,536 contribution towards off-site allotment provision;

-  £12,784 contribution towards off-site Youth Play provision;

-  £259,424 contribution towards off-site sports facilities;

-  £54,000 contribution towards the existing NGP Community Officer role;

-  £58,538 contribution towards the delivery of a covered bus shelter on the northern side of Wagonway Drive;

-  Travel Plan and travel passes;

-  Requirement to deliver and maintain pedestrian route to the Town Centre;

-  Maintenance of highways until adoption;

-  Requirement to deliver and maintain the biodiversity net gain requirement (on and off site) and pay a monitoring fee of £8,566;

-  £16,542 contribution towards ecological mitigation at Havannah Nature Reserve;

-  £45,000 contribution towards NGP Wildlife Ecology Ranger;

-  Long term management and maintenance of SuDS, open space areas and landscaping;

-  Long term management and maintenance of play equipment;

-  £10,000 fee towards monitoring of SuDS maintenance.

(ii)  Subject to the following conditions:

1. 3 year consent;
2. List of approved drawings;
3. Submission of a phasing plan;
4. Details of materials prior to construction of dwellings;
5. Details of compliance with accessible and adaptable standards prior to construction of dwellings;
6. Details of play design and surrounding open space prior to occupation and timescale for implementation;
7. Details of proposed solar PV prior to installation;
8. Details of hard and soft landscape works prior to commencement;
9. Implementation of approved landscape works following first occupation;
10. No removal of landscape features in less in accordance with the approved plans;
11. No commencement until tree protection fencing and other measures have been erected on site;
12. Bat and bird boxes details prior to commencement;
13. Hedgehog friendly fencing details prior to commencement;
14. Great crested newt, common toad and hedgehog method statement prior to commencement;
15. Construction Ecological Management Plan prior to commencement;
16. Lighting plan prior to commencement;
17. Habitat Management and Monitoring Plan prior to commencement;
18. Details of off-site highways works to Brunton Lane be submitted prior commencement and implemented prior to first occupation;
19. Resurfacing of existing Brunton Lane footpath in line with approved details to be completed prior to occupation of 75th dwelling;
20. Construction Method Statement prior to commencement;
21. Precise details of highways works in any given phase prior to be approved prior to commencement of the phase;
22. No dwelling to be occupied until car parking associated with respective dwelling has been implemented;
23. Details of EV charging to be for any given phase prior to occupation;
24. Details of cycle parking for any given phase prior to occupation;
25. Precise final drainage details prior to commencement;
26. Construction Management Plan including construction and timing of paving;
27. Implementation in accordance with approved noise report;
28. Remediation strategy submitted prior to commencement;
29. Implementation of approved remediation strategy;
30. Controlling condition in the event unexpected contamination is found;
31. Programme of archaeological fieldwork completed prior to commencement;
32. Submission of archaeological fieldwork prior to occupation;
33. Publication of archaeological fieldwork report prior to occupation.

(iii)  It was also agreed that in the event that a satisfactory section 106 agreement covering the issues raised above is not received by 1 January 2027 that the application be refused for its failure to make adequate provision in this regard contrary to Policy DEL1 of the CSUCP, unless an extension of time is agreed to the satisfaction of the Service Manager, Planning in consultation with the Chair and Vice Chairs of the Planning Committee.

(iv)  It was also agreed that delegated authority be given to the Service Manager Planning, in consultation with the Chair and Vice Chairs of Planning Committee, to amend, add or omit conditions and heads of terms of the section 106 legal agreement, where appropriate, to ensure the application complies with relevant development plan policies and national planning guidance