Agenda item

21/00096/OUT - Land north of Barton Road, Barlestone

Application for residential development for up to 55 dwellings (outline – acess only).

 

Late items received after publication of main agenda:

 

For information paragraph 5.3 – please note that Ivan Ould OBE is no longer a County Councillor and that his consultation response should be read as an objection from a member of the public and not a Councillor response.   

Consultations:-

Leicestershire County Council (S106 Obligations):

Revised Education requirement of £302,874.00 for the primary school contribution and a new post-16 sector requirement of £35,078.51.  

Leicestershire County Council (Drainage):

The minor amendments to the Masterplan do not impact surface water drainage, the LLFA advice remains the same – no objection subject to conditions.

Appraisal:-

The previous primary education requirement was for £240,768.00.  The primary education contribution has been revised because the cost multiplier in relation to primary education has been revised upwards.  The cost multiplier for a primary school place has been increased from £14,592 to £18,356 to reflect the information published in the 2021 Department for Education Report ‘National School Delivery Cost Benchmarking Report’ (May 2021).  The cost multipliers for the other education sectors remain unchanged. 

The requirement for primary education is therefore now calculated as follows:

Number of deficit places created by the development, rounded to 2 decimal places (16.5) multiplied by the DFE cost multiplier (£18,356) which equals £302,874.00.

A new post-16 sector requirement is requested. Previously, no post-16 requirement was requested as at that time (12/2/21) there was a surplus of capacity at Bosworth Academy.  A post-16 sector requirement is now requested because the Bosworth Academy has a net capacity of 377 and 441 pupils are projected on roll should this development proceed, and 2 are created by this development.  There are no other post 16 schools within a three mile walking distance of the site. A claim for an education contribution in this sector is therefore justified. In order to provide the additional post 16 school places anticipated by the proposed development, the County Council requests a contribution for the post 16 school sector of £35,078.51. This is calculated the number of deficit places created by the development, rounded to 2 decimal places (1.82) multiplied by the DFE cost multiplier in the table above (£19,327) which equals £35,078.51.  This contribution would be used to accommodate the capacity issues created by the proposed development by improving, remodelling or enhancing existing facilities at Bosworth Academy or any other school within the locality of the development.   

Both the contributions are considered to be CIL compliant as set out in paragraph 8.121 of the Committee Report.

The Agent has confirmed that the revised S106 requests do not impact upon the viability of the development.

 

Recommendation:-

The recommendation at paragraphs 1.1 and 11.1 of the Committee Report be updated to read as follows in relation to the Education contribution (updates are underlined for clarity):

·                Education contribution of £502,143.57 total to be used to accommodate the capacity issues created by the proposed development by improving, remodelling or enhancing existing facilities at Barlestone Church of England Primary School or any other school within the locality of the development (£302,874.00) and The Market Bosworth School (£164,191.06) and the Bosworth Academy (£35,078,51).

Minutes:

Application for residential development for up to 55 dwellings (outline – access only).

 

Whilst generally in support of the proposal, members felt clarification was required on the location as the address on the application was Barlestone yet the site was in the parish of Osbaston, which could affect the destination of the precept. Councillor Bray, seconded by Councillor Findlay, proposed an amendment that determination of the final terms of the section 106 agreement be delegated to the Director in consultation with the chair of Planning Committee and the ward member. They also requested that a note to applicant be added to reconsider reducing the speed limit to 30mph along Barton Road and that officers be asked to look into protecting the large Oak Tree by way of a tree preservation order.

 

Upon being put to the vote, the motion was CARRIED and it was

 

RESOLVED –

 

(i)            Permission be granted subject to:

 

a.    Completion within three months of this resolution of a S106 agreement to secure the following obligations:

 

·         Affordable housing at 40% (22 units) with a split of 75% of the units as social/affordable rented and 25% of the unites as intermediate tenure (shared ownership), meeting nationally described space standards;

·         Location connection requirement for the affordable housing for rent and cascade mechanism;

·         On-site open space minimum requirement of 400sqm local equipped area of play and 20 year maintenance cost (minimum of £70,240.00);

·         On-site open space minimum requirement of 924sqm of casual/informal play space alon gwith a 20 year maintenance cost)minimum of £9,979.20);

·         Off-site outdoor sports provision contribution of £19,113.60 towards site BARL10 and ten year maintenance of £9,081.60;

·         On-site open space minimum requirement of 2200sqm of accessibility natural green space along with a 20 year maintenance cost (minimum of £31,240.00);

·         Civic amenity contribution of £2,724.00 towards Barwell household waste recycling centre;

·         Library services contribution of £1,660.00 towards provision of additional resources at Market Bosworth Library, Station Road, Market Bosworth;

·         Education contribution of £502,143.57 total to be used to accommodate the capacity issues created by the proposed development by improving, remodelling or enhancing existing facilities at Barlestone Church of England Primary School or any other school within the locality of the development (£302,874.00) and The Market Bosworth School (£164,191.06) and the Bosworth Academy (£35,078.51);

·         NHS health care contribution of £27,847.18 for improvements to Barlestone branch surgery;

·         Travel packs (one per dwelling);

·         Six month travel passes (two per dwelling).

 

b.    Planning conditions contained in the officer’s report.

 

(ii)          The Director (Environment & Planning) be granted delegated powers to determine the final detail of the planning conditions;

 

(iii)         The Director (Environment & Planning), in consultation with the chairman and the ward councillor, be granted delegated powers to determine the final terms of the S106 agreement including trigger points and claw back periods;

 

(iv)         A note to applicant be added to request consideration of reducing the speed limit to 30mph along the length of Barton Road;

 

(v)          Officers be asked to look into protecting the large Oak Tree at the front of the site with a tree preservation order.

Supporting documents: