Agenda item

21/01147/OUT - Land off Wood Lane, Higham on the Hill

Application for development of up to 61 dwellings, including a shop, open space, new access and associated works (outline-access only).

Late items received after preparation of the main agenda:

Consultations:-

NHS England have requested a contribution of £30,885.06.

Higham on the Hill Parish Council objections were summarised within the published committee report however they were reported as neighbour comments. For clarification their comments on the application were as follows:

1. Plans for access do not take into account of approximately 120 cars exiting onto a dangerous country lane.

2. More traffic onto Main Street is unacceptable

3. Visibility down Wood Lane is poor and increase in traffic will make it more hazardous

4. The development will compromise the safety of the Sustrans cycle route along Wood Lane

5. Loss of open countryside

6. Loss of Views

7. Urbanisation of a rural plot

8. Lack of infrastructure for existing residents

9. Increase carbon footprint

Appraisal:-

All of the above parish councils comments/objects have already been appraised within the original committee report.

Healthcare Facilities

1.2 The West Leicestershire CCG requests a contribution of £30,885.06 towards addressing the deficiencies in services in the closest surgery in Stoke Golding (Castle Mead Medical Centre). The practices are already experiencing capacity issues in relation to their premises and would need to make improvements to enable them to register new patients’ resultant of this development. An increase of 148 patients from the proposal would significantly impact on patient demand in the area.

The provision of a Health Care contribution is required for compliance with Policy DM3 of the adopted SADMP. The requirement of funding for Health Care Provision at identified local GP Surgeries, addresses the impacts of the development on existing and future need of this vital infrastructure provision, helping to meet the overarching social objectives contained within the NPPF in achieving sustainable development, thus making the obligation necessary. The identified increase in patients would have a direct impact on the GP practises in Stoke Golding, as set out in the request, arising from the additional demand on services directly related to the population generated from the development. The extent of the Health Care contribution is directly related in scale and kind to the development, the obligation is calculated using population projections applied to all developments of this typology.

1.3 The obligation sets out current capacity or otherwise of local services and how this proposal leads to direct impact, the developer is not obligated to provide contributions to address need in excess of that generated directly from the development, therefore the contribution fairly relates in scale and kinds to the development proposed.

Recommendation:-

Grant planning permission subject to:

· The completion within 6 months of this resolution a S106 agreement to secure the following obligations:

· Affordable housing at 40% with a split of 75% as social/affordable rented and 25% as intermediate tenure (shared ownership)

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

· Maximum of 100 square metres of shop floorspace (Use Class Ea)

· Marketing Strategy for the shop (Use Class Ea)

· On-site open space requirement of 1,330sqm informal/casual play space and a 20 year maintenance cost (minimum of £14,364.00)

· Off-site equipped open space contribution of £39,951.83 towards HIG04 and a 10 year maintenance cost (minimum of £19,280.88)

· Off-site outdoor sports provision contribution of £21,198.72 towards site HIG04 and 10 year maintenance of £10,072.32

· On-site accessibility natural green space requirement of 2,440sqm along with a 20 year maintenance cost (minimum of £34,648.00)

· Civic Amenity contribution of £3,021 towards Barwell Household Waste Recycling Centre

· Library services contribution of £1,850.00 towards provision of additional resources at Hinckley Library, Lancaster Road, Hinckley

· Education contribution of £556,918.51 to be used to accommodate the capacity issues created by the proposed development by improving, remodelling or enhancing existing facilities at Higham-on-the-Hill Church of England Primary School (£335,914.80), Redmoor Academy (£182,156.44) and Hinckley Academy and John Cleveland Sixth From Centre (£38,847.27)

· NHS Health care contribution (£30,885.06)

· Travel Packs (1 per dwelling)

· 6 month travel passes (2 per dwelling)

· Raised kerb provision at the nearest two bus stops (ID's 2032 & 2035) at a cost of £3,500.00 per stop (total of £7,000.00).

· Planning conditions outlined at the end of this report

That the Planning Manager be given powers to determine the final detail of planning conditions.

That the Planning Manager be given delegated powers to determine the terms of the S106 agreement including trigger points and claw back periods based on the terms agreed by the planning committee.

Minutes:

Application for residential development for up to 61 dwellings, including a shop, open space, new access and associated works.

Notwithstanding the officer’s recommendation that permission be granted, it was moved by Councillor Allen and seconded by Councillor Boothby that permission be refused due to the proposal being outside of the settlement boundary and therefore contrary to policy DM4 of the Site Allocations and Development Management Policies development plan document (2016). Upon being put to the vote, the motion was LOST.

Councillor Cartwright requested that, if members were minded to grant permission, the S106 agreement should include a requirement to market the shop for a period of 24 months. It was subsequently moved by Councillor Lynch, seconded by Councillor Cartwright and

RESOLVED –

(i) Permission be granted subject to:

(a) The completion within 6 months of this resolution a S106 agreement to secure the following obligations: