Agenda and draft minutes

Apologies for absence were received from Councillor Boyd and Councillor Scott.

To receive any declarations of interest.  Members are advised to consider the advice contained within the Declaration of Interest advice attached to this Agenda.  If a Member declares an interest, they should complete the Declaration of Interest Form

To consider the report of the Director of Place, copy attached for Members of the Committee.

Note: Copies of correspondence relating to applications received will be available for members’ perusal in the Members’ Room from 5.00pm on the Friday before the meeting until the date of the meeting.

Proposal: Outline planning application, with all matters reserved except for access, for a mixed-use urban extension comprising: up to 1,600 residential units (use class C3); residential care home (use class C2); two form entry primary school (use class F1); land for the expansion of the existing Birchington medical centre; mixed use centre (use class E, F1 and F2); and associated infrastructure including provision of a new strategic link road between Minnis Road and Manston Road, alterations to existing junctions and new access arrangements from Minnis Road, Park Lane, Canterbury Road and Manston Road/Acol Hill, a new recreational and leisure shared-use link between Minnis Road and Park Lane, green infrastructure including public open space and associated facilities, landscaping, formal and informal play areas, utilities (including drainage) and associated ancillary works and structures.

It was proposed by the Chair and seconded by the Vice-Chair: 

To defer and delegate the application for approval subject to safeguarding  conditions at Annex 1, and the submission of a legal agreement securing the  heads of terms as set out within the September committee report, which  includes review mechanisms for viability. 

Those conditions at Annex 1 being:

Timing and Plans

No development shall commence within any phase until details of the appearance, landscaping, layout and scale (hereinafter called the ‘Reserved Matters’) for that Phase have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The development shall be carried out in accordance with the details as approved.

GROUND:

As no such details have been submitted in respect of these matters as part of the application is in outline. In accordance with Section 92 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.

The application for the first Reserved Matters shall be made no later than the expiration of 3 years beginning with the date of this planning permission.  Applications for the approval of the remainder of the Reserved Matters shall be made to the Local Planning Authority before the expiration of 8 years from the date of this planning permission.

GROUND:

In accordance with Section 92 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.

3.  Each phase of the development shall be begun within two years of the date of approval of the final reserved matters to be approved for that phase.

GROUND:

In accordance with Section 92 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended by Section 51 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004).

4.  The development shall provide for not more than 1,600 dwellings, of which no less than 1% shall be made available for self or custom build housing plots, and the gross floor space provision across the development for other purposes shall not exceed that stated below:

Primary School – 2.05ha site / up to 2 form entry

Residential institution – 0.57ha site for use class C2 use

Medical Centre – 0.1ha of land to allow for expansion of / improvements to existing facility

Local Centre – 600sqm gross internal floor area (comprising use classes  ...  view the full minutes text for item 4.