Issue - meetings

Approved, subject to various requirements to be set out in the Minutes

The Committee considered application 19/01740/HYBRID, a 'Hybrid' planning application comprising outline planning permission (all matters reserved except for access) for B1 development (Use Classes B1a and/or B1b and/or B1c); highway works (including provision of a new roundabout at the junction between Vendee Drive and Wendlebury Road); creation of a wetland and landscaped areas and associated infrastructure works and full planning permission for a health and racquets club, associated access and car parking, outdoor tennis courts, air dome, outdoor swimming pool, spa garden and terrace, and associated landscaping at land adjacent to  Promised Land Farm, Wendlebury Road, Chesterton (1740) for Mr Kelvin Pearce.

Paul Troop, Bicester Bike Users Group, and Richard Cutler, local resident, addressed the Committee in objection to the application.

Mike Pollard, Banbury Ornithological Society, Emma Lancaster, agent for the applicant and Simon Parfitt, David Tucker Associates, addressed the Committee in support of the application.

Councillor Wood proposed that consideration of application 19/01740/HYBRID be deferred as the application should be considered alongside the recently submitted new application for Phase 1 of the Bicester 10 allocation and the highway works and obligations were not sufficient to mitigate the impact of the development. Councillor Sibley seconded the proposal.

At the request of the Chairman the Principal Planning Officer, Caroline Ford, and Joy White, Transport Development Control Lead at Oxfordshire County Council, addressed the Committee to explain the proposed development must be considered on its own merits and consideration of the two schemes together was not necessary or justified by Policy Bicester 10, which does not require a comprehensive approach to development of this allocation. The highway works and obligations requested were what has been considered necessary by Oxfordshire County Council as Local Highways Authority, to mitigate the impact of the development proposed.

Councillor Wood subsequently advised he was withdrawing his proposal to defer consideration of the application.

Councillor Sibley proposed that consideration of application 19/01740/HYBRID be deferred as the application should be considered alongside the recently submitted new application for Phase 1 of the Bicester 10 allocation and the highway works and obligations were not sufficient to mitigate the impact of the development. Councillor Middleton seconded the proposal.

The motion to defer the application was debated and on being put to the vote was lost and subsequently fell.

It was proposed by Councillor Clarke and seconded by Councillor Reynolds that application 19/01740/HYBRID be approved in line with the officer recommendation.

In reaching its decision the Committee considered the officers’ report and presentation, the addresses of the public speakers and the written update.

Resolved

(1)           That authority be delegated to the Assistant Director for Planning and Development to grant permission for application 19/01740/HYB, subject to:

(i)             the completion of a planning obligation under section 106 of the town and country planning act 1990, as substituted by the planning and compensation act 1991, to secure the following (and any amendments as deemed necessary):

a) Highway Works (1) - £598,404.24 (index linked)

b) Highway Works (2) - £50,000 (index linked)

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