Agenda item

Approved subject to various requirements to be set out in the minutes.

The Committee considered application 15/02068/OUT, an outline application for the erection of 40 no. dwellings with means of access to be assessed and all other matters reserved at Land North of The Green and adj. Oak Farm Drive, Milcombe for Trustees of the Estate of JW Tustian (deceased).

Richard Hazel, a local resident, addressed the committee in objection to the application.

Alex Hales, the applicant’s agent, addressed the committee in support of the application.

Councillor Heath proposed that application 15/02068/OUT be refused on the grounds of overdevelopment and highways concerns. Councillor Milne Home seconded the proposal. The motion was duly voted on and subsequently fell.

Councillor Clarke proposed that the application be approved. Councillor Blackwell seconded the proposal.

Resolved

That application 15/02068/OUT be approved, subject to:

a)           The applicants entering into an appropriate legal agreement to the satisfaction of the District Council to secure financial contributions as outlined in paragraph 5.42 and 5.43 of the planning officers’ report. 

b)           The comments of the Council’s ecology officer

c)            the following conditions:

1.            No development shall commence until full details of the appearance, landscaping, layout, and scale, (hereinafter called "the reserved matters") of this approved development have been submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority and the development shall be carried out as approved.

2.            In the case of the reserved matters, a valid application for approval shall be made not later than the expiration of one year beginning with the date of this permission.

3.            The development to which this permission relates shall be begun not later than the expiration of one year from the final approval of the reserved matters or, in the case of approval on different dates, the final approval of the last reserved matters to be approved.

4.            The development hereby permitted shall comprise of no more than 40 dwellings and shall be carried out in general accordance with the submitted design and access statement and those plans approved as part of the reserved matters applications. 

5.            Prior to the commencement of the development, a plan showing the details of the finished floor levels of the proposed dwellings in relation to existing ground levels on the site shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority. The development shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details.

6.            Prior to the commencement of the development hereby permitted, a detailed scheme for the surface water and foul sewage drainage of the development shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The approved surface water drainage scheme shall be carried out prior to commencement of any building works on the site and the approved foul sewage drainage scheme shall be implemented prior to the first occupation of any building to which this scheme relates. All drainage works shall be laid out and constructed in accordance with the Water Authorities Associations current edition ‘sewers for adoption’

7.            Prior to the commencement of the development hereby approved, full details of the means of vehicular access between the land and the highway, including position, layout, construction and drainage shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Thereafter, the means of access shall be constructed and retained in accordance with the approved details.

8.            Prior to the commencement of the development hereby approved, full details of pedestrian footpaths between the development and Main Road, and pedestrian access linking to the adjacent PROW’s to the north shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Thereafter, the means of access shall be constructed and retained in accordance with the approved details.

9.            Prior to the first occupation of any of the dwellings hereby approved, all of the estate roads and footpaths (except for the final surfacing thereof) shall be laid out, constructed, lit and drained in accordance with Oxfordshire County Council's ‘Conditions and Specifications for the Construction of Roads’ and its subsequent amendments.

10.         Prior to the commencement of the development hereby approved, an Arboricultural Method Statement (AMS), undertaken in accordance with BS:5837:2012 and all subsequent amendments and revisions and in accordance with the submitted Stage 1 Arboricultural Report  shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Thereafter, all works on site shall be carried out in accordance with the approved AMS

11.         Prior to the commencement of the development hereby approved full details of the provision, landscaping and treatment of open space/play space within the site together with a timeframe for its provision shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Thereafter the open space/play space shall be landscaped, laid out and completed in accordance with the approved details and retained at all times as open space/play space