Decision details

NEWTON ABBOT - 19/00238/MAJ - Langford Bridge Farm - Hybrid planning application seeking full planning permission for part link road and vehicular access point to the site

Decision Maker: Planning Committee

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Decision:

It was proposed by Councillor Haines and seconded by Councillor Bullivant and

 

Resolved

 

Permission be granted subject to the following conditions:

A) The Applicant entering into a prior Section 106 Agreement to secure:

Affordable Housing 20%, split 70% affordable rent; 30% for sale); Affordable Housing transferred at 50% occupation of dwellings per development phase; 100% of Affordable Housing transferred at 75% occupation per development phase; 5% to be wheelchair accessible; 20% of the Affordable housing would be required to be delivered to step free (accessible/adaptable Part M4 L2) specification. Dwelling should be tenure blind and spread throughout the development; Affordable housing mix to meet housing need and agreed prior to the submission of each phase;

Provision of 5% custom build dwellings

Provision of GI/Provision of open space (children’s play spaces, formal parks and gardens, playing pitches, natural green space) and its management; Allotments to be provided onsite or contribution taken should the western side of NA3 not be brought forward;

Playing pitch contribution of £291,474. Plus a future maintenance contribution over

20 years along with a Sinking Fund;

Cirl Bunting contribution - £148,386.00

Safeguarded site for a 1FE primary school

Safeguarded land for two-way vehicular bridge to east of Langford Bridge

Safeguarded land for / marketing and delivery of a 279sqm community building for

Use Classes A1, A2, A3, D1 and D2

Travel Plan as set out in the accompanying Residential Travel Plan - £100 per dwelling;

Bus Contribution - £219,510.00 (£73170 per year for three years);

Toucan Crossing along with a commuted sum;

Shared cycle and pedestrian route to the Town centre - £200,000;

Delivery of the link road to the boundary;

Air Quality Management Area (AQMA), a contribution towards mitigation - £100 per dwelling if a fully costed project is identified;

Delivery of the link road to the boundary with the landowner to the west. Provisions for the transfer of land parcels at the north-west corner of the site to Teignbridge District Council to unlock delivery of the TDC land for provision of the link road and employment/education land;

200k contribution for a cycle route towards the town centre;

Provision of cycle path extension along Decoy Industrial Estate;

Employment site to cascade down to education if employment not viable.

 

PLANNING PERMISSION BE GRANTED subject to Conditions addressing, as a minimum, the following matters as well as any additional material matters arising from the receipt of further consultation responses, with the final drafting of conditions, their number, content and triggers to be delegated to the Business Manager – Strategic Place:

 

Full planning permission (link road and vehicular access points)

 

Development shall commence within 3 years of the date of this permission;

Development to proceed in accordance with the approved plans/documents;

Surface water details;

Link road gateway scheme to provide high quality design;

Hard surfacing to include detailed design of the footways/cycle path as well as other hard surfaces;

Soft landscaping details including tree lined avenue details within verges either side of highway;

Full highway engineering details;

Lighting strategy;

Construction Environmental Management Plan (CEMP) – Biodiversity and

Construction;

Landscape & Ecology Management Plan (LEMP);

Contaminated Land and Unsuspected Contamination;

Programme of archaeological work in accordance with a written scheme of investigation.

Outline planning permission / whole site as appropriate

Submission of reserved matters (Access, scale, appearance, landscaping and layout);

Reserved matters for first phase in no less than 3 years, all other reserved matters to be submitted within 10 years;

Development of each phase shall be begun before the expiry of 2 years from the date of approval of the final reserved matters for that phase;

All reserved matters shall be made within 10 years of the date of permission;

Development to be carried out in accordance with the approved plans;

Submission of phasing plan prior to reserved matters;

Limit on employment use – 22,000sqm B&C; B2 or B8; B1a up to 8,100sqm;

Removal of PD Rights for conversion to residential;

Prior to any RM a design code to be submitted and approved for all phases;

Existing and proposed ground levels plan;

Scheme of security measures – secured by design;

Site wide housing mix strategy;

Travel Plan;

Access, circulation and green space strategy;

Carbon reduction plan;

Electric vehicle charging facilities;

Written scheme of archaeology;

Retention of the cob barn at Langford Bridge Farm;

Surface water drainage scheme for each phase to be submitted prior to commencement of that phase;

Arboricultural Impact Assessment;

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Measure to avoid/mitigate/compensate impacts on biodiversity in accordance with

Appendix Biodiversity Section 9.5 of the ES;

Bespoke Greater Horseshoe Bat Mitigation Plan;

Detail of bespoke greater horseshoe bat roost;

Control of External Light Spill to maintain dark areas on Site and in surrounding areas;

Construction Environmental Management Plan - Biodiversity

Landscape and Ecology Implementation and Management Plan (LEMP) to be submitted to and approved for each phase prior to commencement of that phase;

Ecological monitoring to provide early warning of threats to bat habitat and commuting routes;

Removal of permitted development rights for wind turbines;

Submission of Scheme, Implementation, Verification, Reporting Unexpected

Contamination;

Construction Environmental Management Plan – CEMP: Construction;

All reserved matters applications shall be accompanied by a report clearly demonstrating the methods to be employed to stop noise, vibration and odour

Prior to commencement of the construction works, details of a lighting report and impact strategy shall be submitted;

No occupation of any dwelling in a phase until foul sewage disposal is provided in accordance with details first approved;

Notwithstanding the submitted parameter plans development will be located and designed to protect the residential amenity of Langford Bridge House and Langford Bridge Farm.

(11 in favour, 4 against, and 2 abstentions)

Publication date: 23/01/2020

Date of decision: 21/01/2020

Decided at meeting: 21/01/2020 - Planning Committee

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