Agenda and draft minutes

To confirm the minutes of the last meeting.

It was proposed by Councillor Nutley, seconded by Councillor Williams and

RESOLVED

The Minutes of the meeting held on 23 September 2025 were approved as a correct record and signed by the Chair.

If Councillors have any questions relating to predetermination or interests in items on this Agenda, please contact the Monitoring Officer in advance of the meeting.

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The Chairman to advise the Committee on any requests received from members of the public to address the Committee.

The Chair welcomed the public speaker to the meeting.

The Committee considered the application as below.

Reserved Matters application (appearance, landscaping, layout and scale) for the construction of 88 dwellings including 20% affordable housing, landscaping, public open space and associated site infrastructure; pursuant to Outline Planning Permission 19/00238/MAJ

The Principal Planning Officer (PPO)presented the application, which included updates following the Committee site inspection held on 2 October 2025. This was attended by the Chair, Cllrs Nuttall, P. Parker and Clarence, together with representatives from Abbotskerswell Parish Council and Newton Abbot Town Council. The PPO confirmed that there were no additional updates to those already referred to in the published Updates Document, namely clarification regarding CIL and the inclusion of revised drawing number KM-P2-6902 REV P1 (Sustainable Heating Strategy) instead of the drawing number PERU3010 6902 REV I (Sustainable Heating Strategy) referred to in recommended condition 1 in the Committee report.

The Committee presentation from the PPO set out in detail:

• The location of the application site in its wider context, clarification of the requirements of Local Plan Policy NA3, and access route linkages between Wolborough Barton part of the NA3 site to the west and the Langford Bridge area of NA3 to the west.
• The Planning history of the site with particular reference to the hybrid permission reference 19/00238/MAJ dated 24^th July 2020.
• The various parameter plans referred to in the hybrid permission, relating to land use and movement throughout the Langford Bridge area, building heights, residential density,and ecological mitigation, together with reference to the approved Masterplan and Design Code, and the phasing of development. The Committee was advised that the application site formed phase 2 of the overall development scheme at Langford Bridge.
• The reserved matters details approved under application reference 22/01151/MAJ for the adjoining phase 1 development which was under construction and nearing the final stages of completion, including reference to layout, housing mix and tenure, building heights, external finishing materials, boundary treatments, parking and EV charging points, section drawings showing street scenes, and photographs of the phase 1 development along Kingskerswell Road and along the primary route through the site.

The PPO’s presentation then concentrated on the Phase 2 development, the subject of the current application being considered. This part of the presentation included:

• Clarification of amendments to parts of the layout, dwelling orientation and building heights that had occurred from when the application was first submitted to the present submission, including provision on one bed units where none had formed part of the original submission. Also, the provision of additional sustainable linkages between the phase 2 and future phase 3 developments.
• Layout of the current development proposal with various measurements showing distances between dwellings themselves and to boundaries, lengths of gardens, road and footpath widths.
• Specific details setting out the proposed housing mix and tenure (with reference to the proposed mix compared to policy guidance and proposal including 18 affordable units to which no objections had been received from the Housing Enabling Officer), building heights and density (with comparison made to the parameter plans referred to earlier), external finishing materials, site  ...  view the full minutes text for item 117.

Appeal decisions made by the Planning Inspectorate were noted.

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