Agenda item

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WARD NAME                                                  Bere Ferrers

APPLICATION NUMBER                                     3424/19/FUL                            

LOCATION                                                      "Field at Sx 453 669, Adjacent to Woolacombe Road", Bere Alston

DEVELOPMENT                                              READVERTISEMENT (Revised Plans Received) Application for 31no. new dwellings and associated access road and pedestrian

 

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WARD NAME                                                  Tavistock North

APPLICATION NUMBER                                 2672/20/HHO

LOCATION                                                      31 Glanville Road, Tavistock

DEVELOPMENT                                              Householder application for proposed ground

floor extension to dwelling house and

                                                                        replacement garage roof

 

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WARD NAME                                                  Milton Ford

APPLICATION NUMBER                                 0016/20/OPA                        

LOCATION                                                      Land to the rear of Edgcumbe Terrace,                                                                                  Edgecumbe Road, Milton Abbot

DEVELOPMENT                                              READVERTISEMENT (Revised plans received and amended development description) Outline application with all matters reserved except access and siting for the erection of 5 dwellings (Resubmission of 0889/19/OPA)

           

*DM&L 58

 

The Committee proceeded to consider the application(s) that had been prepared by the Development Management Specialists and considered also the comments of the Town and Parish Councils together with other representations received, which were listed within the presented agenda report and summarised below, and RESOLVED that:

 

(a) Application No: 3424/19/FUL Ward: Bere Ferrers

 

Site Address: “Field at SX453 669, adjacent to Woolacombe

Road” Bere Alston.

 

Development: READVERTISEMENT (Revised plans received)

Application for 31no. new dwellings and associated access road and pedestrian link.

 

This application was deferred at the previous DM&L Committee in order to investigate the two junctions (Collytown Cross and the junction between The Down and the B3527). Other matters raised at that meeting including solar panels, road surfacing and lighting have been addressed.

 

The Planning Officer confirmed since the last meeting further letters of representation had been received, however they were regarding issues already raised.

 

Speakers included:

Objector – Mr Graham Reed

Parish Council Representative – Cllr R Musgrave

 

RECOMMENDATION: Delegate to Head of Practice Lead Development Management, in conjunction with Chairman to conditionally grant planning permission, subject to a Section 106 legal obligation, for the following contributions towards:

 

- DCC Education -£16,830.00 - OSSR: Off-site Play Contribution of

£20,073.60, towards improvements to, and on-going maintenance of, play facilities at the Recreation Ground and/or the Parish Hall and/or Underways at the discretion of the Council Off-site Sports Contribution of £25,835, towards improvements to, and on-going maintenance of, the changing rooms at the Recreation Field, static exercise equipment in the village of Bere Alston and improvements to the basketball area behind the village hall. - Affordable Housing - 9 units. Plots 13, 24 and 27 shared ownership and plots 25, 26, 28, 29,30 and 31 social rented units - Tamar Estuary Special Area of Conservation £14,597.73. - Movement of the 30 mph sign 70 metres to the south east of the site entrance. £5000.00 to carry out the TRO.

 

Conditions (list not in full)

1. Time limit

2. Accord with plans

3. Materials to be agreed before development proceeds beyond slab level.

4. Full details of the hard and soft landscaping of the public open space, including play equipment , fencing, surfacing, bins and benches.

5. Archaeological scheme of investigation

6. Unexpected contamination

7. No commencement until details of access road; ironwork; site compound

8. No occupation until cul de sac carriageway including turning head has been laid out and kerbed, drained and constructed; footways have been provided; visibility splays have been laid out; street lighting for the spine road has been erected where appropriate (based on ecology constraints) ; car parking has been completed.

9. Once constructed the carriageway, turning head, footways and footpaths shall be maintained.

10. No external lighting shall be erected on the site until the type, direction and lux level of that lighting being first submitted to and agreed by the Local Planning Authority.

11. Construction management plan

12. PD removal for sheds, hard surfaces, in the rear garden to protect the net gain in biodiversity

13. Drainage condition

14. Prior to occupation, details of the proposed garden gates shall be submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority

15. Prior to occupation of Plots 17, 22 and 11 the route through shall be completed and open for pedestrians to use.

16. Details of the planting for northern hedge shall be submitted to and agreed by the LPA prior to commencement beyond slab level and planting shall be implemented in the next available planting season

17 The open space in the middle of the site shall be retained as open space and shall not be used for any other purpose without the prior written consent of the local planning authority.

18. Hedge protection details.

19 Hedge retention.

20 Prior to their installation details of the boundary treatments shall be submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority.

21. LEMP

22. Development to be in accordance with Energy Statement

23. Development to be carried out in accordance with the Goetechnical / geoenvironmental report

24 Development to be in accordance with the biodiversity report.

 

During discussion, the following points were raised:

 

·         The solicitor believed the Neighbour Plan was considered in the report and officers made an assessment with reason.

The NP showed that an access onto Woolacombe was identified as an acceptable alternative.

·         Concerns over current busy use of Woolacombe Road.

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COMMITTEE DECISION: REFUSED

Policy’s H2 and T3 in the Bere Peninsula Neighbourhood Plan identify a preference for the access to this allocated site being off the B3257 road. The application has not sufficiently demonstrated that the use of the preferred access is not feasible, and the proposal is therefore in contravention of Policies H2 and T3 of the Plan. As such the proposal also fails to meet Policy DEV29.1 and DEV29.2 in the Plymouth and South West Devon Joint Local Plan.

 

 

(b) Application No: 2672/20/HHO Ward: Tavistock North

 

Site Address: 31, Glanville Road, Tavistock.

 

Development: Householder application for proposed ground floor extension to dwelling house and replacement garage roof.

 

Speakers included:

Applicant – Claire Pearce

Town Councillor – Cllr Graham Parker

Local Ward Member – Cllr Jeff Moody

 

RECOMMENDATION: Approval

 

Conditions:

1. Standard time limit

2. Adherence to plans

3. Samples of materials

4. Unexpected contaminated land

5. Sample of the slate or stone to be used on the parapet

 

During discussions the following points were made:

 

·         Heritage Impacts Assessments should be made compulsory rather than a choice on future applications within a Conservation Area. This will be amended in the future planning review .The Committee were advised they could ask for an impact assessment if they felt they had insufficient information to determine the application before them.

·         That details of the coping above slab level to be agreed as a condition

 

COMMITTEE DECISION: Approval

 

Subject to the above conditions and details of the coping to be

agreed above slab level.

 

 

(C) Application No. 0016/20/OPA Ward: Milton Ford

 

Site Address: Land to the rear of Edgcumbe Terrace, Edgecumbe

Road, Milton Abbot.

 

Development: READVERTISMENT (Revised plans received and Amended development description) Outline application with all matters reserved except access and siting for the erection of 5 dwellings (Resubmission of 0889/19/OPA).

 

Speakers included:

Objector – Mr Richard Allen

Agent - Mr Ed Persse

Ward Member – Cllr Neil Jory

 

RECOMMENDATION: Refusal

 

1. The proposal is not considered to constitute sustainable development in that it is tandem backland development which fails to have proper regard to local character and the development context of the village, contrary to the good design aims of the NPPF, JLP Policies SPT1, TTV2, TTV25, DEV10 and DEV20 of the Plymouth and South West Devon Joint Local Plan and the JLP Supplementary Planning Document.

 

2. The proposal is considered to be an unneighbourly form of development, likely to result in a loss of privacy and overlooking to the existing dwellings in Edgcumbe Terrace, contrary to the aims of the NPPF in relation to good design, particularly (but not limited to) section 12, DEV1, DEV10 and DEV20 of the Plymouth and South West Devon Joint Local Plan and Appendix 1 of the SPD.

 

3. The proposal fails to demonstrate that adequate methods of surface water drainage can be provided and maintained through the lifetime of the development, contrary to section 14 of the National Planning Policy Framework, Plymouth and South West Devon Joint Local Plan Policy DEV35, and DEV35.4 of the JLP Supplementary Planning Document.

4. The development fails to demonstrate that there would not be harm to the setting of heritage assets including the Grade 1 listed church and the conservation area, or that a very low level of harm would be outweighed by demonstrable public benefit, contrary to the National Planning Policy Framework, particularly paragraphs 193, 194, 195 and 196 and DEV21 of the Plymouth and South West Devon Joint Local Plan.

 

COMMITTEE DECISION: Refusal