Issue - meetings

Issue - meetings

Planning Application No.

Meeting: 31/01/2018 - DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE (Item 122)

122 Planning Application No. CB/17/02575/OUT (Houghton Conquest and Haynes) pdf icon PDF 1018 KB

 

Address:       Land east of Ampthill Road and north of Bedford Road surrounding Great Thickthorn Farm, Houghton Conquest (nearest postcode MK45 3NQ)

                       

Outline application (with all matters reserved except access): Mixed use development with access from Ampthill Road and Bedford Road comprising up to 650 dwellings, children's play spaces, a countryside park comprising formal and informal open space and playing pitches, new woodland and other landscape works together with a localised footpath diversion, a site of up to 2.00 hectares for educational use and other associated works and operations including but not limited to demolition, earthworks and engineering operations (including in relation to utilities and drainage).

 

Applicant:     Old Road Securities plc

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Minutes:

 

The Committee had before it a report regarding Planning Application No. CB/17/02575/OUT, an outline application (with all matters reserved except access) for a mixed use development with access from Ampthill Road and Bedford Road comprising up to 650 dwellings, children's play spaces, a countryside park comprising formal and informal open space and playing pitches, new woodland and other landscape works together with a localised footpath diversion, a site of up to 2.00 hectares for educational use and other associated works and operations including but not limited to demolition, earthworks and engineering operations (including in relation to utilities and drainage) on land east of Ampthill Road and north of Bedford Road surrounding Great Thickthorn Farm, Houghton Conquest.

 

In advance of consideration of the application the Committee’s attention was drawn to additional consultation/publicity response, additional comments and additional/amended conditions and amended/additional informatives as set out in the Late Sheet.  The planning officer also advised that:

 

·         the policy stated in the Late Sheet (under Additional Comments) should be HA1 reference HAS27.

·         The date for the submitted Parameter Plan mentioned in the Late Sheet (under Amended Conditions) should be May 2017.

·         The date of the footpath connections plan mentioned in the Late Sheet (under Condition 6) should be January 2018.

·         A late comment had been received from Bedford Borough Council regarding the secondary school contribution.  The planning officer stated that it was felt that this could be resolved by discussions with the Borough Council in relation to drafting the S106 agreement.

  

In advance of consideration of the application the Committee received representations from Houghton Conquest Parish Council, an objector to the application and the agent for the applicant under the public participation scheme.

 

On behalf of the ward Member, who had been unable to attend the meeting, the Chairman read out a statement setting out the ward Member’s concerns and suggestions regarding the application.

 

The planning officer responded to the points raised as follows:

 

·         The proposed country park was to be delivered early in the scheme.  It would be planted as soon as was possible and prior to occupation.  Details of the trees to be planted would come forward under the requirements set out in proposed Condition 15 and the officers could ensure there was a mix of saplings and semi-mature trees as part of the scheme.  The planning officer explained that the country park could not be delivered prior to commencement because of the ground work and significant underground infrastructure that needed to be installed first.

·         With regard to the request that the site entrance be from the B530 rather than Bedford Road the planning officer stated that the highways issues were covered by the proposed highways related conditions including a requirement that the junctions of the proposed vehicular access points had been be constructed and a Construction Traffic Management Plan, which covered the routing of such vehicles.

·         The area of land at the B530 Ampthill Road/Bedford road junction which would be left once the road was diverted into the site was dealt  ...  view the full minutes text for item 122