Agenda item

Report No: DEV/WS/22/034

Reserved matters application - Submission of details under outline planning permission DC/13/0408/OUT (Granted by the Secretary of State under reference APP/H3510/V/14/2222871) - details of the two vehicle site accesses (Phase 1) and internal spine road (Phase 2)

Reserved matters application - Submission of details under outline planning permission DC/13/0408/OUT (Granted by the Secretary of State under reference APP/H3510/V/14/2222871) - details of the two vehicle site accesses (Phase 1) and internal spine road (Phase 2)

The application was referred to the Development Control Committee following consideration by the Delegation Panel. The application was referred to the Panel due to the comments received from Newmarket Town Council. Subsequently, one of the local Ward Members (Newmarket North) Councillor Karen Soons, also requested that the application be referred to Committee.

As part of his presentation the Principal Planning Officer explained that outline planning permission had been granted for up to 400 dwellings at the site in March 2020.

The application before the Committee sought approval of matters reserved by condition 2 of the outline planning permission for some parts of the site. These being the areas around the previously approved vehicular accesses and a new road corridor through the site that would form a new distributor road serving the approved housing, the allocated employment site to the north and a proposed school and connection to the two approved accesses.

Members were advised that the employment land site and the primary school site were outside of the application site and did not have the benefit of planning permission to date.

For clarification, the Principal Planning Officer informed the Committee that the two points of vehicular access into the development site from the existing highway were included for submission as part of the outline application and therefore did not (and could not) fall to be considered at the secondary reserved matters stage.

Officers were recommending that the application be approved subject to conditions as set out in Paragraph 51 of Report No DEV/WS/22/34.

Speakers:    Councillor Karen Soons (Ward Member: Newmarket North) spoke against the application  

                   Richard Gee (applicant) spoke in support of the application

                   (Councillor Soons was not in attendance to personally address the Committee and, instead, the Democratic Services Officer read out a pre-prepared statement on her behalf.)

Councillor David Nettleton spoke in support of the application and suggested that the majority of the concerns raised could be mitigated by conditions. Accordingly, he proposed that the application be approved as per the Officer recommendation.

This was duly seconded by Councillor Roger Dicker who also spoke in support of the application and welcomed the progress of the scheme which would deliver much needed housing to Newmarket.

Upon being put to the vote and with 15 voting for the motion and with 1 abstention it was resolved that

Decision

Reserved Matters Consent be GRANTED subject to the following conditions:

1.   No development shall be commenced until an estate road phasing and completion plan has been submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority. The estate road phasing and completion plan shall set out the development phases and the standards of construction that the estate roads serving each phase of the housing development will be completed to and maintained at. Development shall only take place in accordance with the approved estate road phasing and completion plan.

2.   Before the development is commenced details (location/s, specification/s and timing of delivery) shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority showing the proposed bus stop provision. The approved scheme shall be carried out in its entirety and in accordance with the approved details in accordance with the approved timetable.

(Councillor Andy Drummond joined the meeting at 10.16am during the Officer’s presentation, accordingly he was advised by the Chair that he would be unable to take part in the voting on this item.)