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Officer Comment

I wish to seek Members approval to a change to the Heads of Terms for the S106 agreement. The change has been discussed with the applicants and they are in agreement with the proposed change. 

I wish to vary the Heads of Terms to enable the received sum (£29,250) to be used for bus corridor improvements on the A229 Loose Road rather than as previously agreed solely towards the provision of a ‘bus lane between the ‘Wheatsheaf junction’ and the ‘Armstrong Road junction’ on the A229 Loose Road.

This is in accordance with policy T2 of the Maidstone Borough–wide Local Plan 2000, which seeks to secure a wider range of bus preference measures than just ‘bus lanes.

The contribution and its proposed use remains necessary to make the development acceptable in planning terms, directly related to the development and fairly and reasonably related in scale and kind to the development as required by Regulation 122 of the CIL Regulations 2010 and para 2054 of the NPPF 2012.

Recommendation

Subject to

A: The prior completion of a s106 agreement in such terms as the Head of Legal Services may advise to secure a contribution of £29,250 towards bus corridor improvements on the A229 Loose Road.

The Head of Planning be given Delegated Powers to GRANT PLANNING PERMISSION subject to the conditions previously agreed by Members at the meeting on 14 March 2013.