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15/507909 - Walderslade Woods Including, Land Off Wildfell Close, Boxley, Kent

Meeting: 24/05/2018 - Planning Committee (Item 22)

22 15/507909 - CHANGE OF USE OF WOODLAND AND GRASSLAND TO PROVIDE FOR FORMAL PUBLIC OPEN SPACE WITH ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY STRUCTURES (INCLUDING SEATING AND NATURAL PLAY EQUIPMENT), IMPROVEMENT TO PATHS AND LANDSCAPING; AND THE ERECTION OF 9 NO. DWELLINGS WITH GARAGING, LANDSCAPING AND ACCESS ON LAND WEST OF WILDFELL CLOSE - WALDERSLADE WOODS INCLUDING LAND OFF WILDFELL CLOSE, BOXLEY, KENT pdf icon PDF 518 KB

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Minutes:

All Members except Councillors Boughton and Kimmance stated that they had been lobbied.

 

The Committee considered the report and the urgent update report of the Head of Planning and Development.

 

The Major Projects Manager advised the Committee that an additional drawing in the form of a Landscape Master Plan had been received, and this needed to be listed in condition 2 (Approved Plans) and cross referenced in condition 8 (Landscaping).

 

Having disclosed an Other Significant Interest in this application, Councillor Harwood exercised his right to make representations, and then left the meeting (7.50 p.m.).

 

Councillor Davies of Boxley Parish Council and Mr Burrows of the Walderslade Woodlands Group addressed the meeting in support of the application.

 

RESOLVED:  That subject to:

 

(a)  The prior completion of a legal agreement in such terms as the Head of Legal Partnership may advise to provide for the Heads of Terms set out in the report amended to reflect Members’ expressed wish to:

 

·  Ensure the retention of the open space in perpetuity with an emphasis on the enhancement of its ecological and conservation value in the Landscape and Ecology Management Plan;

 

·  Include reference to (a) the minimum funding required to be generated from the development of the new dwellings and to be ring fenced for the future management and maintenance of the open space and (b) how that funding will be managed; AND

 

(b)  The conditions and informatives set out in the report, as amended by the urgent update report and by the Major Projects Manager at the meeting, and the additional conditions set out in the urgent update report with:

 

·  An additional condition requiring the incorporation within the residential development of a minimum of one operational electric vehicle charging point for low-emission plug-in vehicles; and

 

·  An additional informative advising the applicant that the proposed Hawthorn trees in the residential development should be replaced by Field Maples,

 

the Head of Planning and Development be given delegated powers to grant permission and to be able to settle, add or amend any necessary Heads of Terms in line with the matters set out in the recommendation, and as resolved by the Planning Committee, and to finalise the wording of the amended and additional conditions and the additional informative.

Voting:  12 – For  0 – Against  0 – Abstentions