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18/506656/FULL Popesfield, Bearsted Road

Meeting: 25/04/2019 - Planning Committee (Item 337)

337 18/506656/FULL - ERECTION OF A NEW TWO-STOREY PRIMARY SCHOOL AND SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS SECONDARY SCHOOL WITH VEHICULAR AND PEDESTRIAN ACCESS VIA KENT MEDICAL CAMPUS, TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED CAR PARKING AND DROP OFF AREA, PEDESTRIAN ACCESS, DRAINAGE, AREAS FOR FORMAL AND INFORMAL OUTDOOR PLAY AND LANDSCAPING WORKS - POPESFIELD, BEARSTED ROAD, WEAVERING, KENT pdf icon PDF 333 KB

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Minutes:

All Members stated that they had been lobbied.

 

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

 

In presenting his report, the Principal Planning Officer advised the Committee that:

 

·  The description of the application set out at the beginning of the Committee report should be amended as it was drafted when vehicular and pedestrian access was going to be from Bearsted Road.  The proposals had been amended in response to representations made on the application so that both vehicular and pedestrian access would be via the Kent Medical Campus.

 

·  Since the agenda was published, Kent County Council which dealt with surface water drainage had reviewed the information submitted and confirmed that further details were not required.  This meant that recommended condition 11 relating to surface water drainage should be deleted but a condition requiring its implementation and relating to the operation and management of the proposed sustainable drainage scheme should be added.

 

Mr Coward, an objector, Mrs Bowdery, on behalf of Boxley Parish Council, Councillor Hughes of Bearsted Parish Council, Mr Wallis, for the applicant, and Councillors Hinder and Mrs Hinder (Visiting Members) addressed the meeting.  Councillor Cuming also addressed the meeting as a Visiting Member in his own right and on behalf of Councillor Springett (Bearsted Ward Member) and de Wiggondene-Sheppard (Detling and Thurnham Ward Member) who were unable to attend the meeting.

 

RESOLVED:

 

1.  That subject to

 

  (a)  The prior completion of a legal agreement to provide for the Heads of Terms set out in the report; AND

 

  (b)  The conditions set out in the report, as amended by the Principal Planning Officer at the meeting, with:

 

·  The removal of original condition 19 (Off-site highway works) and the removal of part (c) of original condition 20 (Off-site upgrade works);

 

·  The amendment of the Biodiversity Enhancement and Landscape Management Plan to include a less intensive management regime for the woodland buffers and grassland areas in order to preserve wildlife and a semi-natural edge to this part of north Maidstone;

 

·  The addition of a condition removing permitted development rights and a condition stipulating that no temporary buildings shall be placed on the application site without the consent of the Local Planning Authority;

 

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 and conditions in line with the matters set out in the recommendation and as resolved by the Planning Committee.

 

2.  That the details to be submitted pursuant to original condition 21 (Car Park Management Plan) are to be agreed in consultation with the Boxley and Bearsted Ward Members, Boxley and Bearsted Parish Councils and the Chairman, Vice-Chairman and Political Group Spokespersons of the Planning Committee.

 

Voting:   7 – For  5 – Against  0 - Abstentions