Issue - meetings

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

Mr Greaves, for objectors, Councillor Selby of Headcorn Parish Council (against), Mr Page, for the applicant, and Councillor Round (Visiting Member) addressed the meeting.

RESOLVED:  That subject to the prior completion of a S106 legal agreement in such terms as the Head of Legal Partnership may advise to secure the following:

·  The provision of 40% affordable residential units within the application site;

·  A financial contribution of £1,180,952 towards the build costs of the first phase of expanding Headcorn Primary School from 1FE to 2FE;

·  The provision of land to allow the expansion of Headcorn Primary School with vehicular access;

·  A financial contribution of £519,156 towards the first phase of the expansion of Maidstone Grammar School;

·  A financial contribution of £1,857 towards youth services being equipment to expand the range of youth focused activities able to take place at Headcorn Village Hall, to be utilised by KCC’s commissioned youth worker;

·  A financial contribution of £10,563.48 towards libraries to address the demand from the development towards additional bookstock at Headcorn Library;

·  A financial contribution of £6,754 towards the cost of commissioning adult and community learning classes within Headcorn village, including rental of space and equipment required;

·  A financial contribution of £120,560 towards improvements, refurbishment and maintenance of existing and new equipment and facilities at the Hoggs Bridge Green Play Area and Playing Fields, Hoggs Bridge Green Allotments and Headcorn Recreation Ground and Play Area; and

·  The long-term management and maintenance of on-site natural and semi-natural open space areas including details of mechanisms by which the long-term implementation of the open space will be secured by the developer with the management body(ies) responsible for its delivery,

the Head of Planning and Development be given delegated powers to grant outline permission subject to the conditions and informative set out in the report, as amended by the urgent update report, and the amendment of conditions 4 and 9 as follows:

Condition 4 (amended)

The development shall not commence (including any demolition, ground works, site clearance) until there has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority a scheme of landscaping, using indigenous species which shall include indications of all existing trees and hedgerows on the land, and details of any to be retained, together with measures for their protection in the course of development and long term management. The landscape scheme shall be designed using the principles established in the Council's adopted Landscape Character Assessment and Landscape Guidelines and shall follow the principles of the landscape strategy plan (Drawing no. 1380/001RevE) and provide for the following:

a)  High quality detailed and structural landscaping within the site and on its boundaries to soften long and medium distance views of the development;

b)  The retention and enhancement of boundary vegetation (excluding the openings required for access points);

c)  The provision of a landscape belt adjacent to the existing hedge along the eastern boundary  ...  view the full minutes text for item 60