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Outline Application: all matters reserved except for access for the erection of up to 118 dwellings, together with associated works for access, open space, infrastructure, earthworks, surface water drainage systems and landscaping

Outline Application: all matters reserved except for access for the erection of up to 118 dwellings, together with associated works for access, open space, infrastructure, earthworks, surface water drainage systems and landscaping at Land Adjacent Ditton Common, North of Rede Wood Road, Oakapple Lane, Barming.

RESOLVED:  That outline planning permission be GRANTED in accordance with the submitted details, conditions, reasons and informatives set out in the report and supplementary report of the Director of Planning, Housing and Environmental Health, subject to the following:

(1)            The amendment of conditions 6, 11 & 16 (as originally numbered) as follows:

6. The details submitted in pursuance of Condition 1 shall show land shall identify allocated parking spaces for each residential dwelling, as well as any associated visitor parking spaces.  No dwelling shall be occupied until its associated allocated parking has been provided, surfaced and drained in accordance with the approved details.  Thereafter no permanent development, whether or not permitted by the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015 (or any order amending, revoking and re-enacting that Order) shall be carried out on the land so shown or in such a position as to preclude vehicular access to reserved vehicle parking area.

Reason:  Development without provision of adequate accommodation for the parking or garaging of vehicles is likely to lead to hazardous on-street parking.

11. (a) If during development work, significant deposits of made ground or indicators of potential contamination are discovered, the work shall cease until an investigation/ remediation strategy has been agreed with the Local Planning Authority and it shall thereafter be implemented by the developer.

(b) Any soils and other materials taken for disposal should be in accordance with the requirements of the Waste Management, Duty of Care Regulations. Any soil brought onsite should be clean and a soil chemical analysis shall be provided to the Local Planning Authority to verify imported soils are suitable for the proposed end use.

(c) A closure report shall be submitted by the developer to the Local Planning Authority relating to (a) and (b) above and other relevant issues and responses such as any pollution incident during the development, for its approval in writing.

Reason: In the interests of amenity and public safety.

16. None of the dwellings with on-plot parking shall be occupied until details of a scheme to install electric vehicle charging points to those plots within the development, has been submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority.  The work shall be carried out in strict accordance with those details prior to the occupation of any of these dwellings within the site.

Reason:  In order to encourage the occupation of the dwellings by people using electric vehicles to help reduce vehicle emissions in the interests of air quality and in accordance with paragraph 110 of the National Planning Policy Framework (2019).

(2)            The addition of the following conditions (note numbering reflects that in main report):

24. Prior to the commencement of development the applicant, or their agents or successors in title, will secure and implement:

(i) archaeological field evaluation works in accordance with a specification and written timetable which has been submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority; and

(ii) further archaeological investigation, recording and reporting, determined by the results of the evaluation, in accordance with a specification and timetable which has been submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority

Reason: To ensure that features of archaeological interest are properly examined and recorded.

25. The development shall be undertaken in accordance with the following plans:Proposed Plans  15-009-041 Rev A  dated 08.09.2020, Drawing  P19-1591_19C dated 08.09.2020, Drawing  P19-1591_29C  dated 08.09.2020, Location Plan  P19-1591_24  dated 12.06.2020.

Reason: To ensure the development is undertaken in conformity with the approved drawings.

(3)      the omission of conditions 7 and 13;

(4)      the renumbering of conditions as necessary to account for the above amendments; and

(5)      the addition of Informatives 5 and 6 as follows:

5. The applicant’s attention is drawn to the following advice from Kent County Council (PROW and Access Service)

·       No furniture, fence, barrier or other structure may be erected on or across Public Rights of Way without the express consent of the Highway Authority.

·       There must be no disturbance of the surface of the Public Rights of Way, or obstruction of its use, either during or following any approved development without the express consent of the Highway Authority.

·       No hedging or shrubs should be planted within 1 metre of the edge of the Public Rights of Way.

• The granting of this planning permission confers no consent or right to close or divert any Public Rights of Way at any time without the express permission of the Highway Authority

No Traffic Regulation Orders will be granted by KCC for works that will permanently obstruct the route unless a diversion order has been made and confirmed. If the applicant needs to apply for a temporary traffic regulation order whilst works are undertaken, this would take six weeks to process.

6. The applicant is strongly encouraged to advise prospective occupants of the approved dwellings of the nearby quarrying activities and the potential for noise and vibration to be experienced as a result of these activities. 

[Speakers: Verbal statements were made by Mr K Jones on behalf of ‘Give Peas a Chance’ and Mr T Walker (members of the public) and Ms L Wilford (Agent to the Applicant)]

In accordance with Committee Procedure Rule 8.6, Part 4 (Rules) of the Constitution, Councillor R Dalton requested that it be recorded that he had voted against approval of the planning application.