Agenda item

Redevelopment to form 32 Retirement Living apartments for older persons including communal facilities, and associated car parking and landscaping, and the repositioning of 4 existing car parking spaces at Land rear of 182 High Street, Tonbridge

Redevelopment to form 32 Retirement Living apartments for older persons including communal facilities, and associated car parking and landscaping, and the repositioning of 4 existing car parking spaces at Land rear of 182 High Street, Tonbridge.

RESOLVED:  That planning permission be GRANTED subject to:-

(1)               The s106 financial contributions being split as follows:

TMBC
- £21,780 to be spent on improvements to Haysden Country Park or the Memorial Garden
- £39,960  to be spent on improvements to Tonbridge Racecourse Sports Ground
- £251,323.42 towards Affordable housing provision within the Borough

KCC
- £239.36 for Improvements to Tonbridge Adult Education Centre
- £1,885.30 for improvements to Tonbridge Library
- £4,993.92 for improvements  towards the Priority areas of: Assistive Technology, Adapting Community facilities, Sensory facilities and Changing Places within the Borough.

(2)               The amendment of the first paragraph of condition 4 to read:

4.  The development hereby approved shall be carried out in such a manner as to avoid damage to the existing trees that are to remain on site as part of the development, including their root system, or other planting by observing the following:

(3)               The addition of the following conditions:

21.  This permission shall be an alternative to the following permission and shall not be exercised in addition thereto, or in combination therewith.  (Permission granted on 06.06.2014 and under reference TM/14/01354/FL.

Reason:  The exercise of more than one permission would result in an over intensive use of the land.

22. The use shall not be commenced, nor the premises occupied, until the area shown on drawing no 20078TB_PL203 as mobility scooter parking space has been provided.  Thereafter it shall be kept available for such use and no permanent development, whether or not permitted by the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015 (or any order amending, revoking or re-enacting that Order) shall be carried out on the land so shown or in such a position as to preclude access to this reserved mobility scooter parking space.

Reason:  To ensure there is dedicated provision for the parking of mobility scooters to serve the residents of the development.

(4)               The addition of Informative

2.  With regard to condition 6 of this permission, construction worker’s/contractor’s vehicles will be expected to park within the public car parks for the duration of the approved construction works and not on the local roads adjacent to the site where parking controls exist.

[Speakers: Mr M Shellum (Agent)]