Decision details

S/2075/18/OL - Waterbeach (Land adjacent to Waterbeach Barracks and Airfield Site)

Decision Maker: Development and Conservation Control Committee (see also Planning Committee), Planning Committee

Decision status: Recommendations approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Purpose:

All planning applications for Waterbeach considered by the Planning Committee since May 2003. For individual reports, please click on the ‘Meetings’ tab above. For further details on all Waterbeach planning applications, please visit our Planning Applications Database and select Waterbeach from the drop-down list of parishes

Decision:

The Planning Committee gave officers delegated authority to approve the application subject to

 

1.    The prior completion of a Legal Agreement under Section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 on the terms broadly referenced in Section 9 of the main report from the Joint Director of Planning and Economic Development, with delegated authority granted to the Joint Director of Planning and Economic Development to negotiate, secure, and complete such agreement on terms as are otherwise considered to be appropriate and necessary, including the Heads of Terms (HoTs) as set out in the report, and any other HOTs or the detail, such as phasing and triggers, that are still under negotiation. The final wording of any significant amendments to HoTs listed in the report will be agreed by officers in consultation with the Chair and Vice-Chair of Planning Committee prior to the issuing of planning permission;

 

2.    setting out, as part of the decision notice and in accordance with the Town and Country Planning (EIA) Regulations 2017 reg. 29 ‘information to accompany decisions’ a reasoned conclusion of the significant effects of the development on the environment and to carry out appropriate notification under reg. 30 accordingly;

 

3.    The presentation to Planning Committee in July or August 2021 of a report outlining progress with the Section 106 obligations; and

 

4.    The Conditions and Informatives set out in the report from the Joint Director of Planning and Economic Development amended as follows

 

(a)  Condition 15 now to state

 

No dwellings shall be occupied until the approved railway station (planning ref. S/0791/18/FL or as may be varied) has been completed and is open for use and the link road connecting the site to the southern junction with the A10 as shown on parameter plan 1330 GA 010002 Rev 17 in the adjacent U&C development site (planning ref. S/0559/17/OL) has also been completed and is open for use.

 

Reason: For the avoidance of doubt, to provide quality placemaking, and to ensure the delivery of strategic transport interventions before the occupation of any dwellings, and to ensure that the site is accessed in an appropriate and comprehensive manner, in accordance with Policy SS/6 of the South Cambridgeshire Local Plan 2018 and the Waterbeach New Town SPD.

 

(b)  Condition 42 now to state

 

No reserved matters applications shall be submitted, and no development shall commence until such time as a scheme to manage the residual risks of flooding from a River Cam flood embankment breach (scenarios to cover risks both within and outside of the site, to and from the development) has been submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority. The scheme shall be fully implemented and subsequently maintained, in accordance with the scheme’s timing/ phasing arrangements, or within any other period as may subsequently be agreed, in writing, by the local planning authority.

 

Reason: To manage flooding and to ensure that flood risk is not increased elsewhere by ensuring the satisfactory storage or conveyance of flood water diverted by the site during a breach of the River Cam Defences, in accordance with the National Planning Policy Framework and Policies SS/6, CC/8 and CC/9 of the South Cambridgeshire Local Plan 2018.

 

(c)  Condition 57 now to state

 

No development shall commence until a Site Wide Construction and Environmental Management Strategy (CEMS) has be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The document shall include details of:

 

…b) Indication of the locations of access routes and associated works to enable the carrying out of development including temporary haul routes, highway signage strategy and approach to monitoring and enforcement. These routes must exclude any existing residential roads.

 

Publication date: 05/02/2021

Date of decision: 29/01/2021

Decided at meeting: 29/01/2021 - Planning Committee

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