Decision details

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

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

1.    completion of a Legal Agreement under Section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990

a.    securing contributions towards public open space, community facilities, waste receptacles, monitoring and legal fees and provision of the houses as affordable dwellings

b.    including a provision for priority to be given to those with a direct link to Swavesey but that if such persons are not available to take a vacant unit within 8 to 10 weeks of a relevant dwelling becoming available (as opposed to four weeks as proposed by the applicant) then there should be a cascade approach such that priority is then given to those with a direct link within an agreed radius of the village

c.    including a Mortgagee in Possession clause requiring the dwellings to be affordable in perpetuity if officers determined financial appraisal of the scheme meant delivery could not be achieved without this

2.    the Conditions set out in paragraphs 54 to 65 in the  report from the Planning and New Communities Director, the words “adopted sewage system”  in paragraph 59 being replaced by the words “adopted piped services” (or similar); and

3.    the application being advertised as a Departure from the adopted Development Plan and not being called in for determination by the Secretary of State.