Issue - decisions

BOURN: Planning Applications

01/03/2021 - S/3440/18/OL - Bourn (Bourn Airfield)

By affirmation, the Committee agreed to the following:

 

(a)  Condition 8 being amended to state ‘up to’ 3,500 dwellings

(b)  Condition 11 being amended to include within the site-wide phasing plan a requirement for the delivery by the end of the second year of development of a tree-planting scheme along the eastern boundary of the site adjoining Highfields Caldecote

(c)  Condition 43 being bolstered with a timetable for delivery

(d)  Condition 58 being strengthened to sufficiently manage the housing mix

(e)  An additional Condition requiring the mitigation of odours to the south west of the site

 

By nine votes to two (with Councillors John Batchelor and Peter Fane voting against) the Committee agreed to Condition 13 being reformatted with Option (ii) being deleted

 

By six votes to five, the Planning Committee

 

1.    gave officers delegated powers to approve Outline application S/3440/18/OL, as amended, subject to:

 

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

 

                                               i.     the matters set out in the Heads of Terms attached as Appendix G to the report from the Joint Director of Planning and Economic Development, with officers being granted delegated authority to negotiate, secure, and complete such Legal Agreement on terms as are otherwise considered to be appropriate and necessary; and

 

                                              ii.     any other Heads of Terms, or details, including phasing and triggers, that are still under negotiation.

 

b.    The explanatory notes and terms, Planning Conditions (as a,emded) and Informatives set out in the report from the Joint Director of Planning and Economic Development, subject to the following Conditions re-worded by officers in consultation with the Chair of the Planning Committee and Vice-Chair of the Planning Committee meeting held on 19 February 2021.

 

Condition 11. Phasing

 

No development shall commence until a Site Wide Phasing Plan which accords with the s106 triggers and Transport Mitigation Strategy has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

 

It shall include the expected sequence of delivery of development within a Development Area, or sub area, or the provision of any other element or to any other applicable trigger point. No development shall Commence apart from Enabling Works or Associated Works or other works otherwise agreed in writing by the local planning authority until such time as the Development Area Phasing Plan has been approved in writing by the local planning authority. 

 

The development shall be carried out in accordance with the approved Phasing Plan unless there are unforeseen events / obstacles to delivery and alternative timing for provision is agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The Phasing Plan shall, by written agreement with the Local Planning Authority, be updated from time-to-time to reflect increased certainty of delivery of infrastructure.

 

The Site Wide Phasing Plan shall include but not be limited to the sequence of providing the following elements: 

 

a) A framework masterplan

b) Residential development parcels; 

c) Local bus services;

d) Major distributor roads/routes within the site, including timing of provision and opening of access points into the site; 

e) Strategic footpaths and cycleways; 

f) Community facilities including the secondary school, primary schools and sports hubs (including pavilion and junior changing rooms; 

g) Strategic foul and surface water features and SUDS; 

h) Formal and informal public open space, park/square, allotments, community orchard and parks, NEAPs, LEAPs and SIPs; 

i) Strategic electricity, telecommunications and gas networks; 

j) Infrastructure for the provision of fibre optic cables; 

k) Biodiversity net gain;

l) Environmental mitigation measures.

m) Early delivery of structural planting, along boundaries with Highfields Caldecote, within years 0-2 of the development

 

Reason: To clarify how the site is to be phased to assist with the determination of subsequent reserved matters applications and in order to ensure that infrastructure provision and environmental mitigation are provided in time to cater for the needs and impacts arising out of the development, in accordance with Policy SS/7 of the South Cambridgeshire Local Plan 2018.

 

                     Condition 13. Transport – 500 dwellings limit

 

                     No more than 500 dwellings shall be occupied unless:

 

(i)    The Strategic Transport Intervention has been delivered - with a Transport Assessment for the remaining phases demonstrating that the remaining development phases can be sustainably accommodated on the network. The Transport Assessment shall be to the satisfaction of the Local Planning Authority and meet Cambridgeshire County Council’s Transport Assessment requirements and will include the results of the ongoing site monitoring (as per a separate condition on Monitoring).

 

Reason: To ensure that the development is founded on the provision of significant improvements to public transport provision as listed in condition 6, in accordance with Policy SS/7 (8) (a) of the South Cambridgeshire Local Plan 2018.

 

                     Condition 43. – Foul water drainage strategy

 

Prior to the commencement of any development on any Development Parcel or Strategic Engineering and Landscape Element, apart from Enabling Works, a detailed site wide Foul Water Drainage Strategy shall be submitted to and agreed in writing by the local planning authority. The strategy should include the phasing of such works. 

 

The strategy shall include details of any necessary improvement to the existing sewerage system, including a timetable for their delivery, to ensure that sufficient capacity exists to cater for the needs of the development. The works/scheme shall be constructed and completed in accordance with the approved plans/specification and such programme as may be specified in the approved scheme.

 

Reason: A detailed scheme for on-site and off-site foul water drainage is required prior to the commencement of any Development Parcel to ensure the appropriate provision of infrastrastructure to serve the new village, to prevent the increased risk of flooding and/or pollution of the water environment, and to ensure no surface or ground water infiltration in accordance with Policies SS/7 (10) (b), CC/7 and TI/8 of the South Cambridgeshire Local Plan 2018.

 

Condition 70. – Odour (new Condition)

 

Before the strategic area of open space to the south of the site is brought into use a scheme for the assessment and mitigation of odour from the adjacent Bourn water recycling centre will be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The scheme shall include a timetable for the implementation of any mitigation.

 

Reason: In the interest of the amenity of users of the area of open space to the south of the site, in accordance with Policy SS/7 of the South Cambridgeshire Local Plan 2018.

 

2.    gave officers delegated powers to set 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.    Requested that officers present a summary / progress report on the Section 106 obligations to the Planning Committee in September 2021.


15/01/2021 - 20/02568/FUL - Bourn (Former Gestamp Factory, Bourn Airfield)

By seven votes to two, the Committee approved the application subject to the Conditions and Informatives set out in the report from the Joint Director of Planning and Economic Development.

 

(Councillors Henry Batchelor, Bradnam, Cahn, Fane, Hawkins, Heylings and Wilson voted to approve the application. Councillors Heather Williams and Richard voted for refusal. Councillor Deborah Roberts was not present. Councillor Nick Wright did not vote.)


11/12/2020 - 20/02568/FUL - Bourn (Former Gestamp Factory, Bourn Airfield)

Upon the proposal of Councillor Heather Williams, seconded by Councillor Nick Wright, and upon the Chair’s casting vote, the Committee resolved not to defer the application but, instead, to debate the issues and give officers delegated authority to determine  the application, in accordance with the Committee’s wishes, subject to no issues being raised during the additional consultation period ending on 29 December 2020. Should such issues be raised, the application would be referred back to Committee for reconsideration.

 

(Councillors Bradnam, Roberts, Heather Williams, Richard Williams and Wright voted to defer, Councillors John Batchelor, Cahn, Fane, Hawkins and Heylings voted to determine the application. Councillor Batchelor, as Chair, cast his vote in favour of determining the application at the current meeting.)

 

However, during the course of public speaking it became clear that Bourn Parish Council would be raising issues before the end of the public consultation period.

 

After taking advice from the Senior Planning Lawyer and Delivery Manager (Strategic Sites), the Chair proposed, seconded by Councillor Anna Bradnam, that the application be deferred. By affirmation, the Committee deferred the application until after the end of public consultation on 29 December 2020.


05/02/2016 - S/0499/15/FL - Bourn (Former runway, Bourn Airfield)

The Committee approved the application subject to

 

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

a.     An acceptable Operational Management Plan to include the establishment of a local community liaison Group

b.     A Transport Management Plan to include the routing of Heavy Goods Vehicles

 

2.     The Conditions referred to in the report from the Planning and New Communities Director.


18/01/2016 - S/2448/15/FL - Bourn (Rookery Farm, Broadway)

Members visited the site on 12 January 2016.

 

Annarita Demetriou (objector), Nick Ward (applicant), Councillor Les Rolfe (Bourn Parish Council) and Councillor Mervyn Loynes (a local Member) addressed the meeting. Objections related to nuisance, loss of residential amenity, health concerns, and hours of operation.

 

Members explored with officers options relating to the environmental health aspect of the application.

 

The Committee approved the application subject to the Conditions and Informatives referred to in the report from the Planning and New Communities Director.


04/11/2015 - S/1500/15/FL - Bourn (Gills Hill Farm, Gills Hill)

The Committee approved the application subject to the prior completion of a Legal Agreement under Section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 securing a footway / cycleway, onsite affordable housing,the provision and management of a Local Area for Play, the Conditions and Informatives referred to in the report from the Planning and New Communities Director and additional Conditions relating to surface water drainage and details of the attenuation basin.


07/11/2014 - S/1802/14/FL - Bourn (45 High Street)

The Committee gave officers delegated powers to approve the application, subject to prior completion of a Legal Agreement under Section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990  securing contributions towards community facilities, open space and waste receptacles, and to the Conditions referred to in the report from the Planning and New Communities Director.


08/11/2013 - S/1020/13/FL - Bourn (TK Tallent, Bourn Airfield)

The Committee approved the application subject to the Conditions set out in the report from the Planning and New Communities Director, Condition 27 comprising of the wording suggested by the applicant’s agents and revised by deleting the words “…any floor of any residential property adjacent to the site” and replacing them with the words “…on any part of any residential property.”


04/10/2013 - S/1020/13/FL - Bourn (Thyssen Krupp Tallent Ltd, The Airfield, Bourn)

The Committee deferred the application so that officers could draw uo a list of Conditions and submit it to the Planning Committee meeting on 6 November 2013 for approval.


11/01/2013 - S/2284/12/RM - Caxton, Caxton Gibbett

The Committee gave officers delegated powers to approve the application subject to the Conditions referred to in the report from the Planning and New Communities Director.


11/01/2013 - S/2288/12/VC - Bourn, 107 Caxton End

The Committee approved the application subject to the Conditions referred to in the report from the Planning and New Communities Director and subject to a further conditional requirement removing permitted development rights from the site in respect of Part 1 of the General Permitted Development Order (GPDO).


11/01/2013 - S/2315/12/FL - Upper Cambourne, Mosquito Road

The Committee gave officers delegated powers to approve the application subject to the conditions referred to in the report from the Planning and New Communities Director, with the additional proviso that approval only be granted subject to completion of a Section 106 Agreement/Unilateral Undertaking whereby no new application would be made such that the car parking arrangements would continue beyond 2 years from the grant of this permission and such that the Owner of the land undertakes to complete a transfer to Cambourne Parish Council of the open space area (having first reinstated it) forthwith following the expiry of the 2 year period.


09/11/2012 - S/1611/12/FL - Bourn (Land south of Cambourne)

The Committee approved the application subject to the Conditions referred to in the report from the Planning and New Communities Director, an additional Condition requiring removal of all solar panels, plant and machinery hereby permitted and reinstatement of the site upon cessation of its use as a solar energy farm, and appropriate Informatives.


07/09/2012 - S/1874/11 - Bourn (107 Caxton End)

The Committee approved the application subject to the Conditions set out in the report from the Planning and New Communities Director and an additional Condition requiring the applicant to submit to the satisfaction of the Local Planning Authority a scheme of energy conservation / renewable energy provision in accordance with Policy NE/1 of the South Cambridgeshire Local Development Framework 2007.


07/12/2011 - S/1272/11 - Bourn (126 Alms Hill)

The Committee approved the application in accordance with the recommendation in the report from the Corporate Manager (Planning and New Communities).


16/05/2011 - S/0567/11 - Bourn (Land adj Broadway)

The Committee refused the application contrary to the recommendation in the report from the Corporate Manager (Planning and New Communities).  Members agreed that the reasons for refusal of planning application S/2205/10 at the Planning Committee meeting on 2 March 2011, on the grounds of impact upon the surrounding countryside and impact upon the amenity of the occupiers of adjacent properties, had not been overcome by the current application.


04/03/2011 - 2205/10 - Bourn, Land to the East of Broadway, South of Grange Farm Park

The Committee refused the application, contrary to the recommendation in the report from the Corporate Manager (Planning and New Communities).  Members agreed the reason for refusal as being that, having visited the site, they considered that the proposal, due to its scale and appearance, would result in unacceptable harm to the visual quality of the surrounding countryside and, due to an overbearing impact, have an adverse impact on the amenities of occupiers of neighbouring dwellings.


05/11/2010 - S/1151/10/F - Bourn (Rockery Farm, Broadway)

The Committee approved the application as a Departure to Policy HG/5 of the South Cambridgeshire Local Development Framework 2007, as amended by plans CW.02A, CW.03A, CW.04A, CW.06A and CW.07A date stamped 7 September 2010, subject to the Conditions set out in the report from the Corporate Manager (Planning and New Communities) (Condition 10 being amended to begin  “No development shall begin until details of a scheme for the provision and future maintenance of the open space area…”) and to the Condition set out in the update report from the Corporate Manager (Planning and New Communities).


04/09/2009 - S/1004/09/F- Bourn (Rockery Farm House, Rockery Farm)

The Committee refused the application for the reasons set out in the report from the Corporate Manager (Planning and Sustainable Communities). 


04/09/2009 - S/0746/09/F - Bourn (Bourn Hall, High Street)

The Committee refused the application contrary to the recommendation in the report from the Corporate Manager (Planning and Sustainable Communities).  Reasons: Lack of justification for additional parking provision and no evidence those more sustainable solutions had been explored, such as a Green Travel Plan. 


04/09/2008 - S/0800/08/F – Bourn (The Duke of Wellington, 49 Alms Hill)

Approved, a revised car parking layout having been received, subject to the Conditions in the report and additional Conditions relating to boundary treatment, signage to the off-street parking area and re-orientation of the disabled drivers’ parking spaces. 


08/05/2008 - S/1201/07/F – Bourn (Site of Former Runway, Bourn Airfield)

Approved as report. 


06/12/2007 - S/1218/07/F – Bourn (Bourn Airfield)

Approved as report with a condition requiring a signing schedule, acceptable to the Local Highways Authority, on roads around the site during operation of the market. 


09/06/2006 - S/1569/02/F - Bourn

Refused for the reason set out in the report from the Director of Development Services, with an Informative to the applicant relating to the welfare of the local bat population.


16/05/2006 - S/1265/04/F - Bourn

Deferred, among other reasons, to consider the environmental health implications.


02/02/2006 - S/2358/05/F - Bourn

Approval as report


12/12/2005 - Bourn - S/2531/04/F

APPROVAL


12/12/2005 - Bourn - S/0416/05F, S/0417/05/O and S/0418/05/F

APPROVAL


08/12/2005 - S/2102/05/F - Bourn

Approval contrary to report. 


07/12/2005 - S/0470/04/F - Bourn

APPROVAL


09/09/2005 - S/1265/04/F - Bourn

Refused as report. 


07/02/2005 - S/1102/04/F - Bourn

Approval as report 


07/02/2005 - S/1569/02/F - Bourn

Deferred so that applicant can address the reasons for refusal set out in the report 


07/06/2004 - S/0470/04/F- Bourn

DEFERRED