Agenda item

Outline planning application to erect single dwelling house and paddock with details of access with all other matters relating to appearance, landscaping, layout and scale reserved.

Leyland  322A Willington Road  Kirton End  Boston  PE20 1NR

Mr and Mrs C Fountain

Outline planning application to erect single dwelling house and paddock with details of access, with all other matters relating to appearance, landscaping, layout and scale reserved        

Leyland, 322A Willington Road, Kirton End, Boston, PE20 1NR

Mr and Mrs C Fountain

The Senior Planning Officer presented the report and confirmed that a written submission with two letters had been submitted following issue of the agenda which had been circulated to all committee members ahead of the meeting.  Both letters were to be considered as material consideration in the determination of the application.

Representation was received in support of the application from Mrs Pitts which included:

Members were advised that Mrs Pitts had resided in the area very close to the application site for 38 years during which time she had witnessed the application site in commercial use which had been totally incompatible with the area.  The site had become very noisy and untidy commercial site with unsuitable large lorries which did cause great concern visiting the site on a very regular basis via a very poor access for such vehicles.  Local residents had to contend with bonfires; vermin; neglect and the whole site ended up being an eyesore.   Mrs Pitts confirmed that she had not known Mr and Mrs Fountain when they purchased the site and stressed that the reason for her attendance and representation was that they had made such a tremendous difference to the lives of both herself and other neighbours.  The site was now a green and attractive outlook and the transformation was amazing.  Many residents shared the opinion that the development of one house on the site would only benefit the area and the community with another young family instead or another unsuitable commercial activity in the middle of a residential area. 

Representation was received from the agent Mr Crust which included:

Having heard from the neighbours all supporting the application to improve their amenity, members were asked to agree that the site was not in open countryside and was a near mirror image of the previous application and appeal on the application B 17 0056.   The site was brownfield, previously developed land that still had permission for agricultural usage: it was however in totally the wrong place for such use.  The applicant was local and wanted to build one family home:  the applicant was not a speculative builder.   Mr Crust asked that members agree four points for granting the application.  The first being that the site was surrounded by residential development; secondly due to the shortfall in the Council’s housing allocation – thirdly in line with the appeal granted in the previous application and finally although not planning policy, it was natural justice.

It was moved by Councillor Paul Skinner and seconded by Councillor Tom Ashton that the application be granted contrary to officer recommendation as the application accords with paragraph 38 of the National Planning Policy Framework (2018) and due to the Council’s lack of 5-year housing land supply, the support for the development by local residents would support services in nearby villages.

VOTE:     In Favour:  10.     Against:  2.    Abstentions:  O

RESOLVED:  That the application be granted contrary to officer recommendation for the following reasons:

1.            No development shall commence until details of the layout, appearance, landscaping and scale of the development (hereafter referred to as the 'reserved matters') have been submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority.

Reason: This is an outline application only and such details must be approved before development commences in order to comply with the objectives of Boston Borough Local Plan 1999 policies G1 and H3 and required to be imposed pursuant to Section 51 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004.

2.            Application for approval of reserved matters shall be made to the Local Planning Authority not later than the expiration of three years from the date of this permission.

Reason: Required to be imposed pursuant to Section 51 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004.

3.            The development hereby permitted shall be begun before the expiration of two years from the date of approval of the last of the reserved matters

to be approved.

Reason: Required to be imposed pursuant to Section 51 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004.

4.           With regard to the access to the site only, the development shall be  

  carried out in accordance with the following approved plans;

§  Site location plan and existing block plan ref J1628-PL-01 rev 

    A01   (1/2)

§  Proposed site plan ref j1628-pl-02 rev A02

             Reason:  To ensure the development is undertaken in accordance with 

             the approved details and to accord with Adopted Local Plan Policy G1.

5      No development shall commence above slab level until a surface water strategy has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. No dwellings shall be occupied until the works have been carried out in accordance with the approved surface water strategy.

            Reason: In the interests of satisfactory drainage and to accord with the objectives of Boston Borough Local Plan 1999 Policy G3.

6.            The development shall be carried out in accordance with the submitted Flood Risk Assessment (FRA) dated June 2017 prepared by AF Architecture including the following mitigation measures detailed within the FRA:

§   Raised finished floor level at least 500mm above ground level

§   Demountable flood barriers to a height of 600mm above finished

           floor levels to be fitted on all external doorways

§   Flood resilient construction techniques shall be incorporated to a

           minimum height of 300mm above predicted flood depths

           The mitigation measures shall be implemented prior to occupation and subsequently maintained.

            Reason:    To reduce the risk of flooding to the proposed development

            and future occupants and to accord with the objectives of Boston 

            Borough Local Plan 1999 Policies G1 and H3 and the National Planning

            Policy Framework (2018)

7          No more than one dwelling shall be constructed on the application site.

           Reason:    To define this permission, in the interests of the amenity of           

           The area and to accord with the objectives of Boston Borough Local

           Plan 1999 Policy G1.

In determining this application the authority has taken account of the guidance in paragraph 38 of the National Planning Policy Framework (2018) and considers that due to the Council’s lack of 5-year housing land supply, the support for the development by local residents and whilst Kirton End is a smaller settlement, the additional dwelling will support services in nearby villages.

It is recorded that Councillor Tom Ashton absented from the committee at this point in the proceedings.