Agenda item

To consider Planning Applications received (attached). An updated list will be issued on Thursday 14  April 2022 (if applicable).

A member of the public raised concerns regarding planning application CB/22/00607 Land Under Pylon Corridor on Site 17a Adj Aurora Rise and how this would impact on this residential area.  This area was the only open green area for families to use near their homes. No suitable alternative replacement open space has been offered up in mitigation. During construction and use thereafter, the proposal would result in an unacceptable level of noise and disturbance to the detriment of residents. The roads into this area were not adequate for the increase in potential traffic especially larger delivery vehicles with parking already at capacity on these roads. Reference was made to the potential legal transfer of the open space to the local authority or its nominee as part of the S106 Agreement for the site.

Members agreed unanimously that the application was totally inappropriate for this area and the Town Council would strongly object to Central Bedfordshire Council. 

The Committee reviewed applications received up until Friday 14 April 2022.

RESOLVED to recommend to Central Bedfordshire Council that objection be made to application reference CB/22/00607 Land Under Pylon Corridor on Site 17a Adj Aurora Rise on the following grounds:

i)             The proposal would result in the loss of valuable open space as designated within the Central Bedfordshire Local Plan. In accordance with Policy EE13 of the Central Bedfordshire Local Plan, the proposal fails to offer up replacement open space of a similar quantity and quality in a suitably accessible location within a similar catchment to the original facility thereby denying residents a sustainable and comparable facility in a suitable location.

ii)            The loss of established hedgerows and grassland would have a detrimental impact upon the biodiversity value of the open space for which any potential mitigation measures are unlikely to compensate for.  

a)    The proposal would have a significant impact upon the residential amenity of residents both during the construction phases and thereafter. The planning submission fails to provide an adequate noise assessment to demonstrate otherwise. Should the principal authority be minded to grant permission, that conditions are attached in order to safeguard residential amenity during the construction phases (limiting hours of operation) and the future hours of operation of any future commercial/business uses.

b)   The highways authority would need to be satisfied that the existing road network is capable of entertaining the significant increase in vehicular movements along an already congested road network not capable of meeting its own needs let alone a further development of the scale being proposed.

c)    Prior to adoption, the highways authority would need to be satisfied that the block finished road surfaces are capable of entertaining the level of development proposed.

d)   Attention is drawn to the Third and Fifth Schedule of the Section 106 Agreement for Site 17A and the legal obligation placed on the developer in respects of the transfer of open space and play areas to the Council or its nominee. Frustratingly, the Town Council has been chasing the transfer of the play areas for a least 2 years now but to no avail.

e)    Should the principal authority be minded to grant permission, the Town Council would seek assurance that necessary obligations by way of a S106 Agreement be secured to include contributions toward health, policing, education, leisure, affordable housing, open space and sustainable transport.

1.    RESOLVED to recommend to Central Bedfordshire Council that objection be made to application reference CB/21/01806 Land South of Hockliffe Road:

i)             The proposal would result in the loss of a valuable community asset thereby forcing those who rely on it to travel greater distances contrary to sustainability principles.

ii)             Whilst not designated in policy terms, the plan making authority should make reasonable endeavours to resist the loss of an employment generating use.

iii)           The proposal would result in the loss of established mature boundary trees to the detriment of the local environment.

Should the determining authority be minded to grant permission, the Town Council seeks assurance that the established businesses located nearby by virtue of their operation would not be compromised through the introduction of residential development to the site.

Should the principal authority be minded to grant permission, the Town Council would seek assurance that necessary obligations by way of a S106 Agreement be secured to include contributions toward health, policing, education, leisure, affordable housing, open space and sustainable transport. In particular commuted sums be secured for improvements to the Danes Way and Meadow Way Play areas as well as a meaningful contribution toward the Meadow Way Community Centre.

RESOLVED to recommend to Central Bedfordshire Council that objection be made to application reference CB/22/01133:

Despite the proposed amendments, it remains that the balcony is a substantial structure likely to result in overlooking and the loss of privacy for neighbouring properties. The proposed etched glass (over which the planning authority would have little future control) does nothing to address the overlooking issue and on this basis, the application should be refused.

RESOLVED to recommend to Central Bedfordshire Council that no objection be made to the following planning applications:

1.     CB/22/00803               VANDYKE UPPER SCHOOL

2.     CB/22/01126               4 MOWBRAY DRIVE, LINSLADE

3.     CB/22/00953               6 ST ANDREWS STREET

4.     CB/22/01148               22 ST MARTINS DRIVE, LINSLADE

5.     CB/22/01181               22 ASHBURNHAM CRESCENT, LINSLADE

6.     CB/22/00570               2 HARMONY ROW

7.     CB/22/01191               MULBERRY HOUSE 95a PLANTATION RD

8.     CB/22/01085               2 LEVEN CLOSE, LINSLADE

9.     CB/22/00992               20 SHENLEY HILL ROAD

10. CB/22/01225               LITTLE INCH, BOSSINGTON LANE 

11. CB/22/01241               SAXONS SLADE, 148 PLANTATION R

12. CB/22/00798               191 COTEFIELD DRIVE

13. CB/22/00263               20 HARCOURT CLOSE, LINSLADE

14. CB/22/01275               41 COTEFIELD DRIVE

15. CB/22/01250               36 BILLINGTON ROAD

16. CB/22/01307               18 DUDLEY STREET

17. CB/22/01180               LAND ADJACENT TO HEATHLEA, SANDY

                                                           LANE.

LB

1.    CB/22/01284/LB              27 HIGH STREET

TREES

1.     CB/TRE/22/00181                    20 TAYLORS RIDE

2.     CB/TCA/22/00187                    18 NEW ROAD, LINSLADE