Agenda item

Hybrid application for full planning permission for engineering works, drainage and utilities connection for the provision of site access from Forge Lane and Ravensthorpe Road and associated works; and for outline permission for erection of residential development and mixed use development (including community facilities) with associated works including the provision of internal estate roads and parking, landscape works (including provision of public open space, tree clearance/replacement/woodland management and ecological management) and sustainable urban drainage works drainage principles -Land to the south of Ravensthorpe Road / Lees Hall Road, Dewsbury.

Ward(s) affected: Dewsbury South

Contact : Victor Grayson, Planning Services

Approval delegated to Head of Planning and Development.

The Committee considered Application No. 2021/93689, a hybrid application for full planning permission for engineering works, drainage and utilities connection for the provision of site access from Forge Lane and Ravensthorpe Road and associated works; and for outline permission for erection of residential development and mixed use development (including community facilities) with associated works including the provision of internal estate roads and parking, landscape works (including provision of public open space, tree clearance/replacement/woodland management and ecological management) and sustainable urban drainage works drainage principles on land to the south of Ravensthorpe Road / Lees Hall Road, Dewsbury.

Under the provisions of Council Procedure Rule 36(3), the Committee received a representation from Councillor Jackie Ramsey.

Under the provisions of Council Procedure Rule 37, the Committee received representations from Mr Hussain, Mr Kadu and Mr Ismail (local residents and users of Lees Hall Community Centre) and representatives of Lees Hall Playgroup.

Resolved –

That approval of the application and issue of the decision notice be delegated to the Head of Planning and Development in order to complete the list of conditions, including those contained within the report, as set out below:

Outline conditions

1.       Standard outline condition (approval of reserved matters prior to commencement).

2.       Standard outline condition (implementation in accordance with approved reserved matters).

3.       Standard outline condition (reserved matters submission time limit – within three years of outline approval).

4.       Standard outline condition (reserved matters implementation time limit – within two years of reserved matters approval).

5.       Development in accordance with plans and specifications.

6.       Completion of a Section 106 prior to commencement, securing:

•    20% affordable housing, and details including tenure split, locations, designs, unit size mix and delivery.

•       Off-site open space contribution to address shortfalls in specific open space typologies (if necessary).

•       Education and childcare contributions (to be reviewed at reserved matters stage when number of units is confirmed and full unit size mix is known).

•       Formula-based contribution towards off-site highway works at the Forge Lane / Station Road / Thornhill Road junction.

•       Contribution towards junction improvements at Calder Road / Huddersfield Road junction (£80,000).

•       Contribution towards monitoring of parking on Lees Hall Road and funding to enable additional “no waiting” restrictions (if necessary).

•       Sustainable Travel Fund contribution (£179,025).

•       Public transport improvement contribution.

•       Travel Plan monitoring contribution (£15,000).

•       Biodiversity net gain contribution (if necessary).

•       Drainage management and maintenance arrangements, and establishment of a HS61-wide drainage working group.

•       Agreement to enable adjacent development, and to not create and/or exploit ransom scenarios.

•    Arrangements for the establishment of a management company for the management and maintenance of any land not within private curtilages or adopted by other parties, including open space.

7.       Travel Plan (including residential and non-residential components) to be submitted.

8.       Flood risk and drainage – full scheme to be submitted.

9.       Separate systems of foul and surface water drainage to be provided.

10.      Ecological mitigation and enhancement details (including an Ecological Design Strategy, and measures to address impacts on birds including ground-nesting farmland birds), revised biodiversity net gain assessment (including river assessment) and details of mitigation and delivery measures to be submitted.

11.      Air quality mitigation measures to be submitted.

12.      Further noise assessment and mitigation measures to be submitted.

13.      Contaminated land – phase II intrusive site investigation report to be submitted.

14.      Contaminated land – remediation strategy to be submitted.

15.      Contaminated land – remediation strategy to be implemented.

16.      Contaminated land – validation report to be submitted.

17.      Coal mining legacy – details of intrusive site investigation (and, where necessary, remediation) to be submitted, including assessment of safety risks (and, where necessary, remediation) relating to coal mining legacy in Lady Wood.

18.      Archaeological site investigation.

Full conditions

19.      Development to commence within three years.

20.      Development in accordance with plans and specifications.

21.      Construction (Environmental) Management Plan to be submitted.

22.      Temporary (construction phase) drainage measures to be submitted.

23.      Provision of site entrance and visibility splays prior to works commencing.

24.      Details of replacement community facilities to be approved prior to commencement. Forge Lane / Lees Hall Road junction to be completed and replacement community facilities to be provided prior to occupation of more than 150 dwellings.

25.      Details (including road safety audits and arrangements for implementation under Section 278) of Forge Lane / Lees Hall Road junction works to be submitted.

26.      Details (and arrangements for implementation under Section 278) of yellow box markings be provided at the Vicarage Road / Savile Road junction, and pedestrian refuge island on Ravensthorpe Road.

27.      Details (including road safety audits and approval under Section 38) of internal highways to be submitted.

28.      Details of design, implementation, maintenance and retention of works to public rights of way to be submitted.

29.      Arboricultural Impact Assessment and Method Statement to be submitted.

30.      Tree protection measures to be submitted.

31.      Restriction on timing of removal of hedgerows, trees and shrubs.

32.      Details of landscaping to be submitted.

33.      Ecological mitigation and enhancement details (including an Ecological Design Strategy, and measures to address impacts on birds including ground-nesting farmland birds), revised biodiversity net gain assessment (including river assessment) and details of mitigation and delivery measures to be submitted.

34.      Contaminated land – phase II intrusive site investigation report to be submitted.

35.      Contaminated land – remediation strategy to be submitted.

36.      Contaminated land – remediation strategy to be implemented.

37.      Contaminated land – validation report to be submitted.

38.      Coal mining legacy – details of intrusive site investigation (and, where necessary, remediation) to be submitted.

39.      Archaeological site investigation.

A recorded vote was taken, in accordance with Council Procedure Rule 42(5), as follows:

For: Councillors Armer, Davies, Hall, Pattison, Pinnock, Sokhal and Thompson (7 votes)

Against: (0 votes)