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MARFLEET 20/00566/FULL Land To The South, Preston Road, Kingston Upon Hull, , A hybrid planning application comprising:-, 1) Full planning application for residential development (242) dwellings, public and private access roads, public and private landscaping, recreational facilities and associated drainage works., 2) Outline planning application for residential development (all matters reserved except for access). c/o Strata Homes Ltd SUMMARY - Hybrid application for housing and associated development. - Objections received. Including holding objection from Highways England. - Recommended for conditional approval. Deferred to Head of Planning following withdrawal of Highways England objection. – Subject to a legal agreement to secure off-site tree planting - The Head of Planning has requested a Committee decision and site visit due to significance of the application. SITE The Site is located to the south of Preston Road, Archbishop Sentamu Academy and other facilities to the north off this double width roadway. Marfleet Lane running to Flinton Grove to the east. The southern boundary incorporates the properties to the south of St John’s Grove up to the junction of Hilton Grove and then follows an irregular line northward to Wansford Grove around properties to be retained. The western boundary is defined by Holderness Drain. The Site extends to approximately 16.08ha of brownfield (previously developed) scrubland. The site once formed part of wider residential development on the Preston Road Estate but has been cleared except for four properties, which are still occupied by their owners. It is understood that HCC is going through the Compulsory Purchase Order (“CPO”) process to acquire these last houses on the Site. Former and remaining properties were/are a non-traditional property types. There are a number of trees on the site. As groups of houses have been vacated, they have been demolished and clearance works undertaken, including capping off utility services such as gas, water and electricity. PROPOSAL 1 A hybrid planning application comprising:- 1) Full planning application for residential development (242) dwellings, public and private access roads, public and private landscaping, recreational facilities and associated drainage works. This is the eastern side of the site. The application consist of 11 house types, 4 types (167 units) for private sale, 5 types (50 units) for private rental sector, and 2 types (25 units) for affordable homes. The proposed space standards and car parking provision would be:- 2 Bed 3 person, 1 type – 74.9sqm – 9 units – 7/9=2 off-street car parking spaces (CPS), 2/9=1 CPS [Local plan parking guide = 2 CPS] 2 Bed 4person, 1 type - 61sqm – 17 units - 5/17= 2 CPS, 12/17= 1 CPS [Local plan parking guide = 2 CPS] 3 Bed 4 person, 3 types – 67sqm, 86.7sqm, 85.8sqm. – 31 units - 31/31= 2 CPS [Local plan parking guide = 2 CPS] 3 Bed 5 person, 2 types – 82.5sqm, 73.1sqm – 33 units - 33/33= 2 CPS [Local plan parking guide = 2 CPS] 3 Bed 6 person, 1 type – 110sqm – 80 units - 80/80= 2 CPS [Local plan parking guide = 2 CPS] 4 Bed 6 person, 1 type – 113.1sqm - 18 units – 18/18= 3 CPS [Local plan parking guide = 3 CPS] 4 Bed 7 person, 2 types – 126sqm, 102sqm - 54 units - 50/54= 3 CPS, 4/54= 2 CPS [Local plan parking guide = 3 CPS] The housing types would mainly be terraced but with a number of semi-detached units and also some large detached properties on corners. The density would be 33 dwellings per hectare. A proposed bus route is identified off Marfleet Lane and through the south of the site via Wansford Grove. There would also be 2 road junctions off Preston Road. One existing road access off Marfleet Lane is proposed to be closed. Almost all dwellings would have at least 2 off-street car parking spaces and a number would also have a garage space as well. A small number (14 mid terraced units) would only have 1 space. The outer boundaries would have existing verges retained with new verges also proposed. A number of trees, near the western Preston Road entrance point are shown for removal and there is an indicative (mainly perimeter) tree planting plan. 2 The proposed building materials would be in three palettes, Priory Weathered Red with red pantile roof, Priory Weathered Red with dark grey pantile roof, Hardwick Minster Cream brick with dark grey pantile roof. Revisions have secured string courses and deeper window reveals. 2) Outline planning application for residential development (all matters reserved except for access). This is the western side of the site bounding onto Holderness Drain. The indicative plan identifies a similar form of development to the eastern side with 249 units indicated. This area also includes 2 areas of open space, one including a children’s play area. The access is shown at 2 points off Preston Road (as existing) with 2 Preston Road accesses being shown as closed. The proposed bus route off Wansford Grove is shown continuing along the southern side of this route to join St John’s Grove. PLANNING HISTORY None relevant REPRESENTATIONS – Highways England Recommend that planning permission not be granted for a specified period Highways England recommends that planning permission not be granted until January 29 2021. Reason(s) for the recommendation above: To ensure that the A1033 Trunk Road at Marfleet Roundabout and Southcoates Roundabout continues to serve its purpose as part of a national system of routes for through traffic in accordance with Section 10(2) of the Highways Act 1980 by minimising disruption of the trunk road network and in the interests of road safety. Local Plan - Open Space Regarding the above application, this site is an allocated housing site and as such it will be liable to an on-site open space requirement, as per Table 12.5 in the Local Plan (On-site open space requirements for housing allocations). In that table, the requirement for this allocation is to provide 2.75ha of public open space, to include a park, children’s play equipment, and landscaping/buffering along Holderness Drain. Local Plan - Housing The application is accompanied by a Planning Report (April 2020) and Affordable Housing Statement/ Financial Viability Appraisal (April 2020) that propose and justify not meeting local plan requirements for affordable housing and space standards. Policy 5 Affordable Housing – The documents set out in detail why it is not viable to provide affordable housing on this site. The 10% policy would result in a requirement for 24 3 affordable units on this development. As an alternative, the developer proposes making provision for 25 affordable units to be provided through grant funding from Homes England. Policy 6 Housing Space Standards – The documents set out in detail why it is not viable to meet the minimum space standard in all the dwellings. Of the 242 total, 181 units (75%) do meet or exceed the standard – including all units proposed as affordable housing. The remaining 61 units (25%) would provide 10-20% less space than the national standard. The policy does recognise that in some areas of the city (including HMVZ2 where this development is located) it may not be viable to meet the standard; that the development can meet the standard in three-quarters of the dwellings could therefore be viewed as positive. Urban Design Original comments raised a significant number of design issues which were passed on to the applicant and a number of revisions and meetings were held to discuss these matters.- Latest comments:- Following the initial urban design appraisal and comments submitted 23/06/20 the developer and design team have engaged in a dialogue to address the concerns raised. Overall this has been a positive endeavour and has resulted in improvements to the overall urban design of the proposed development from that submitted. In particular concerns around legibility and the visual impact of parking have receded as a result of design revisions. Urban Design believes the design and detailing of some of the standard house types could still be better, but overall the proposal is appraised more positively and the original BfL12 assessment has been rescored and now achieves 9 greens. It is recommended that in order to safeguard the design improvements achieved all revised drawings are captured in any permission granted. • Developer/designer response to legibility, landmarks, corner plots etc. comments “The overuse of the Bologna house type meant that it was the focal point within every street scene, rather than being celebrated at key locations within the site. Previously, the site contained 26 No. Bologna. This has now been reduced to 18 No. Rather than plotting the Bologna on every corner, we have run semi-detached/terrace plots with gable windows up to corners. This accentuates the Bologna house type where it is now used in only prominent positions within the site”. As well as reducing the number of Bologna within the site, we have uplifted the external spec for the house type in six key locations within the heart of the Strata parcel. This option is stone built with a stone surround around the door, a stone string course and stone heads & cills”. Urban Design accepts this response has led to an improvement that is overall satisfactory. The revisions to plotting of house types and the introduction of a new type to the layout helps with the all-important legibility. The reconstituted stone built houses (six in total) are not in keeping with the local vernacular (brick) but do provide some much needed variety. Traditionally designed stone built houses tend to look out-of-context in Hull and the proposed stone built houses have more likely been designed with the West Yorkshire market in mind.