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SURREY HEATH BOROUGH COUNCIL PLANNING APPLICATIONS COMMITTEE Report of the Head of Planning, Development and Homes to be considered at the meeting held on 13 December 2010 APPLICATIONS FOR PLANNING PERMISSION & RELATED APPLICATIONS FOR CONSIDERATION BY THE PLANNING APPLICATIONS COMMITTEE NOTES Officers Report Officers have prepared a report for each planning or related application on the Planning Committee Index which details:- Site Description Relevant Planning History The Proposal Consultation Responses/Representations Planning Considerations Conclusion Each report also includes a recommendation to either approve or refuse the application. Recommended reason(s) for refusal or condition(s) of approval and reason(s) including informatives are set out in full in the report. How the Committee makes a decision: The Planning Applications Committee’s decision on an application can be based only on planning issues. These include: Legislation, including national planning policy guidance and statements. Policies in the adopted Surrey Heath Local Plan and emerging Local Development Framework, including Supplementary Planning Documents. Sustainability issues. Layout and design issues, including the effect on the street or area (but not loss of private views). Impacts on countryside openness. Effect on residential amenities, through loss of light, overlooking or noise disturbance. Road safety and traffic issues. Impacts on historic buildings. Public opinion, where it raises relevant planning issues. The Committee cannot base decisions on: Matters controlled through other legislation, such as Building Regulations e.g. structural stability, fire precautions. Loss of property value. Loss of views across adjoining land. Disturbance from construction work. Competition e.g. from a similar retailer or business. Moral issues. Need for development or perceived lack of a need (unless specified in the report). Private issues between neighbours i.e. boundary disputes, private rights of way. The issue of covenants has no role in the decision to be made on planning applications. Reports will often refer to specific use classes. The Town & Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1995 (as amended) is summarised for information below: A1. Shops Shops, retail warehouses, hairdressers, undertakers, travel and ticket agencies, post offices, pet shops, sandwich bars, showrooms, domestic hire shops and funeral directors. A2. Financial & professional Banks, building societies, estate and Services employment agencies, professional and financial services and betting offices. A3. Restaurants and Cafes For the sale of food and drink for consumption on the premises – restaurants, snack bars and cafes. A4. Drinking Establishments Public houses, wine bars or other drinking establishments (but not nightclubs). A5. Hot Food Takeaways For the sale of hot food consumption off the premises. B1. Business Offices, research and development, light industry appropriate to a residential area. B2. General Industrial Use for the carrying on of an industrial process other than one falling within class B1 above. B8. Storage or Distribution Use for the storage or as a distribution centre including open air storage. C1. Hotels Hotels, board and guest houses where, in each case no significant element of care is provided. C2. Residential Institutions Residential care homes, hospitals, nursing homes, boarding schools, residential colleges and training centres. C2A. Secure Residential Use for a provision of secure residential Institutions accommodation, including use as a prison, young offenders institution, detention centre, secure training centre, custody centre, short term holding centre, secure hospital, secure local authority accommodation or use as a military barracks. C3. Dwelling houses Family houses or houses occupied by up to six residents living together as a single household, including a household where care is provided for residents. D1. Non-residential Clinics, health centres, crèches, day nurseries, Institutions day centres, school, art galleries, museums, libraries, halls, places of worship, church halls, law courts. Non-residential education and training areas. D2. Assembly & Leisure Cinemas, music and concert halls, bingo and dance halls (but not nightclubs), swimming baths, skating rinks, gymnasiums or sports arenas (except for motor sports, or where firearms are used). Sui Generis Theatres, houses in multiple paying occupation, hostels providing no significant element of care, scrap yards, garden centres, petrol filling stations and shops selling and/or displaying motor vehicles, retail warehouse clubs, nightclubs, laundrettes, dry cleaners, taxi businesses, amusement centres and casinos. PLANNING APPLICATIONS COMMITTEE INDEX WARD LOCATION APPLICATION NO ITEM PAGE NO NO CHO FORMER DERA SITE CHOBHAM LANE, 2005/0548 01 1 LONGCROSS, CHERTSEY, KT16 0EE PAR LAND TO THE REAR OF AUTUMN LODGE & 2010/0375 02 20 MARAVAL, SPRINGFIELD ROAD, CAMBERLEY, GU15 1AB BAG PINEWOOD, 93 COLLEGE RIDE, BAGSHOT, GU19 2010/0606 03 27 5EP BAG NOTCUTTS GARDEN CENTRE, 150-152 LONDON 2010/0629 04 40 ROAD, BAGSHOT, GU19 5DG CHO WENTWORTH PLACE, CHESTNUT LANE, 2010/0684 05 46 CHOBHAM, WOKING, GU24 8TN STM 11 FRIMLEY ROAD, CAMBERLEY, GU15 3EN 2010/0852 06 52 01 2005/0548 Reg Date 24/05/2005 Chobham LOCATION: FORMER DERA SITE CHOBHAM LANE, LONGCROSS, CHERTSEY, KT16 0EE PROPOSAL: Outline application for development comprising up to 113,434 sq.m of built floorspace (in total) including: business premises (Class B1 use); with supporting retail and cafe/restaurant facilities (Class A1 and A3 use), childcare facilities (Class D1 use), leisure facilities (Class D2 use) and decked vehicle parking. Development also to include demolition of buildings, removal of hardstanding; creation of ecological habitat areas; creation of general amenity areas; creation of landscaped areas; new and improved site access for vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists; new and improved links between the site and existing public highways network; vehicle parking (up to 3,079 spaces); cycle parking; drainage works including a pumping station for foul drainage and storage ponds for surface water drainage; bin stores; electricity substation; and associated engineering operations. All such development shall accord with the application plans and development parameters contained herein. TYPE: Outline APPLICANT: CGNU Ltd & Crest Nicholson Devis Ltd OFFICER: Michelle Fielder 1.0 SUMMARY 1.1 This application relates to the comprehensive redevelopment of the DERA site for business and ancillary uses. The site is 43ha of which only 8ha lies within this authority and the remainder within the administrative boundary of Runnymede Borough. 1.2 The parcel that falls within Surrey Heath is to be set out as an ecological buffer. No new built form is proposed within this area. This application has been submitted to the Planning Applications Committee on four previous occasions. A resolution to grant planning permission subject to conditions and the completion of a s106 agreement was agreed at the committee meetings of 30 June 2008 and 5 May 2009. 1.3 The agreement has not been completed and therefore planning permission has not been issued. The purpose of this report is three fold, firstly to seek an extension of time to allow for the completion of the s106 agreement. Secondly, to explain why it has not proved possible to reach agreement on the detail of the s106 as it relates to the traffic calming and mitigation measures sought under the terms of the original resolution. Consequently this report also serves to advise Members of the revised ‘package’ of traffic calming and mitigation measures now being put forward by the applicant. Thirdly, to set out a schedule of revised draft planning conditions. 1.4 It should however be noted that the detail of the application remains as before. The only material difference between the details of the application as considered acceptable by the Planning Applications Committee on 30 June 2008 and 5 May 2009 is the terms of the mitigation measures to be secured by the s106 and the revised draft planning conditions. With this in mind, the matters to be considered by this report are limited to whether: 1. It is appropriate to extend the time period for the completion of the s106 agreement; 1 2. the mitigation package offered by the applicant is considered sufficient to mitigate the proposals impact on the highway network of the Borough; and, 3. Whether the revised draft planning conditions proposed, in combination with point 2 above, will mitigate the impact of the application on the Borough. 1.5 This report concludes that the application and mitigation proposed is acceptable. 2.0 RECOMMENDATION Recommendation 1. Defer and Delegate and subject to receipt of a satisfactory legal agreement (at no cost to the Council) to secure: 1. The submission of an ecological buffer management plan on that part of the site known as the Ecological Buffer Zone. The implementation of the Ecological Management Plan prior to the occupation of any B1 Offices on the wider site. For the avoidance of doubt the Ecological Management Plan will ensure provision for the future upkeep and maintenance of the Ecological Buffer Zone which may be through the appointment of an ecological Management Agent approved by Surrey Heath Borough Council. The retention of existing buildings 63, 109 and 110 within the Ecological Buffer Zone to a standard suitable for Black Redstart birds to inhabit for such time as they inhabit the Site