7. 13/00034/FULLN (PERMISSION) 08.01.2013 11 - 69 SITE: Land at Former Andover Airfield, Monxton Road, Andover, PENTON MEWSEY / ANDOVER TOWN (MILLWAY) / MONXTON
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7. 13/00034/FULLN (PERMISSION) 08.01.2013 11 - 69 SITE: Land At Former Andover Airfield, Monxton Road, Andover, PENTON MEWSEY / ANDOVER TOWN (MILLWAY) / MONXTON CASE OFFICER: Jason Owen 8. 13/00303/FULLN (PERMISSION) 13.02.2013 70 - 92 SITE: Finkley Manor Farm, Finkley Road, Finkley, SMANNELL CASE OFFICER: Gregg Chapman 9. 12/02765/FULLN (PERMISSION) 21.12.2012 93 - 117 SITE: Land To The Rear Of Roxtons (formerly Viva), High Street, Stockbridge, STOCKBRIDGE CASE OFFICER: Lucy Page 11. 13/00716/FULLN (PERMISSION) 04.04.2013 137 - 156 SITE: Land Off Trafalgar Way, Stockbridge, Hampshire, STOCKBRIDGE CASE OFFICER: Sarah Appleton ___________________________________________________________________ __ APPLICATION NO. 13/00034/FULLN SITE Land At Former Andover Airfield, Monxton Road, Andover, PENTON MEWSEY / ANDOVER TOWN (MILLWAY) / MONXTON th COMMITTEE DATE 30 May 2013 ITEM NO. 7 PAGE NO. 11 - 69 ___________________________________________________________________ __ 1.0 CLARIFICATION/CORRECTIONS 1.1 Para 4.6 – Reference number “09/02729/OUTN” omitted in error. 1.2 Para 5.5 – reference to “Appendix B” relates to comments provided by the HCC Highways (Para 5.4) and not TVBC Highway Engineers. 1.3 The legal agreement referred to in the Recommendation would simply bind the current proposed development to the provisions contained in the legal agreement for the 09/02392/OUTN permission for the Business Park. The provisions include: Landscaping; Community Land; Public art; Sustainable development; Noise mitigation and off-site noise fencing; Training and Development contribution and Construction Apprenticeship scheme; Training and Development contribution and Construction Apprenticeship scheme; Highways (Highway contributions and Highway works); and Transportation, Travel and Access Measures (these include a Site Travel Plan / HCV Traffic Demand management / on-site access for HCV‟s, the Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) system; Barred routes - access restrictions to Monxton Road; barred route contribution; A338 restriction limit). 1.4 Recommended condition 18 has a sentence missing „The scheme shall also include a management scheme for restricting reversing alarm noise disturbance at other times‟. This has now been included in the amended recommendation. 2.0 AMENDMENTS 2.1 Amended plans: 24.05.13 (clarification on erection of 7.5m fence to eastern boundary on proposed site layout plan) 2.2 Amended landscape plan: 24.05.13 (replacement of Ash with Hornbeam) 3.0 VIEWING PANEL 3.1 A Viewing Panel was undertaken on the morning of the 29th May 2013. Members in attendance: Cllrs Brooks, Boulton, Flood, Giddings, Hawke and Lovell. 4.0 CONSULTATIONS/REPRESENTATIONS 4.1 Highways Agency: No objections 1 4.2 x33 letters: Object (22 and 27 Sunnybank, Monxton Mill, Dingley Dell, Brewery House, Corner Cottage, Willow Glen, Rectory Cottage, Meadow Lodge, Little Thatch, The Willows, The Chesters, Saddlers Cottage, Glebe Cottage, Spinney Hill, Glebe Cottage, The Old Farmhouse, Meadow View, Old Hoyles, Springfield, Fourways Cottage, Monks Foyle Cottage, School House, The Owls, Kingsbrook, Monxton; The Old Farm, Little Bec, The Cottage on the Green, The New Beeches, Amport; Norfolk House, Abbotts Ann; Bracondale, Penton Harroway; 18 Conholt Road and 6b Shaw Close Andover) Traffic and highway matters More traffic congestion and vehicles taking the „wrong‟ route. Heavy vehicle movements originally imposed are still regularly flouted resulting in truck movements through Monxton. Should this development proceed it is essential that the same restrictions are applied and enforced. Already too many of the lorries from the existing development are coming through our village(Monxton) when they are not supposed to. The road is too narrow and the roadside and hedging is being destroyed as well as proving desperately dangerous for young children as there is no kerb. Many houses have front doors straight onto the street. The streets, greens, trees and properties have been damaged by HGV‟s travelling through the village, both frequently and at speed. There is a danger to pedestrians and other road users. The proposal will increase these problems. Andover has a number of business parks which have been created with infrastructure to support large vehicles and increased traffic levels. These industrial sites, which no doubt have numerous empty units, are much more suited to this kind of development. HGV‟s using Monxton Road as a shortcut has had a major impact on the Monxton Conservation Area and the village in general, aggravated by the „improvements‟ at Red Post Bridge which removed the weight limit. What guarantee is there that further traffic calming measures on the Monxton Road will happen? Routes into and out of the area along the A303, A34, A342, and the A343 are already overloaded to almost breaking point and additional HGV,s would bring the road grid to a halt. There is „rat running‟ and speeding through surrounding villages to avoid the log jams. With a projected increase of employees working in three shifts would only make the situation considerably worse. There will be an extremely dangerous mixing of local traffic (e.g. mothers taking and collecting children from school) and possibly up to 3000 traffic movements of very large HGV‟s. There will be further unacceptable impact on many beautiful Hampshire villages with listed buildings that have no firm foundations and many of which reside in conservation areas. Impact on Monxton Road, local roads and A303 Increases traffic accident risk on A303 and adjoining roundabouts. Design of new roundabout difficult to follow and dangerous, causing 2 near-misses. There are collisions nearly every day. Lanes are far too narrow to safely accommodate 3 or 4 lorries abreast. Traffic generation parking and safety. Amenity concerns The night-time lighting levels are unacceptable. The night-time noise levels for houses at Red Post Lane are unacceptable. The existing permission has a layout in which Unit 5 provides some shielding against operational noise and light. The new layout dispenses with this shielding by allowing site traffic and operations around the SW outside corner of the proposed buildings. Unit 5 had loading bays facing away from Red Post Lane properties so as to minimise noise from manoeuvring vehicles. Even with acoustic fencing there will be an unacceptable increase in noise for residents. Opening the possibility of refridgerated storage will cause further noise nuisance. In an effort to present the noise predictions in a favourable light, Chapter 10 on Noise quotes PPG24 which is old (1994) and no longer relevant. The world has moved on considerably since 1994 and also since 2008, when the Tesco predictions referred to in Chapter 10 were made, notably in the publication in a new set of WHO guidelines for night-time noise (WHO 2009) which recommend a limit of L-night,outside of 40dB, which is 5dB lower than the WHO 2000 recommendations which themselves were lower than the WHO levels that preceded them. There is a clear trend towards decreasing the acceptable limits as the physical and psychological effects of night-time noise become better understood. WHO 2009 says (p19): adverse health effects are observed at the level above 40 dB of Lnight,outside, such as self-reported sleep disturbance, environmental insomnia, and increased use of somnifacient drugs and sedatives. The WHO 2009 report also gives a comprehensive summary of the new (since 2000) evidence about the effects of night noise. Having given the WHO 2009 report a passing reference, Chapter 10 then ignores it and continues to quote the higher WHO 2000 recommended limits in paras. 10.67 & 10.79 et seq and in Table 10.14, when use of the WHO 2009 limits would place the comparisons in a less favourable light, especially if the development noise had been properly assessed. Section 10.72 says that no penalty for acoustic character has been applied to the predicted noise levels, but surely it should have been when one component of the noise is from reversing bleepers. The list of operational noise sources (Table 10.9) does not include either reversing bleepers or the rattling of cages put in/out of the lorries. Although there may have been an assumption that the lorries are using broad-spectrum reversing warnings, this assumption is not necessarily valid, especially with suppliers‟ lorries. 3 The experience of residents in Red Post Lane is that reversing bleepers are audible at night from the existing Coop development which is much further away than the proposed Unit 5. This chapter does not include any measurements of the noise levels at the receptor sites since the Coop distribution centre became fully operational. Instead, it is assumed that the calculations made in 2008 on the effects of this development are entirely valid and give a measure of the extant ambient noise situation when they do not. Surely it would have been prudent to have checked that the calculations made in 2008 were valid, especially as the same methodology is being used to assess the impact of the latest proposal, and to check that the acoustic fencing installed since 2008 has produced the forecast attenuation? Table 10.5 quotes figures for post-development noise experienced at 19 Monxton Road (receptor 5) and references the calculations in the extant permission. However, as previously pointed out to TVBC, these calculations were erroneous as they did not consider the significant noise from lorries from the business park travelling around the revised 100-Acre roundabout and then onto the slip road in order to access the A303(E). The slip road is much closer to receptor 5 than the A303 itself (which is also in a cutting here) and will be the major noise source during some hours of the night. A proper assessment of the increase in night noise is urgently needed here. The night noise levels here are already way above the WHO recommendations and it is unacceptable that TVBC appear to have so little considerations for the residents here.