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19/00054/As Pdf 2 Mb Ashford Borough Council - Report of Head of Development Management and Strategic Sites Planning Committee 20 March 2019 ___________________________________________________________________ Application Number 19/00054/AS Location Victoria Park, Jemmett Road, Ashford, Kent Grid Reference 00415, 42238 Parish Council None Ward Victoria Application Extension to existing nursery building to create new cafe Description provision. Improvements to entrances on public highway, resurfacing and extension to existing car park, new CCTV, lighting columns adjacent to new cafe (+4m in height), new feature play equipment (+4m in height). Applicant Emma Powell, Open Space Planning Development Officer, Ashford Borough Council, Civic Centre, Tannery Lane, Ashford, Kent, TN23 1PL Agent Mr James Penney, Allen Scott Ltd, 44 Newton Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN1 1RU Site Area 0.66ha (a) 435/1S/1R (b) - (c) KHS/X, SUDS/X, KCC Arch/-, KCC Ecology/R, EA/X, KF&R/X, Police/+, EHM/X, Street Scene/-, Culture/-, SWS/-, Ashford Access/X Introduction 1. This application is reported to the Planning Committee because the Council is both the landowner and applicant. As such under the Council’s scheme of delegation, it falls to the Planning Committee to determine this application. Site and Surroundings 2. The application site comprises land located within Victoria Park, a Council owned and maintained strategic recreation facility providing play equipment for different age groups, areas of open space for informal play and more formal areas of planting. The site is located close to the town centre with residential areas to the south, the River Stour to the north and industrial units and forthcoming residential developments beyond. Ashford Borough Council - Report of Head of Development Management and Strategic Sites Planning Committee 20 March 2019 ___________________________________________________________________ 3. The site is located within Floodzones 2 and 3 and forms part of the Ashford Green Corridor. 4. Victoria Park is a late-nineteenth century park. The park comprises tree-lined footpaths, a riverside footpath and cycle way and Watercress Fields area of open space. The park is also notable for its grade II* listed nineteenth century ornamental Hubert Fountain which was donated to the park in the early- twentieth century. The fountain is a key heritage asset of the borough and there are impressive views to the fountain from Victoria Road and Jemmett Road and from within the park itself. 5. Figure 1 below shows the location of the park in relation to its surroundings. Figure 1: Site Location Plan Proposal 6. An application for planning permission has been made for various improvements to Victoria Park which forms part of a wider scheme of proposed improvements and a potential bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). The works that are the subject of this application are as follows: Ashford Borough Council - Report of Head of Development Management and Strategic Sites Planning Committee 20 March 2019 ___________________________________________________________________ Extension and alteration to existing nursery school and toilet block 7. An extension is proposed to the north east of the existing nursery and toilet block. The extension would facilitate additional space within the building for a café. Externally there would be an outside seating area. The works aim to enlarge and modernise the external appearance of the building, presenting a revised choice of materials across the existing building while implementing a feature mono-pitched roof. Chosen materials would comprise natural timber and brickwork cladding and metal roofing. 8. Figure 2 below details the proposed elevations. Figure 2: proposed extension to create cafe Access to the public highway 9. A new vehicular ‘events entrance’ is proposed to the east of the park as shown in Figure 3 below (circled in red) that would ordinarily be secured by x 4 stainless steel bollards: Ashford Borough Council - Report of Head of Development Management and Strategic Sites Planning Committee 20 March 2019 ___________________________________________________________________ Figure 3: Proposed new event vehicular access Resurfacing and extension to car park 10. An extended area of hardsurfacing is proposed to be provided to the existing Council owned car park. These works would increase the number of parking spaces from 57 to 68 in total. The improvements would also double the number of disabled parking spaces from 2 to 4 and would incorporate electric vehicle charging points. The new car park surface would comprise permeable asphalt. New bicycle stands are also proposed here. Figure 4 below details the extent of the extension to the car park. Ashford Borough Council - Report of Head of Development Management and Strategic Sites Planning Committee 20 March 2019 ___________________________________________________________________ Figure 4: Proposed car park extension Pathways and additional areas of hardstanding 11. A new 1.8 metre footpath is proposed to join the residential area to the west to Victoria Park via Watercress Fields and. This path would be constructed of permeable asphalt and is intended to provide a better. Figure 5 below shows this route and extent of the new footpath. New areas of hardstanding are also proposed in the following areas (locations identified in orange in Figure 6). Extended footpath links into and through the Sensory Garden to make the area more accessible. Associated with the relocated children’s playground, new play surfacing. Asphalt footpath from the Gasworks Lane entrance to the Hubert Fountain. Footpaths connections through the Adventure Play Area to better connect residents north of the River Stour to the park. A new high quality plaza / spill out space around the new hub building using granite plank paving to compliment the natural external building materials. New seating area around the Hubert Fountain to enhance and enhance its setting and improve visual connections. Ashford Borough Council - Report of Head of Development Management and Strategic Sites Planning Committee 20 March 2019 ___________________________________________________________________ Figure 5: Proposed extent of new footpath Figure 6: Locations of new areas of hardstanding (shown in orange) Play equipment, CCTV and lighting columns over 4 metres 12. Feature play equipment, CCTV and lighting columns are also proposed. The play equipment would relate to other works to improve the existing play facilities that are being carried out within the park. Only structures over 4 metres high require planning permission granted in response to an application in this case due to the provisions of the General Permitted Development Ashford Borough Council - Report of Head of Development Management and Strategic Sites Planning Committee 20 March 2019 ___________________________________________________________________ Order. The Order allows certain works to be carried out as ‘permitted development’ by statutory undertakers (such as local authorities including parish councils) without the need to make an application for planning permission. The full details of the play equipment, CCTV equipment and lighting columns have not been provided in full at this stage and therefore it is intended that these details would be secured by a planning condition to be submitted for consideration at a later date. 13. Additionally, there are other sundry proposed works within the application which do not require planning permission due to the aforementioned permitted development rights (Class A of Part 12 of Schedule 2 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) to undertake works on land belonging to the Council for the Council to undertake its statutory function. These works include small play equipment, bridges, landscaping, and seating areas. 14. The Victoria Park Masterplan which details a comprehensive list of all of the intended improvements is attached as Annex 2 to this report. This includes both works that require planning permission via the making of an application and those that do not and would be ‘permitted development’. Supporting documents 15. The following supporting documents have been provided in relation to this application and are summarised below. Design & Access Statement Ashford has been a designated South East growth area and is projected to double in size by 2030, with 31,000 new homes and 28,000 new jobs planned [HoDM&SS note: this was the aspiration of the Core Strategy which has now been superseded by the new Local Plan to 2030]. In order to sustainably deliver this growth, Ashford Borough Council (ABC) have developed a five year corporate plan, (Aspiration, Action and Achievement 2015 - 2020). The plan identifies the importance of Victoria Park & Watercress Fields in the context of Ashford’s growth agenda which has led to the current Victoria Park project which is part of a Heritage Lottery Fund Parks for People bid. The corridor also contains NCR 18 (Canterbury to Tunbridge Wells). Primary movement patterns are primarily around, rather than through the park via NCR 18 and Jemmett Road, as well as from Hillbrow Road to the fountain and the adjacent bridge. The park is located within the Victoria Ward, which is the most socially deprived ward in Ashford, and together with neighbouring Stanhope Ward Ashford Borough Council - Report of Head of Development Management and Strategic Sites Planning Committee 20 March 2019 ___________________________________________________________________
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