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Swanspool House Wellingborough Borough Council of NN8 1BP Wellingborough 11th September 2006 Regulatory Committee Wednesday 20th September 2006 at 7.00pm Council Chamber, Swanspool House AGENDA 1. Apologies for absence. Ι 2. Declarations of Interest (if any). Ι 3. Confirmation of the minutes of the meeting held on 16/8/2006. Ι 4. Applications for planning permission, building regulation approval etc. 5. Planning Appeal Decision - 4 Austin Close, Irchester. 6. Any other business that the Chairman decides is urgent. Ι Enclosed Please note: Site Viewing Group for Tuesday 19th September 2006 will be Councillors Morrall, Smith, L Lawman and Waters. Lyn Martin-Bennison Chief Executive Membership: Councillor Waters (Chairman), Councillor Morrall (Vice- Chairman), Councillors Beirne, Dholakia, L Lawman, Mann, Old, Palmer, Patel, Ryan, Smith, Timms and Ward. For further copies of agenda and reports contact Performance and Democratic Services 01933 231511. Borough Council of Wellingborough Regulatory Committee Wednesday 20th September 2006 at 7.00 pm Council Chamber, Swanspool House INDEX Page No. SITE VIEWING GROUP WP/2006/0035/F - Factory, 36 Broad Street, Earls Barton. 1 WP/2006/0252/F - Tower Boot Co Limited, Wellingborough Road, Finedon. 11 WP/2006/0296/F - The Old Forge, Middle Street, Isham. 18 WP/2006/0320/F - Rear of no. 18 Church Street, Isham. 23 WP/2006/0369/F - Knuston High Copse Farm, Knuston High Farm, Station Road, Irchester. 29 DISTRICT WP/2004/0367/F - Wilby Homes, 97 Ex Works, Eastfield Road, Wollaston. 35 WP/2006/0253/F - Land off Church Way, Grendon. 54 WP/2006/0316/F - 4 Dovecote Yard, Orlingbury. 65 WP/2006/0385/F - 30 High Street, Wellingborough. 69 WP/2006/0419/F - 6 New Street, Wellingborough. 72 WP/2006/0432/F - 5A Rock Street, Wellingborough. 78 WP/2006/0439/F - 38 Manor Road, Mears Ashby. 82 WP/2006/0459/F Toy Box Nursery, 63 Croyland Road, Wellingborough. 85 FOR INFORMATION WP/2006/0406/C Wollaston School, Irchester Road, Wollaston. 88` 1 BOROUGH COUNCIL OF WELLINGBOROUGH AGENDA ITEM SITE VIEWING (Date of visit 19th September 2006 at 3.30 p.m.) Regulatory Committee 20/09/2006 Report of the Executive Director APPLICATION REF: WP/2006/0035/F PROPOSAL: Demolition of existing building and construction of nine dwellings (five 2-bed flats and four 3-bed houses) - amended plans. LOCATION: Factory, 36 Broad Street, Earls Barton, Wellingborough. APPLICANT: Bridgewest Construction Limited. This application is referred to the Regulatory Committee for determination because more than three letters of representation have been received from nearby neighbours, the Parish Council has objected to the proposal as have local ward Councillors. There have been many requests for the application site be the subject of a visit by the Site Viewing Group at school arriving or leaving times. PROPOSAL AND DESCRIPTION OF SITE: The applicant has described the proposal as nine dwellings. However, plots 1 – 3 are annotated on the plans as flats and plots 4 and 5 are divided horizontally which also classes them as flats. The density of the scheme is 75 units per hectare. An amended plan (471/5B) has been received on 17th July 2006 that illustrates a revised access arrangement. The application site is located close to the centre of Earls Barton and is also situated on the edge of it’s conservation area. The site was formerly host to a shoe factory; the majority of which has been razed to the ground but there is a residual two storey building on the site frontage to Broad Street. The application site benefits from an existing vehicular access and nearby there are several other access onto Broad Street including one that serves a doctors surgery. The rear of the site is vacant and it is beginning to become overgrown. There are three high walls that are in a state of disrepair on the boundaries with the other Brood Street properties and there is a lower wall that bounds the site with the Chapel to the west. On the southern boundary is a fence and the residential units in Blackwell Close together with a car park and turning area. Blackwell Close is accessed by vehicular and pedestrian traffic from Broad Street and it also benefits from a pedestrian walkway at its western end that connects it to Station Road. 1 t 6 o 3 1 6 All Saint's 2 3 4 Church 3 2 485200 © Crown Copyright. All rights reserved. WP/2006/0035/F 485400 Borough Council Of Wellingborough: Licence No.100018694. 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RELEVANT PLANNING HISTORY: WR/49/129 Proposed extension to factory – approved. WR/55/137 Extension to factory – approved. WR/74/2 Alterations to offices and despatch department – approved. WP/99/482 Site for new doctors surgery – conditionally approved. NATIONAL AND LOCAL PLANNING POLICY: Regional Spatial Strategy 8 Northamptonshire County Structure Plan - GS5, H3 and H6 Borough of Wellingborough Local Plan - G1, G4, H2, H12 and T9 Supplementary Planning Guidance – Parking, Planning Out Crime and Building Better Places Planning Policy Statement 1; Delivering Sustainable Development Planning Policy Guidance 3; Housing Planning Policy Statement 7; Sustainable Development in Rural Areas Planning Policy Guidance 13; Transport Planning Policy Guidance 15; Planning and the Historic Environment Planning Policy Statement 23; Planning and Pollution Control SUMMARY OF REPLIES TO CONSULTATIONS/REPRESENTATIONS RECEIVED: 1. Earls Barton Parish Council – objects to the application because access to the site should be secured through Blackwell Close for the following reasons: • Broad Street is one of the busiest thoroughfares in the village and an access would be completely unworkable. • Major issue with car parking in Broad Street and the access would have to cross a busy footpath which is frequently used as a route to the nearby schools which could endanger lives of children going to and from school. • Serious car parking situation in the Library car park. • There is an issue with the extremely busy Churchill Road junction due to the speed and frequency of cars which the development will exacerbate. • Footpath from Blackwell Close not included in the plans. The Parish Council goes on to request a visit form the site Viewing Group at 09:00 or 15:30 and suggests attendance from a Highways Officer of Northamptonshire County Council. The Parish Council has also forwarded a petition that contains 104 signatures who object to the proposed access onto Broad Street. 2. NCC Highways – “I find that, historically, the Blitz site was looked to as a means of access to land at the rear. In view of its lack of stagger from Churchill Road and lack of interest in adjoining land in order to construct a roundabout, the use of the land to 3 provide an adopted highway link was discounted. In the event the land was accessed through the Broad Street car park. It was at the time that the Blitz site was considered for a surgery, with considerable traffic movements, that it was required that the land should be accessed from the rear. In this event an alternative site was found for the surgery. More recently informal applications have been received for the use of the Blitz site for small scale residential development and the layout of the site by way of a shared private drive from a point of access onto Broad Street has evolved. During various negotiations the possibility of forming a footpath link has been mooted but in view of the lack of utility to the public at large and the concerns raised by "planning out crime" this suggestion is not supported by the Highway Authority. Alternative pedestrian access can be gained to the land at the rear by way of the footpath link from Station Road and from Broad Street by way of the new access road link through the car park site.