Agenda and minutes

The Committee noted that Councillor Margaret Hersey substituted for Councillor Moore.

The Committee noted that apologies had been received from Councillor Pru Moore as she attended the meeting as the Ward Member for Burgess Hill - Leylands.

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The Minutes of the Committee held on 6 September 2018 were agreed as a correct record and signed by the Chairman.

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Steve King, Planning Applications Team Leader introduced the report which detailed the application which sought outline planning permission for a residential development comprising up to 460 dwellings, public open space, recreation areas, play areas, associated infrastructure including roads, surface water attenuation and associated demolition (outline application with all matters reserved except for principal means of access from Maple Drive).  

He drew Members attention to the information in the Agenda Update Sheet and the recommendation on p11 as the terms of the legal agreement had not been finalised.  He advised that Burgess Hill Town Council had reconsidered in light of the commitment in the IDP and Planning Strategy to the early completion of the link road between the site and Isaacs Lane, provided their comments and now supported the application.  Condition 18 had been removed as it was a duplicate of condition 12 and there were extra conditions covering ecology matters and additional highway works.   

The Committee were informed that the outline planning application was to determine the access for the proposed development and that if this outline application was approved a reserved matters application would be received at a later date for the remaining matters.  The Officer advised that the site was situated within an area that had been allocated for development in the District Plan.  Key elements of the Northern Arc Masterplan were highlighted and plans providing indicative densities were displayed.  The Officer noted that the application conformed with the principles set out in the Masterplan.   The size of the site was 20 ha.  He advised the Committee that there was a consented site to the south west of the application site and open fields to the west.  The applicant had submitted a parameter plan showing broad areas of development within the site with public open spaces and play areas.  The higher density areas would be at the southern end, medium density in the centre and low density at the northern end.  The layout was only illustrative to highlight the means of access from Maple Drive and to show how the site could accommodate the proposed number of dwellings. 

The Planning Applications Team Leader drew Members attention to the issues listed on p19 of the report but as the site had been allocated in the District Plan the principle of development had been established.    He noted that the landscape impacts were detailed on p26 and that West Sussex County Council concluded that the development could be achieved with no severe highway impact.  He advised that the design of the site would be a perimeter block layout with houses facing outwards towards the boundary treatments as detailed on p27.  The housing mix was indicative and would be determined at reserved matters; the site would include 30% affordable housing which was acceptable and policy compliant.  There were no significant amenity impacts to the properties in The Hawthorns.  The site represented the first application for the development of the Northern Arc and the IDP and Phasing Strategy indicated that  the application for  ...  view the full minutes text for item 7.

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