Agenda item

Outline application for the erection of up to 80 dwellings with associated access.

A site visit was held in respect of this application on 8^th December 2025 by Councillors Louise Belcher, Dave Brookes, Keith Budden, Alan Greenwell, John Hanson, Paul Newton, Catherine Potter, Robert Redfern and Sandra Thornberry. In attendance was Planning Applications Manager Jennifer Rehman.

It was proposed by Councillor John Hanson and seconded by Councillor Robert Redfern:

“That the application be approved subject to the conditions in the Committee Report together with the modification to the Education financial contribution as contained within the published update.”

Upon being put to the vote, 13 Councillors voted in favour of the proposal with none against and 1 abstention, whereupon the Chair declared the proposal to have been carried.

Resolved:

That the application be approved subject to the following conditions including the modification to the Education financial contribution as contained within the published update:

·       the satisfactory completion of a Legal Agreement within 3 months of the date of this Committee meeting, to cater for the provisions below. In the event that a satisfactory Section 106 Agreement is not concluded within the timescale above, or other agreed extension of time, to delegate authority to the Chief Officer – Planning and Climate Change to refuse planning permission on the grounds that the obligations which make the development acceptable have not been legally secured;

and the following obligations are required:

·       Provision of policy-compliant (DM3 of the DM DPD) Affordable Housing (to be provided on site) in accordance with an Affordable Housing Scheme to be submitted with Reserved Matters and approved by the Council before the commencement of development.

·       Provision of on-site of Amenity Greenspace and Equipped Play Area

·       Submission of an updated BNG Baseline matrix and provision of on-site Biodiversity Net Gain in accordance with an approved BNG Plan and Landscape and Ecological Creation and Management Plan.

·       BNG monitoring costs.

·       Education contribution towards 18 primary school places, to be re-calculated at reserved matters stage, to be directed towards the extension of either of the named existing school sites.

·       Highways contribution of £2,271.79 per dwelling towards Lancaster Travel and Transport Infrastructure Strategy initiatives (specified at paragraph 5.3.13).

·       Off-site open space contributions towards facilities at Halton The Centre and Allotments

·       Setting up of a Management Company; and

·       Management and Maintenance of all landscaping, unadopted roads, lighting and drainage infrastructure and on-site open space.

and subject to the following conditions:

1.     Timescale for submission of reserved matters application (2YRS).

2.     Development in accordance with Approved Plans (Location plan, Parameters Plan and Access Plan).

3.     Reserved Matters to be based on the broad principles set out in the submitted Indicative Framework Plan.

4.     Final Surface Water Sustainable Drainage Strategy.

5.     Construction Surface Water Management Plan.

6.     Construction Environment Management Plan – Ecology.

7.     Construction Management Plan – Highways.

8.     Construction Method Statement including dust control, noise management and construction working hours – Amenity.

9.     Precise construction details of main vehicular site access and specified off site highway improvements including timetable for implementation and requirement for the construction of site access to compound and development parcels to base course level.

10.  Precise design and construction details of active travel/pedestrian route up to site western boundary and provision and maintenance.

11.  Contaminated land investigation.

12.  Archaeology investigation.

13.  Foul drainage strategy.

14.  Submission of a Sustainable Design Statement including Energy and Carbon Statement.

15.  Invasive Non-Native Species Biosecurity Management Plan.

16.  Employment and Skills Plan.

17.  Construction details of the internal estate roads, private drives, footways and other active travel routes within the site to be designed to adoptable standards and LTN 1/20 and their management/maintenance.

18.  Updated Arboricultural Impact Assessment/Tree Protection Plan/Arboricultural Method Statement.

19.  Habitat Creation Plan – Species.

20.  Scheme for M4(2) accessible and adaptable dwellings – to be minimum 20% of all dwellings.

21.  Details of housing mix to accord with policy DM1 – Halton with Aughton NDP HNS.

22.  Scheme for external lighting (street lighting and lighting of open space areas).

23.  Precise details of all play equipment, public realm furniture, and signposting.

24.  Sustainable drainage system operation and maintenance manual.

25.  Verification report of constructed sustainable drainage system.

26.  Details of Homeowner Information Packs.

27.  Provide and protect visibility splays.

28.  All dwellings to achieve Building Regulations Requirement G2: Water Efficiency.

29.  All dwellings to achieve NDSS.

30.  Provision of turning and parking.

31.  Development in accordance with access design Arboricultural Method Statement.

32.  Limit building heights to maximum 1 storey as detailed on the Parameters Plan and maximum of 2 storey elsewhere.

33.  Implement travel plan.

34.  Development in accordance with the specified mitigation set out in the approved Flood Risk Assessment.

35.  Development in accordance with the specified mitigation set out in the approved Noise Impact Assessment.