Agenda and minutes

To approve as a correct record and sign the Minutes of the meeting held on 19 June 2013.

The Minutes (copies of which had been circulated) of the meeting held on 19 June 2013 were approved as a correct record and signed by the Chair.

No declarations of interest were made.

Members of the public are invited to put questions to the Chair of the Town Centre Committee on any matters within the powers and duties of the Town Centre Committee, subject to the exclusions set out in the Code of Practice (Questions must be submitted prior to the commencement of the meeting on the cards provided. These are available the meeting and at local libraries and information centres.  You can also submit via the Council’s website at www.stockport.gov.uk/publicquestions.

No public questions were submitted.

To consider a report of the Corporate Director for Place Management and Regeneration

Officer contact: Emma Curle on 0161 474 3542, e-mail emma.curle@stockport.gov.uk

Residential development comprising 21 new dwellings, associated car parking, new access road and site re-levelling (Plot 4) at Land at Hopes Carr (Plot 4) to rear of Watson House, and Chapel Studios.

The Committee is recommended to grant planning permission.

A development application was submitted.

(NOTE: Full details of the decisions including conditions and reasons for granting or refusing planning permission and imposing conditions are given in the schedule of plans. The Corporate Director for Place Management and Regeneration is authorised to determine conditions and reasons and they are not therefore referred to in committee minutes unless the committee makes a specific decision on a condition or reason. In order to reduce printing costs and preserve natural resources, the schedule of plans is not reproduced within these minutes. A copy of the schedule of plans is available on the council’s website at www.stockport.gov.uk/planningdecisions. Copies of the schedule of plans, or any part thereof, may be obtained from the Place Directorate upon payment of the Council’s reasonable charges).

DC052952 - Land at Hopes Carr (Plot 4) to rear of Watson House and Chapel Studios

In respect of plan no. 52952 for a residential development comprising twenty one new dwellings, associated car parking, new access road and site re-levelling (Plot 4) on land at Hopes Carr (Plot 4) to the rear of Watson House and Chapel Studios, it was

RESOLVED- That the Corporate Director for Place Management and Regeneration be authorised to determine the application, pending completion of a Deed of Variation to the Unilateral Undertaking under the Section 106 Agreement to allow for the following:-

·         Provision and maintenance of recreation and amenity open space in accordance with policy SIE-2;

·         Highway contributions in respect of improvements to the Waterloo Road/Spring Gardens/Churchgate junction improvement; and

·         New Traffic Regulation Orders and a full Travel Plan.