Issue - meetings

Erection of retirement living accommodation comprising 40 self-contained apartments with associated communal facilities, landscaping and car parking, following demolition of existing buildings/structures.

The Committee recommend to grant planning permission subject to conditions and the completion of a legal agreement securing the following heads of terms:

·         £97,000 be paid to the Council to fund improvements to sports, recreation and play facilities in Torkington Park;

·         £30,000 be paid to the Council to fund improvements to the two bus stops on Commercial Road closest to the application site and for the provision of additional dropped kerbs and tactile paving in the vicinity of the application site; and

·         £248,000 be paid to the Council for the provision of affordable housing off-site subject to a recovery provision reducing/eliminating this commuted sum should the development be prevented from generating income from ground rents prior to occupation of proposed dwellings.

Officer contact: Daniel Hewitt on 0161 218 1989 or email: daniel.hewitt@stockport.gov.uk

In respect of plan no. DC067919 for the erection of retirement living accommodation comprising 40 self-contained apartments with associated communal facilities, landscaping and car parking, following demolition of existing buildings/structures at the Former Royal Oak, 104 Commercial Road, Hazel Grove, it was

RESOLVED – That planning permission be granted.

Erection of retirement living accommodation comprising 40 self-contained apartments with associated communal facilities, landscaping and car parking, following demolition of existing buildings/structures.

The Area Committee is invited to recommend to the Planning & Highways Regulation Committee that it grant planning permission subject to conditions and the completion of a legal agreement securing the following heads of terms:

·         £97,000 be paid to the Council to fund improvements to sports, recreation and play facilities in Torkington Park;

·         £30,000 be paid to the Council to fund improvements to the two bus stops on Commercial Road closest to the application site and for the provision of additional dropped kerbs and tactile paving in the vicinity of the application site; and

·         £248,000 be paid to the Council for the provision of affordable housing off-site subject to a recovery provision reducing/eliminating this commuted sum should the development be prevented from generating income from ground rents prior to occupation of proposed dwellings.

In respect of plan no. 67919 for erection of retirement living accommodation comprising 40 self-contained apartments with associated communal facilities, landscaping and car parking, following demolition of existing buildings/structures.

a member of the public spoke against the application on behalf of local residents

and

the applicant’s agent and member of the public spoke in support of the application.

It was then

RESOLVED – (5 in favour, 3 against) That the Planning & Highways Regulation Committee be recommended to undertake a site visit in view of the Area Committee’s concerns about highway safety; the size, massing and positioning of the building; the impact on the privacy of adjacent residents.