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the application, therefore, is supported. The Local Plan seeks to phase the site’s release towards the end of the plan period (2011), but the precise timing of this is a matter for Rother District Council to determine. 2. Transport and Rights of Way 2.1 Access to the development site and the traffic impacts arising from this outline proposal are considered acceptable, subject to securing the detailed design of the roundabout as recommended by the stage one safety audit. The County Council as Highway Authority will require a Local Sustainable Accessibility Improvement Contribution (LSAIC) from the development to spend on local measures in order to provide for the transport demand that the development would create. Contributions will also be sought for improvements to rights of way and bus services. 3. Other Infrastructure 3.1 The development will put additional demands on other County Council infrastructure in the Rye area including nursery school, library and waste facilities. Contributions should therefore be secured for additional County Council infrastructure requirements, as advised in detail by the County Council’s Development Contributions Co-ordinator. 4. Landscape and Archaeology 4.1 The proposal is generally acceptable in landscape terms provided the illustrative layout accompanying the application is maintained in subsequent detailed applications. In order to secure the new landscape structure, which mitigates impact on the wider AONB landscape, the developer should enter into a section 106 agreement with Rother District Council to contain the development and fund the on going management of the landscape areas. County Council officers are happy to provide advice as the detailed application is developed. The development could potentially reveal archaeological remains therefore a suitable condition should be sought to secure a detailed archaeological mitigation scheme to be developed between the applicants and Rother District Council. 5. Waste Minimisation 5.1 Any development on this site should minimise waste generation arising from construction in accordance with policies in the Waste Local Plan and the Construction and Demolition Waste Supplementary Planning Document. The applicant, therefore, must provide a site waste management plan to ensure that as far as possible construction and demolition waste can be dealt with on site or can be recycled and reused. RUPERT CLUBB Director of Transport and Environment 2 October 2007 Contact Officer: Ellen Reith 01273 481708 Local Member: Councillor Keith Glazier BACKGROUND DOCUMENTS East Sussex and Brighton & Hove Structure Plan (1991-2011) East Sussex and Brighton & Hove Waste Local Plan (2006) Email from Senior Landscape Architect – 14/09/07 Email from the County Ecologist – 17/09/07 Email from the County Archaeologist – 19/09/07 Development Contributions Coordinator’s response to Rother DC – 21/09/07 Highway Authority HT401 – 28/09/07
APPENDIX CONSIDERATION OF THE ISSUES 1. Site 1.1 This is a greenfield site on the western edge of Rye that lies within the local plan’s defined development boundary and includes an allocation for housing development. The site is bounded by existing residential development to the south east that follows the Udimore Road (B2089) and to the north east by the Tillingham Estate. Part of the site at the southern end has direct frontage to the Udimore Road itself. To the north and west of the site is open countryside. 1.2 The site is in agricultural use, consisting entirely of pasture in fields divided by hedgerows, some of which contain standard trees. The site is not the subject of any nature conservation or landscape designations, but the north western part of the site adjoins the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). 1.3 The site falls gently from west to east and includes part of a minor valley with a water course. The southern end of the site is the most prominent from the surrounding landscape. 2. The Proposal 2.1 The proposal is an outline planning application for 135 dwellings on 3.8 hectares of the site which is 10.87 hectares in total. The dwellings will be at a net density of 35.5 dwellings per hectare and some 40% would be affordable homes. The remainder of the site is proposed for play space, open space and landscaping. Permission is also being sought for a new access from Udimore Road in the form of a lit mini roundabout. 2.2 The indicative layout of the site locates the housing mainly within the centre of the site immediately north of residential development fronting Udimore Road and away from the boundary to the west with the High Weald AONB. Layout, scale, appearance, landscaping are to be dealt with at the subsequent reserved matters stage. 3. Comments / Appraisal 3.1 The key strategic planning issues of relevance to this application are: • transport and rights of way • other infrastructure • landscape and archaeology • waste minimisation Development Plan Policy 3.2 The adopted Rother District Local Plan (RDLP) 2006 allocates 3.8 hectares of the land north of Udimore Road for housing, (policy RY5). The local plan considers that the site is suitable for a minimum of 114 dwellings to be at a density of at least 30 dwellings per hectare, of which 40% are to be affordable. The remainder of the site is identified for landscaping, amenity land and public open space. Access is to be provided via a mini roundabout to Udimore Road. 3.3 The site is covered also by RDLP phasing policy DS6 which controls the release of allocated residential sites for development. The site is identified as a reserve site that will only be released if it is found necessary to meet the Structure Plan housing requirements up to 2011. The underlying aim of the policy is to minimise greenfield land take if sufficient
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