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Page 12 It was resolved that the application be DEFERRED for a Members’ Site Inspection (Members and officers plus applicants by invite – but not any objectors) to assess the proposed layout, parking provision and traffic and the impact on the character of the area. Members are requested to bring to this meeting a copy of agenda items 5c and 5d and the supplementary report of the Board meeting on 27 May 2009. 2. Site Inspection The site inspection was held at 10.00am on Saturday 6 June 2009. Present: Cllr H Craske (Chairman) Cllr Jane Cribbon Cllr Susan Howes Cllr A Moore Cllr C Broadley Cllr Mrs P Oakeshott, Ward Councillor Cllr B Sweetland, Ward Councillor Apologies were received from: Cllr R Theobald Cllr K Jones Cllr J Burden In Attendance: Mr P Price, Principal Planner Mr M Jessop, Senior Planner Mr R Bright, Senior Engineer Mr John Collins, David Hicken Associates, Applicants Agents Mr Ian McCourt, Kent Design Partnership, Applicants Architects Mr Terry Phillips, Moat Housing Mr Colin Fuller, Red Admiral Homes. Cllr Craske introduced the Councillors and explained the purpose of the site inspection. Mr Price introduced the officers present and the applicant’s team. Mr Price outlined the extent of the site and explained the proposals as currently submitted. He advised that the proposals as reported to the last Board meeting were for:- • Conversion of the public house into nine flats (four x one bedroom of which one is a bedsit and five x two bedrooms) • Terrace of three houses (two bedrooms) fronting Canal Road • Open parking barn at the rear of terrace of three dwellings • Further parking barn with a two bedroom flat over (this would be an affordable unit) REPORT NO PAGE 2
Page 13 • Pair of semi detached two storey dwellings with garages at the rear of the public house fronting Church Street In the separate application on the paddock area it is proposed to erect a • terrace of three affordable dwellings plus a separate open parking barn • a pair of two storey semi detached affordable dwellings Thus 10 flats and 10 houses – 20 units in total of which six are affordable. He advised that a previous scheme submitted last year to demolish the Public House and erect a two/three storey building for 10 flats and a pair of two storey semis, a two storey terrace of seven dwellings and terrace of three dwellings thus 22 units in total was refused last year on density, scale and impact on the setting of the listed building at Dairy Farm. An appeal had been lodged but withdrawn prior to the hearing. He pointed out that planning permission was granted for a pair of cottages on the car park fronting Canal Road. This was an outline application and on a smaller site and took up less of the car park than proposed for the terrace of three dwellings in the new scheme. He advised that following the last refusal the whole site was included in the recently designated Lower Higham Conservation Area. He pointed out that the current scheme now retains the public house and the built form of development is generally modest sized, well designed cottages in character with the area. He advised that there is no planning objection from officers to the principle of the development although he acknowledged that there is some encroachment of development into the Green Belt beyond the village boundary. He suggested that this was not a significant impact in openness of the Green Belt. All the affordable element is within the Green Belt (other than the flat over the garage, or FOG) – but this nevertheless does accord with the Council’s Rural Exceptions Site Policy – and such housing would remain affordable in perpetuity. He considered it was a sustainable location being on the edge of the village, close to amenities particularly the railway station. He advised that the Action for Communities in Rural Kent (ACRK) Survey had indicated a need for between14-22 affordable housing units in Higham. The schemes at Jupp Court and Isis Cottages, which were both in the Green Belt, had provided nine and three units respectively. He advised that in 2009 there were 34 persons in Higham who were on the common housing register, of which 12 had expressed an interest in low cost ownership. He advised that the proposals were assessed in terms of impact on loss of privacy and amenity to adjoining property – it was considered there was no material harm. In respect of parking he advised that the scheme offered one space per unit; plots 10 and 11 fronting Church Street have two each plus the were three visitor spaces for the entire scheme meaning a total of 25 spaces (for 20 units). REPORT NO PAGE 3
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