Issue - meetings

To consider application UTT/20/0422/FUL.

The Planning Officer presented an application for the erection of 12 dwellings including new access and associated landscaping, with the creation of a parking area for the adjacent playing field.

The land is located directly to the north of the development limits of Hatfield Heath, within the Metropolitan Green Belt.  

The housing mix would consist of 1 x 1 bedroom house, 6 x 2 bedroom houses, 3 x 3 bedroom houses and 1 x 4 bedroom house. The buildings would be arranged either side of the new access road.  

Ten of the dwellings would be provided as affordable housing and two of the plots would be market housing.

The scheme was recommended with conditional approval of the S106 agreement.

The following comments were made by Members:-

·         The Parish Council were in favour of the scheme.

·         Access onto the site was through a housing estate with narrow roads,  assurance was needed that this would not occur during key times e.g. rush hour.

·         To provide all residents with the Site Manager’s contact details.

·         There was concern that the site was outside development limits and on the green belt.

·         There was general consensus that it was a good scheme and there was a local need for affordable homes. 

·         Hastoe Housing had produced similar developments with other successful schemes.

·         A suggestion that other means of accessing the site were looked into – possibly across nearby fields.

The Development Manager said that there was already a recommended condition 10, regarding a construction site management plan.  He suggested that prior to any development, there was early engagement with residents including UDC Housing and the Parish Council.  Additionally safe access onto the site (including alternative ways to temporarily access the site during works).

Councillor Reeve proposed that the application be approved with the above conditions.

Councillor Fairhurst seconded the motion.

RESOLVED to approve the application with conditional approval of the s106 agreement.

P McKeown (Planning Consultant on behalf of the applicant) spoke in support of the application.