18/500160 - DEMOLITION OF EXISTING OFFICE BUILDING AND

ERECTION OF 43 NO. APARTMENTS AND ASSOCIATED VEHICULAR AND

PEDESTRIAN ACCESS - 3 TONBRIDGE ROAD, MAIDSTONE, KENT

 

The Chairman and Councillors Adkinson, Bartlett, Boughton, Round and

Wilby stated that they had been lobbied.

The Committee considered the report and the urgent update report of the

Head of Planning and Development.

The Principal Planning Officer said that KCC Flood and Water Management

had now commented on the information provided for the proposed

drainage strategy, which detailed the use of Permavoids under the access

road and hard surfaces, and considered it to be acceptable in principle

subject to the attachment of conditions requiring:

 

·         The submission of a sustainable surface water drainage scheme for

the site;

·         The submission of an operation and maintenance manual for the

proposed sustainable drainage scheme detailing how the scheme

would be implemented and maintained; and

·         The submission of a Verification Report demonstrating that the surface

water drainage system had been installed correctly and would be able

to achieve objectives in dealing with surface water.

 

The recommendation remained unchanged subject to the deletion of

condition 7 relating to surface water drainage and the attachment of the

conditions relating to surface water drainage as recommended by KCC

Flood and Water Management.

 

Mr Stroud addressed the meeting on behalf of the applicant.

 

RESOLVED: That subject to:

 

(a) The prior completion of a S106 legal agreement in such terms as the

Head of Legal Partnership may advise to secure a libraries

contribution of £2,064.68; AND

 

(b) The conditions and informatives set out in the report with the

deletion of condition 7 relating to surface water drainage, the

additional drainage conditions referred to by the Principal Planning

Officer in her verbal update at the meeting and an additional

informative relating to the possibility of providing a car sharing

scheme operating from the site being investigated by the applicant

(the wording to be finalised by the Head of Planning and

Development acting under delegated powers),

the Head of Planning and Development be given delegated powers to

grant permission and to be able to settle or amend any necessary Heads

of Terms of the legal agreement in line with the matters set out in the

recommendation and as resolved by the Planning Committee.

 

Voting: 6 – For 5 – Against 1 - Abstention

Councillors Adkinson and Boughton requested that their dissent be

recorded