Agenda item

(1)       Mr M A C Balfour informed the Committee that he had been a Member of Tonbridge and Malling BC and that he would not participate in any discussion of or decision arising out of Item F3 (Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council – Local Plan Post Submission Consultation.

(2)       Whilst noting Item F2, the Committee agreed by 12 vote to 0 with 1 abstention to ask the Chairman to write on its behalf to the Leader and Cabinet Portfolio Holder for Highways and Transport in respect of the problems likely to arise out of Swale BC’s decision to reject £38m from the Government’s Housing Infrastructure Fund for A249 improvements in the light of the Secretary of State for Communities’ decision to uphold an appeal against non-determination and grant permission for a major housing development in the Borough.

(3)       Whilst noting Item F3, the Committee agreed by 8 votes to 1 with 3 abstentions (Mr Balfour took no part in the discussion and did not vote) to ask the Committee Chairman to write to the Leader and Cabinet Member for Environment as set out in (4) below.

(4)       RESOLVED :-

(a)          that the Chairman be requested to write on behalf of the Committee to the Leader and Cabinet Portfolio Holder for Highways and Transport in respect of the problems likely to arise out of Swale BC’s decision to reject £38m from the Government’s Housing Infrastructure Fund for A249 improvements in the light of the Secretary of State for Communities’ decision to uphold an appeal against non-determination and grant permission for a major housing development in the Borough.

(b)       that the Chairman be requested to write to the Leader and Cabinet Portfolio Holder for the Environment setting out the Committee’s view that the changes to the Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council Local Plan’s Proposals Map ED22A are completely unacceptable and in clear contravention of the Kent Minerals and Waste Local Plan and that, in addition, the premature closure of the Borough Green Landfill site , the resultant loss of recycled secondary aggregates and the prospective loss of the landfill waste site is in conflict with the Kent Minerals and Waste Local Plan and that, accordingly Tonbridge and Malling BC has not met its duty to co-operate with the Minerals Planning Authority; and  

(c)       to note Kent County Council’s responses to the following consultations:-

(i)           Application CA/19/00557/OUT Location - Land south of Osborne Gardens, Herne Bay Proposal - Outline application for proposed residential development for up to 180 dwellings with site access, open space and associated infrastructure following demolition of 2 no. dwellings; 

(ii)          Application SW/18/502190/EIHYB Location - Land North Quinton Road, Sittingbourne, Kent ME10 2SX Proposal - Full Planning Application - Phase 1 North – Erection of 91 dwellings accessed from Grovehurst Road, public open and amenity space (including an equipped children's play area) together with associated landscaping and ecological enhancement works, acoustic barrier to the A249, internal access roads, footpaths, cycleways and parking, drainage (including infiltration basins and tanked permeable paving), utilities and service infrastructure works. Full Planning Application - Phase 1 South - Erection of 252 dwellings (including 34 affordable dwellings) accessed from Quinton Road, public open and amenity space, together with associated landscaping and ecological enhancement works, internal access roads, footpaths, cycleways and parking, drainage (including infiltration swales, ring soakaways, and permeable paving), utilities and service infrastructure works. Outline Planning Application - for up to 857 new dwellings (including 10% affordable housing, subject to viability), a site of approximately 10 ha for a secondary and primary school, a mixed-use local centre, including land for provision of a convenience store, public open and amenity space (including equipped children's play areas), together with associated landscaping and ecological enhancement works, acoustic barrier to the A249, internal access roads, footpaths, cycleways and parking, drainage (including a foul water pumping station and sustainable drainage systems), utilities and service infrastructure. All matters reserved, except for access for the school’s site from Grovehurst Road;

(iii)         Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council - Local Plan Post Submission Consultation; and 

(iv)         Thanet District Council Local Plan Main Modifications.