12 Application No C21/0803/11/LL Railway Institute Ffordd Euston, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2YP PDF 292 KB
Erection of 25 affordable units, access, car parking,
landscaping and associated works
LOCAL MEMBER: Councillor R Medwyn Hughes
Additional documents:
Decision:
DECISION:
To delegate powers to
the Senior Planning Manager to approve the application subject to the applicant
completing a Section 106 agreement to ensure a financial contribution for the
provision of open spaces and the following conditions:-
1.
Five years.
2.
In accordance with the
plans/details submitted with the application.
3.
Compliance with the
landscaping plan along with future maintenance work.
4.
Welsh Water condition
relating to submitting a foul water scheme for the development.
5.
Secure a
plan/arrangements to provide the affordable units e.g. mix, tenure, occupancy
criteria, timetable and arrangements to ensure that units are affordable now
and in perpetuity.
6.
Compliance with the
recommendations of the Ecological Appraisal and Arboricultural Impact
Assessment.
7.
Agree on details
regarding Welsh names for the development before the residential units are
occupied for any purpose along with advertising signage informing and promoting
the development.
8.
Working hours limited to
08:00-18:00 Monday to Friday; 08:00-13:00 Saturday and not at all on Sunday and
Bank Holidays.
9.
Submission of a
Construction Method Statement to include measures to reduce noise, dust and
vibration to be agreed with the LPA.
10. Ensure that the two windows facing the gable end of
number 11 Euston Road have permanent opaque glass.
11. Relevant conditions from the Transportation Unit.
12. Submission of
the design and use of solar panels.
Note: Need to submit a sustainable
drainage system application to be agreed with the Council.
Minutes:
Erect 25 affordable dwellings, access, parking
facilities, landscaping and associated works
Attention was
drawn to the late observations form.
a)
The Senior
Development Control Officer highlighted that this was a full application to
provide 25 affordable units in the form of self-contained flats/apartments, new
access, formalising and providing 13 parking spaces, landscaping and associated
work on the former Railway Institute site on Euston Road within the Bangor
development boundary as contained in the Anglesey and Gwynedd Joint Local
Development Plan, 2017 (LDP). This site had not been designated for any
specific use.
Bangor was identified as an Urban
Service Centre in Policy TAI1, and this policy supported housing developments
to meet the LDP's Strategy (Policy PS17), via housing designations and suitable
windfall sites within the development boundary, and were based on the
indicative provision contained within the LDP itself. It was reported that Bangor, by completing the existing land bank, had reached
its indicative growth level of 969 units and, in such circumstances,
consideration would be given to the units that had been completed thus far
within the Key Centres tier where there was a shortage of 371 units. Under such
circumstances, confirmation would need to be received with this particular
application outlining how the proposal would address the needs of the local
community.
·
Provision of 25 residential units, 100% affordable, on an accessible
brownfield site within the development boundary
·
Although the capacity figures for Bangor had been reached, the mix of
units proposed to be provided here was based on the demand figures for the
local needs for the local area and of flexible occupancy as the plan was
delivered with support from Welsh Government's Social Housing Grant and from
this perspective, all units will be subject to social rent levels.
·
As shown in SPG: Housing Mix (2018), the demand for one and two bedroom
units on social rent will increase in the near future with one-bedroom units
increasing from 13% to 26% and two-bedroom units increasing from 32% to 44%. It
also showed that the demand for three-bedroom social rent units will reduce
from 50% to 23%.
·
The units would be designed to the requirements of the Wales Development
Quality Requirement (2021)
It was explained that the proposal meant providing 100% affordable
residential units with Policy TAI 15 stating that as Bangor was situated within
the South Arfon Rural and Coastal Area in the LDP, that providing 20%
affordable housing was viable, which was the equivalent to providing five
affordable units in the context of this application. As the proposal involved
providing 100% affordable units, and provided there was a need for these types
of units, the proposal met the requirements of Policy TAI15 of the LDP.
It was considered that the application site was a previously developed
site (brownfield) that was suitable for residential use in an area which included
high density residential dwellings that were accessible to alternative modes of
transport to using a private car.
In the context of visual amenities, the site was prominent ... view the full minutes text for item 12