Issue - meetings

Full application for the erection of up to 15 No. Affordable Dwellings and Associated Development including creation of a new vehicular access and estate road, landscaping and creation of a sustainable surface water drainage area. 

LOCAL MEMBER: Councillor Jina Gwyrfai

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DECISION: To approve with conditions and subject to a 106 agreement or unilateral agreement for securing a contribution to open spaces

1.     Time

2.     In accordance with the plans

3.     Materials

4.     Affordable housing condition

5.     Highway conditions

6.     Biodiversity conditions

7.     Landscaping condition

8.     Welsh Water Condition

9.     Removal of permitted development rights involving extensions and use

10.  Drainage matters.

11.  Building Control Plan

12.  Matters relating to air pumps

Full application to build 15 affordable homes with associated developments including the creation of a new vehicular access and estate road, landscaping and creation of a sustainable surface water drainage area.

         Attention was drawn to the late observations form.

         Some members had visited the site on 25-03-26

a)           The Development Control Team Leader highlighted that this was a full planning application to erect 15 new affordable houses, as well as associated work on an adjacent site, but outside the current development boundary of the village of Trefor. ⁠It was reiterated that the provision would offer a mix of houses - 4 two-bedroom bungalows, 5 three-bedroom two-storey houses, 1 four-bedroom two-storey house and 1 six-bedroom house. Externally, they would be finished with a mixture of render, stone and cement cladding on the walls and a natural slate roof and solar panels.

Confirmation was received from the applicant that the development was submitted in the form of a neutral plan in terms of tenure, which would provide 100% affordable housing. The owner would be Grŵp Cynefin, providing a mix of tenure such as social rent housing, intermediate affordable rent housing and part-ownership in accordance with the demand.

It was reported that the land was currently an agricultural field with residential houses to the west and houses directly opposite. It was noted that there was a fence, cloddiau and hedges on the boundaries and a class 3 public road alongside the northern boundary, with the site and the wider area within the designations of the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and within the Llŷn and Enlli Landscape of Outstanding Historic Interest.

In accordance with the arrangements of the Planning Service Delegation Scheme, the application was submitted to the Committee as it was an application for 5 or more houses. It was considered that the proposal, as submitted, was acceptable based on the following:

·        That the Authority's adopted policies stated that Councils would seek to ensure an appropriate level of affordable housing in the LDP area.

·        The proposal would provide a 100% affordable development with the Housing Strategic Unit confirming that there was evidence of the need to justify the provision, in order to address the needs of the local community.

·        49 was the combined figure on the Tai Teg register for intermediate housing, and the Social Housing register for Trefor, as well as the nearby villages of Llanaelhaearn, Llithfaen and Clynnog for housing. Despite this, and as a result of receiving additional, more detailed and specific information from the agent, the housing need figure had now been noted as a minimum of 25, namely the number of the people on the housing need list who had been identified as having a five-year connection to the area. It was considered that these figures confirmed that real affordable local need existed to justify the development of 15 houses to address the local need.

·        That a further response had been received from Natural Resources Wales (NRW) based on their concerns about the impact  ...  view the full minutes text for item 6