Issue - meetings

Demolition of the existing Racehorse Training Establishment (RTE) and the erection of a new RTE comprising of a main yard stable complex of 40 boxes, a secondary stable block of 20 boxes, an isolation yard, a trainer and assistant trainers house, stable staff accommodation, horse walkers, muck pits, a therapy barn, trotting ring and outdoor school, a lunge ring, turnout paddocks and a machinery store and storage barn and enabling residential development comprising 46 apartments. [Description amended to reflect reduction in 1 apartment (47 to 46)

Description

Demolition of the existing Racehorse Training Establishment (RTE) and the erection of a new RTE comprising of a main yard stable complex of 40 boxes, a secondary stable block of 20 boxes, an isolation yard, a trainer and assistant trainers house, stable staff accommodation, horse walkers, muck pits, a therapy barn, trotting ring and outdoor school, a lunge ring, turnout paddocks and a machinery store and storage barn and enabling residential development comprising 46 apartments. [Description amended to reflect reduction in 1 apartment (47 to 46)

Recommendation

At Planning Committee on 17 September Members resolved to grant conditional permission and refer to the Secretary of State (SoS) for determination and subject to the completion of a Section 106 Agreement, for the redevelopment of the South Hatch Stables site.

The Committee was advised that the Secretary of State (SoS) was seeking an extension beyond the prescribed 21 days to make a decision on the referral.  In response the Local Planning Authority agreed not to issue planning permission until the SoS had determined the matter.  The length of the extension was not known but it was anticipated that it would extend beyond the date for the General Election i.e. 12 December.

The Committee was apprised on the drafting of the legal agreement, and was advised that the S106 had been updated to secure the following:

·                 Reptile translocation site and Management Plan

·                 Delivery of the enabling housing development in accordance with the approved phasing plan

·                 Securing the trainer and stable hand accommodation in perpetuity

·                 Community mini bus

·                 Travel Plan with monitoring fee

·                 A mechanism to review the viability of the development if Phase 4 of the residential scheme has not reached slab level within two years of consent being granted.

·                 A “claw back” clause to ensure that the Council is paid the equivalent value of the cost of the affordable housing provision, if the applicant/ owner sold the stables in part or as a whole, within a 15 year period from completion of the enabling residential development.

As the original deadline to complete the Section 106 agreement had passed the Committee agreed to delegate to the Head of Planning the determination of the application to be signed three months from the date of the final determination by the SoS.  It was noted that should the matter be called in the application would be considered at a public enquiry.