Land South East Of The Shoulder Of Mutton
Background
On March 11th 2016 NCC gave outline approval for a development of up to 55 dwellings on Land South East Of The Shoulder Of Mutton "with all matters reserved".
That was a decision on the general principles of how the site can be developed.
The Decision Notice contained 25 conditions, the 1st of which was:
Application for the approval of all reserved matters including Access, Layout, Appearance (including sample materials), Scale and Landscaping shall be made to
the Local Planning Authority before the expiration of three years from the date of this permission.
(See application 14/03839/OUT on NCC's Public Access system for full details)
Current Application
NCC have now validated an application for approval of all reserved matters.
The application can be viewed on NCC's Public Access system - search for 19/00790/REM
A key document is the 'Design & Access Statement with Heritage Statement'.
The Design & Access Statement with Heritage Statement is shown in 6 parts on Public Access - view it as one document here.
The Floor Plans and Elevations of the 11 houses types are shown in 22 documents on Public Access - view them as one document here.
The Site Plans that are shown on Public Access (in the Map tap, PDFs or Design & Access Statement with Heritage Statement) can be viewed as one document here.
Summary of the Application
The application is for 55 dwellings (8 2-bed-bungalows, 6 2-bed-houses, 2 3-bed-houses, 32 4-bed-houses and 7 5-bed-houses).
All the houses will be 2 storeys.
The bungalows will be north of the site adjacent to the boundary with the existing village.
There will be a 7m wide area of Village Green adjacent to the full length of the northern site boundary.
Note that the documentation refers to several other areas as being 'village green' but these other areas will not be registered as Village Green.
A new public footpath will start at the north west corner of the site outside the Shoulder of Mutton so villagers can go through the new estate to the bus stop by the entrance to Old Church Wood.
The site access will be in the south west of the site.
There will be three lanes to allow cars travelling north to wait in the middle lane to turn into the new estate.
There will be a pedestrian refuge on the north side of the access point.
The site access in the original outline application was at the north west of the site but, following comments from residents and the Parish Council, and with the agreement of NCC's Highways Development Management team, it was moved to the south west before the outline application was approved.
Site layouts compared
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Site layout overview
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Site access
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Commenting on the Application
If you want to comment on this application you can do so by Monday April 1st 2019:
online - go to the Public Access system and search for 19/00790/REM
by post - Central Registry Team, Development Management, NCC Planning Department, County Hall, Morpeth NE61 2EF
by email - planningcomments@northumberland.gov.uk
If you comment by post or by email, you must include the planning application reference number (19/00790/REM), your name, full postal address and contact details (email address or phone number).
Please bear in mind that comments should only relate to the reserved matters - access, layout, appearance, scale and landscaping.
Longhorsley Parish Council have submitted their comments about the application.
They have objected to three aspects of the application but say they believe that all can be resolved by further work on the issues and thus should be able to be withdrawn.
In summary the objections are:
• the application does not provide a safe pedestrian connection to the main village
• stone or stone cladding is needed where the new buildings are part of the street scene that already includes this
• the application makes no provision for children friendly play areas
The Parish Council have also raised other concerns including
• the 1800mm close board fence along the A697 will be unsightly
• the application does not identify the 16 affordable houses
• future responsibility for roads and footpaths needs to be specified
See the full comment on Public Access and here.
Revised Flood Risk & Drainage Assessment
A new Flood Risk & Drainage Assessment was added to Public Access on January 13th.
This replaces the original Flood Risk & Drainage Assessment from March 5th 2019.
The new report proposes the construction of a drainage basin to the east of the site designed to provide storage for a 1 in 100-year + 40% CC flood event.
There is an existing burn which runs along the southern boundary of the application site and drainage basin.
The proposal is to discharge the surface water flows from the development and drainage basin into this burn at a restricted rate.
The basin will receive the run-off through a single outfall headwall and outfall at a reduced rate via a new headwall into an existing watercourse leading to
Paxtondean Burn.
See the full report here
The construction of this attenuation basin is covered by a new Planning Application - 20/00107/FUL - Creation of an attenuation basin associated with planning application 19/00790/REM