Decision details

The Committee received an application to discharge Condition 9 for a Strategy for Youth and Play Provision, pursuant to the outline permission 07/0003/OUT approved on December 18th 2013 for mixed use development of up to 1593 dwellings, primary school, community facilities, retail units and transport infrastructure and open space.

In response to Members’ questions the Principal Planner said the following:

       i.          The multi-use game area in the Central Park would be for children and for teenagers.

     ii.          This application specifically concerned facilities for children and teenagers. The central park would provide general facilities for all age groups.

   iii.          Officers had discussed facilities for teenagers that could be provided in the central park. Although a climbing wall had been suggested, this was not practicable. Officers would look at the possibilities of providing one on Darwin Green Two.

   iv.          There were mechanisms in place to ensure that play areas would be provided at appropriate times so they would be available when houses were built. A Phasing Strategy would come to JDCC in June 2014 to set out how delivery would be phased. S106 also had triggers requiring play areas to be in place when a set number of houses were completed.

    v.          Barratts would bring forward larger play areas at the same time as the smaller play areas (as triggered by housing numbers).

   vi.          Officers had not discussed if water themed play facilities would be stocked with anything such as fish.

The Principal Planner undertook to review if water themed play facilities would be stocked with fish etc as part of the central park planning application.

 vii.          P27 of the agenda report pack contained a typographical error stating various facilities would be located on 0.6 hectares of land. This should in fact read 6 hectares of land.

The Committee:

Resolved (by 13 votes with 1 abstention) to discharge condition 9 in respect of 07/0003/OUT with amendment to page 13 of the document to correct the area of Central Park to 6 hectares.