Up to 95 homes at Land At Village Farm, 85 Cotton End Road, Wilstead, Bedford

“24/02231/MAO RECOMMENDATION: Permit subject to a Planning Obligation FORMERLY DEFERRED FOR SITE INSPECTION Pages (80-119) Land At Village Farm 85 Cotton End Road Wilstead Bedford Bedfordshire MK45 3DB”

“Outline application for the demolition of existing buildings and erection of up to 95 residential dwellings (including affordable housing), public open space (including play space) and associated drainage, landscaping, internal roads, utilities and other service infrastructure. All matters are reserved except means of access.”

“The Principal Planning Officer provided an update as follows:”

“Anglian Water had submitted an objection to the application however, Officers were of the opinion that the requested preoccupation condition should not be imposed.”

“There were changes to Conditions 7, 9 and 10 in the report, excluding demolition from the definition of the development.”

“There was an amended Condition 2 with new phasing conditions being proposed.”

“That permission be granted in respect of the above application in accordance with the recommendation of the Head of Planning and Building Control with a revised Condition 2 and a Condition 31.”

“No development shall take place (except demolition works related to the buildings shown on approved drawing no. SM5111-EN-019 (Council plan ref: V35)), until details of the following matters (in respect of which approval is expressly reserved) have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority: (1) the external appearance of the development; (2) the landscaping of the site; (3) the layout of the development; (4) the scale of the development.”

“1st phase – Demolition of existing buildings within the yellow hatched area, 2nd phase – Main access road and infrastructure works shown in blue, 3rd phase - Residential development and associated infrastructure shown in pink, 4th phase - Residential development and associated infrastructure shown in green.”