Community sports park at Land off Seaton Road, Mountsorrel

“Proposal: Outline application for a cricket pitch, a senior football pitch, public open space and allotments with associated storage building with scoreboard, mixed sports pavilion and community use building (comprising for up to 120sq. m internal floor area for community use) (Sui Generis) and car parking (all matters reserved except for access)”

“The application site is an irregular shaped parcel of land located to the north of Seaton Road, Walters Close and Spencer Drive (new residential development). Figure 1 shows the red line of the site, which is comprised of areas 1 and 2. The site is bounded to the west by Mountsorrel/ Great Central Railway Line.”

“The entire application site is situated within open countryside and outside of the limits to development for Mountsorrel as defined by the adopted Local Plan Policies Map. The site is also located within the Charnwood Forest Landscape Character area (Area 8: Quorn/Mountsorrel/Rothley Settlements, Quarries and Farmland). To the south of the site is the Jelson development of 200 dwellings approved under ref: P/13/1008/2, which has been completed and dwellings occupied.”

“Charnwood Landscape Officer (28/05/2024) No objections subject to conditions: • Landscaping scheme • Landscape management plan • Protection of existing hedgerow and trees…”

“Sport England (30/04/2024 and 05/02/2026) No objections subject to following condition as part of Reserved Matters: An agronomy report which ensures that the pitches are designed in accordance with Sport England’s Natural Turf for Sport Design Guidance Note (2011) and The FA Guide to Floodlighting (2013) (if sports lighting is proposed). 2.”

“(i) authority be given to the Head of Planning and Growth and the Head of Legal and Electoral Service to enter into an agreement under section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 to secure obligations and contributions, on terms to be finalised by the parties, as set out in the report of the Head of Planning and Growth;”

“(ii) subject to the completion of the S106 agreement, that planning permission be granted conditionally, subject to the imposition of the planning conditions and reasons as set out in the report of the Head of Planning and Growth and as amended in the Extras Report, and that the Head of Planning and Growth, in consultation with the Chair of the Plans Committee, be given delegated authority to determine the final detail of the planning conditions and reasons.”