Nine dwellings at Land East Of Hook Road, North Warnborough, Hook

“Application Reference: 23/02095/FUL Address: Land east of Hook Road, North Warnborough Description of Proposal: Erection of 9 dwellings with associated access, parking, affordable housing, public open space, SUDs and landscaping. Applicant: [the applicant] for comments: 20.11.2024 Expiry date: 31.01.2024 Recommendation: GRANT subject to S106 and conditions.”

“Recommendation A That the Development Management Committee delegates power to the Executive Director - Place to GRANT planning permission subject to: 1. the applicant first entering into a section 106 legal agreement in respect of planning obligations detailed below (set out in addendum report), and 2. the planning conditions listed in the Committee report.”

“Recommendation B: In the event that the section 106 legal agreement is not completed within six months of the date of the Committee resolution (or longer period as may be agreed by the Executive Director – Place) planning permission be REFUSED under delegated powers for reasons stated at the end of the Committee report.”

“The applicant has now put forward an offer for the following split of affordable housing, which is acceptable to officers:”

“23/02095/FUL (‘south’ site): 3no. units on the south site (plots 7-9) for social rent…”

“In this instance, owing to the small number of units being offered on the two sites, the applicant has been unable to secure an offer from an RP to take on the management and delivery of the proposed social rent units. The main reason cited for this is that the small number of units to be delivered on a rural site, makes the up- take financially unappealing.”

“Whilst the proposal to use OCC to deliver the social rented units would deviate from the policy definition of ‘affordable housing’ given in the NPPF and reflected in Policy H2 of the HLP32, in its strictest sense, it would still deliver housing benefits to the local community. The policy conflict in this sense would therefore be outweighed by material considerations.”

“(3) the additional conditions recommended in the written addendum (protected species x 2) and additional conditions recommended as part of the debate (maintenance of ditches/open spaces).”

“Recommendation B In the event that the Section 106 legal agreement is not completed within six months of the date of the Committee resolution (or longer period as may be agreed by the Development Manager) planning permission be refused under delegated powers for reasons stated at the end of the Committee report.”

“(1) the applicant first entering into a Section 106 legal agreement in respect of planning obligations detailed, including an affordable housing cascade to include specific reference to OCC in respect of the three social rented units;”

“(1) Financial contribution towards off-site affordable housing (0.8 of a dwelling): £189,537 (2) Financial contribution to Hampshire County Council for education: £110,768 (3) Financial contribution to parish for leisure: £88,000 (4) Financial contribution for the provision of gateway highways signage: £4,000 (5) Financial contribution towards Basingstoke Canal upgrades: £20,358 comprising: a. Upgrades from Swan Bridge to FP16 - £6,004 b.”