34 affordable homes at Former Boundary Pub Site, Roby, Knowsley

“The accommodation mix is as follows: 14 - 1 bed properties 7 - 2 bed properties 13 - 3 bed properties…”

“The site would be accessed by vehicles and pedestrians from a single point off Pilch Lane. The internal highway would comprise a section of adopted highway together with 4 private drives serving a small number of dwellings with associated car parking areas.”

“The application site comprises 0.72 hectares of vacant previously developed land located to the south of Pilch Lane, Roby. The site formerly comprised the Boundary public house and associated land.”

“The application site is bounded by Pilch Lane to the north (the application site is within Knowsley, however, the road and footpath along Pilch Lane are within Liverpool City Council’s boundary), residential properties to the east, private playing fields (belonging to St Margaret Mary’s Church) to the south and St Margaret Mary’s RC church and primary school to the west of the application site.”

“The site is a brownfield site allocated as a primarily residential area on the Local Plan proposals map and therefore the development of the site for new dwellings is considered to be acceptable in principle.”

“The proposal would be acceptable in terms of impacts on residential amenity, highway safety and capacity, flood risk, drainage, ecology, contaminated land, noise and design and with the appropriate mitigation measures secured through planning conditions and obligations would be in compliance with the relevant local plan, saved UDP policies and guidance in NPPF.”

“Environmental Health (Knowsley Council) – No objections subject to planning conditions securing noise mitigation for the dwellings fronting Pilch Lane, contaminated land and a construction management plan.”

“Local Highway Authority (Knowsley Council) – No objections subject to planning conditions securing the construction of the site access, cycle storage, visitor parking management plan and an indicative extent of any traffic regulation order in association with the site access.”

“(ii) The applicant entering into a legal agreement pursuant to Section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 to financial contributions for the monitoring and implementation of the social value strategy and for enhancements to off site public open space and to secure that a minimum of 10% of the dwellings are secured as affordable housing in perpetuity;”

“(iii) In the event of the applicants not entering into a Section 106 agreement within 6 months of Planning Committee’s resolution to secure the obligations, that Planning Committee delegate authority to the Head of Planning & Building Control to refuse planning permission under delegated powers, on such grounds, should it be deemed that insufficient progress has been made in completing the s106 agreement.”

“(ii) The applicants entering into a legal agreement pursuant to Section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 to secure planning obligations for the following:-”