Proposal                   Demolition and redevelopment of the Site at Amethyst Lane to deliver a new respite care facility alongside 17 new houses, soft and hard landscaping, parking and ancillary works. 

Recommendation  Change to s106 terms

In accordance with Section 100B (4) (b) of the Local Government Act 1972, the Chair agreed that this Item be considered as a matter of urgency, to avoid delay to the completion of the S106 legal agreement to allow works to commence on site in 2024 in order to provide affordable housing to meet the critical need that exists in the Borough.

Demolition and redevelopment of the Site at Amethyst Lane to deliver a new respite care facility alongside 17 new houses, soft and hard landscaping, parking and ancillary works.

Further to Minute 72 of the meeting held on 6 December 2023, the Committee considered a report on the above application.  The report recommended an amendment to the terms of the proposed s106 agreement for the application, due to an incorrect reference to the proposed tenure of the affordable housing in the report submitted to the meeting on 6 December 2023.

Resolved –

(1)          That the proposed terms of the s106 legal agreement relating to application 230613/REG3 be amended to secure all dwellings as affordable housing, Social Rent tenure, in perpetuity;

(2)          That all other terms of the s106 legal agreement be as agreed at the meeting held on 6 December 2023.

(Councillor Moore declared a pecuniary interest in this item as his partner had carried out the ecological survey on the site. He left the meeting and took no part in the debate or decision).