Agenda item - 17/01363/FUL - Reconfiguration of existing playing fields to provide new club house and stand, match pitch and floodlights, with three further grass pitches and one all weather pitch, plus associated car parking and landscaping - Land at corner of Redhill Road and Redditch Road, West Heath, Birmingham, B38 9EJ - Mr. R. Thorndike on behalf of Alvechurch FC / The Hayes Sports Partnership

Agenda item

17/01363/FUL - Reconfiguration of existing playing fields to provide new club house and stand, match pitch and floodlights, with three further grass pitches and one all weather pitch, plus associated car parking and landscaping - Land at corner of Redhill Road and Redditch Road, West Heath, Birmingham, B38 9EJ - Mr. R. Thorndike on behalf of Alvechurch FC / The Hayes Sports Partnership

Minutes:

Officers reported on comments received from Sport England, that the proposals were considered to accord with exceptions E2 and E5 of Sport England’s policy and the guidance in Paragraph 74 of the NPPF.  Sport England had raised no objections to the Application subject to the imposition of the conditions, as detailed in the published Update Report. 

 

Officers drew Members’ attention to the additional Conditions 17, 18, 19 and 20, as detailed in the published Update Report, copies of which were provided to Committee Members and the public gallery prior to the commencement of the meeting.

 

Officers further reported that the existing facilities would continue to be used until the new facilities were completed.

 

At the invitation of the Chairman, Mr. J. Jowitt, the Applicant’s Agent, addressed the Committee on behalf of the Applicant.  Councillor C. A. Hotham, Ward Member, also addressed the Committee.  Councillor Hotham commented that he was aware that officers had work tirelessly with the applicants in relation to this planning application.

 

The Committee then considered the Application, which officers had recommended for approval.  Members were in agreement that new facilities were needed and they would congratulate Alvechurch Football Club / The Hayes Sports Partnership.

 

Officers provided clarification on the lighting system and informed the Committee that, as detailed in the report, Worcestershire Regulatory Services had received information relating to the proposed external lighting and that the proposed external lighting was acceptable.  Members further considered the car parking for 145 cars and the proposed changing room facilities. 

 

Having had regard to all of the information presented, the Committee were minded to approve the Application.

 

RESOLVED that authority be delegated to the Head of Planning and Regeneration to GRANT planning permission subject to;

 

1)    the satisfactory completion of a planning obligation (Unilateral Undertaking) to ensure that the shuttle bus arrangements detailed in the Mayer Brown technical note 21/05/2108 Rev A are provided;

 

2)    Conditions 1 to 16, as set out on pages 26 to 29 of the main agenda pack;

 

the following additional Conditions and Informative:

 

Conditions

 

17)      Prior to the first occupation of the development hereby permitted a report must be submitted to the Local Planning Authority which clearly demonstrates that the development has met the BREEAM ‘Very Good’ standard (or a successor equivalent);

 

Reason: In accordance with Policy BDP19 of the Bromsgrove Local Plan.

 

18) No development shall commence until further details of the design and specification of the proposed 3G artificial grass pitch, proposed changing pavilion and associated works have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority after consultation with Sport England.  The AGP shall not be constructed other than in accordance with the approved details.

 

Reason: To ensure that the development is fit for purpose and sustainable. 

 

19) Use of development shall not commence until:

 

(a) certification that the Artificial Grass Pitch hereby permitted has met FIFA Quality Concept for Football Turf – FIFA Quality or equivalent International Artificial Turf Standard (IMS)

 

(b) confirmation that the facility has been registered on the Football Association’s Register of Football Turf Pitches have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

 

Reason: To ensure the development is fit for purpose, sustainable and provides sporting benefits.

 

20) Use of the development shall not commence until a community use

      agreement prepared in consultation with Sport England has been 

      submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority, and

      a copy of the completed approved agreement has been provided to the

      Local Planning Authority.  The agreement shall apply to the proposed 3G

      AGP and associated facilities and include details of pricing policy, sinking 

      fund, hours of use, access by non-football club users, management 

      responsibilities and a mechanism for review.  The development shall not

      be used otherwise than in strict compliance with the approved agreement

 

Reason: To secure well managed safe community access to the sports facility/facilities, to ensure sufficient benefit to the development of sport.

 

Informative

 

1)    The Local Planning Authority have worked with the applicant in a positive and proactive manner to seek solutions to problems arising in relation to dealing with the planning application through negotiation and amendment.

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