Agenda and minutes

Any information received after the agenda has been published, relevant to the Applications on the agenda to be considered by the Committee, will be published here.

          Apologies for absence were received from Councillor Stokes and Councillor Martin.

Councillor Winslade was in attendance as substitute.

There were no declarations of intention from any Member of the Committee to make representation as Ward Councillor on any item within the agenda. 

The application site was approximately 3.9 hectares in size and was used as community playing fields. There was a small area of shrub planting to the north and a foul water pumping station. The remainder was grassed. Football pitches had been laid out, as had a cricket square, although this was not currently in use. The land dropped from the north of the site to the south.

The site was located to the south of Clayburn Road, on the northern side of which there were three storey residential dwellings. There was a vacant plot at the north east end of the road where planning permission had recently been granted for a new autism unit with assisted living accommodation.

Adjoining the site to the east was a vacant parcel of land (originally intended for use as a cemetery) and a shelterbelt. Beyond the shelterbelt was the A15 London Road. At the current time there was no through route from Clayburn Road to the A15 but a new junction, which would also serve the development area of Hampton Leys which lay to the east of the A15, was currently being constructed. 

To the west of the application site was the Hampton Community College, Hampton’s secondary school. The site was comprised of two storey school buildings, car parking (which was accessed from Clayburn Road), landscaping and playing fields. Phase 1 of the school was complete and phase 2 works, which already had consent, were due to commence in the (the phase 2 works would enlarge the school from four forms of entry to seven forms of entry).

To the south was a continuation of the open space with playing pitches laid out and an attenuation pond. Further south, beyond the attenuation pond, were residential properties.

The application was comprised of the following key elements:-

·  The construction of a new two storey building with a maximum height of some 10 metres within which there would be;

·  A new primary school with approximately 420 places;

·  Community facilities comprising of a reception area (accessed separately from the primary school), offices, sports hall, library, changing facilities, a dance studio and a 40 station gym.

·  Provision of informal outdoor soft play and hard play areas;

·  Provision of outdoor sports pitches for the school and community. It was proposed to layout one full size adult football pitch (65 metres x 105 metres), one medium football pitch (45 metres by 75 metres), one mini football pitch (37 metres by 55 metres) and a cricket square (27.44 metres by 27.44 metres);

·  Alterations to the existing car parking access into the adjoining Hampton Community College to create an ‘in’ and ‘out’ and creation of a new vehicular access to the primary school from Clayburn Road;

·  Alterations to the layout of the Hampton Community College car parking area which currently had 86 parking spaces and creation of new additional parking spaces. 186 spaces were proposed to serve the existing college, new primary school and new community facilities;

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