New Community Proposals
Janthia Algate
Major Projects Manager
Telephone: (01395) 517586
E-mail: jalgate@eastdevon.gov.uk
The District Council's policies with regard to the New Community proposal are set out in Chapter 12 of the Revised Deposit Local Plan.
The Cranbrook New Community was granted outline planning permission on 19 December 2006. It is expected that the decision notice for Application No. 03/P1900 will be issued once the outstanding matters relating to the Legal Agreement and Strategies have been satisfactorily resolved. The Development Control Committee also requested that a financial contribution towards public art should be negotiated with the developers.
For further information, click here to view the Minutes of the meeting.
Second Amendment to the Original Planning Application for Cranbrook.
In November 2006, The East Devon New Community Partners submitted further amendments to the original planning application for a new community within East Devon, which was submitted in 2003. Documents and plans relating to these amendments can be viewed on the "Cranbrook Second Amendments" page.
A Duplicate Planning Application For Cranbrook.
In August 2005, The East Devon New Community Partners submitted a duplicate planning application for a new community in East Devon to The Council. Further information about this application can be found on the "A Duplicate Planning Application For Cranbrook" page.
Meetings:
A meeting of all Members of the Council took place in the Council Chamber, Knowle, Sidmouth on Monday 16th May 2005 at 2.30pm. The purpose of this meeting was to explain the details of the outline planning application for a new community, and to answer questions from Members. Representatives of the Highways Agency, The Environment Agency and Devon County Council were in attendance. This meeting was not a forum for public debate, or debate of the issues by Members, as it was not a formal meeting of the Development Control Committee.
A Special Meeting of the Development Control Committee was held on Tuesday 17th May at 5.30pm - also in the Council Chamber, Knowle, Sidmouth.- and this is where the application was considered formally.
Members of the public were invited to these meetings, but were not allowed to speak.
Documents relating to these meetings can be viewed using the links below:
 Main Report (364KB - PDF Help) |
Appendix 1 (216KB - PDF Help) |
| Appendix 2 (187KB - PDF Help) |
Appendix 3 (133KB - PDF Help) |
| Appendix 4 (181KB - PDF Help) |
Appendix 5 (560KB - PDF Help) |
| Appendix 6 (462KB - PDF Help) |
Appendix 7 (183KB - PDF Help) |
| Appendix 8 (408KB - PDF Help) |
Appendix 9 (507KB - PDF Help) |
| Appendix 10 - 14 (113KB - PDF Help) |
Development Control Committee Decision:
At the latter of the meetings described above, the Development Control Committee resolved that, subject to a significantly improved affordable housing offer (the current offer being unacceptable), and the resolution of a number of other matters, then the principle of outline planning for a New Community would be acceptable. However, this does not mean that outline planning permission has been formally granted at this time. The unresolved issues need to be resolved, a detailed and extensive legal agreement needs to be drawn up and signed, and various strategies put in place for the future delivery of Cranbrook, the name chosen for the New Community.
You can view the full minutes of the meeting on the 'Committee Papers page' of the web-site.
Once everything is in place, the planning application will return to the Development Control Committee (currently expected to be later in the year) for a final decision. If approved, it will then be referred to the Secretary of State for a judgement on whether he wishes to call the application in for his own decision. If he chooses not to do so, the outline decision notice, accompanied by the Section 106 Agreement, will be issued. The next stage for the applicants would be to submit detail applications, called ‘Approval of Reserved Matters’ submissions (ARMs), for the various parts of Cranbrook. These may be submitted over a number of years, as the project progresses. Only those living in the immediate vicinity of each ARM will be notified of its submission together with the 4 Parish Councils of Rockbeare, Clyst Honiton, Broadclyst and Whimple.
Please be reassured that your representations to us were taken into account, but given the judgement by the Development Control Committee that the New Community proposal complied with the policy provisions of the Development Plan for the area, the application will now proceed to the next stage described above.
