NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR PLANNING PERMISSION/
PRIOR APPROVAL

Article 15 of The Town & Country Planning
(Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2015

Section 67/73 of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990

Regulation 5 of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Regulations 1990

Application number:
TWC/2021/0401

Former Royal Victoria Hotel, St Marys Street, Newport, Shropshire
I give notice that:
Town Centre Properties Ltd
Is applying to Telford & Wrekin Council for:
Conversion and extension of former hotel into 17no. apartments, including retention of existing façade, associated works and partial demolition (Full Planning Application) ****AMENDED PLANS AND DESCRIPTION****

Members of the public can view the application, plans and other documents submitted online at
https://secure.telford.gov.uk/planning/home.aspx or electronically at Telford & Wrekin Council, Business & Planning First Point, Wellington Civic Offices, Wellington, Telford, TF2 2FH between 8.45am and 4.00pm Monday to Friday when the offices reopen.
Anyone who wishes to make representations about this application should write to the Council before 20/09/2021.
Valerie Hulme
On behalf of Telford & Wrekin Council
23/08/2021

Erection of 301no dwellings with associated access, open space, landscaping and drainage and ancillary infrastructure and ground remodelling.

To view the application summary click the link below

https://secure.telford.gov.uk/planning/pa-applicationsummary.aspx?applicationnumber=TWC/2021/0795

Application Number: TWC/2021/0796 Date Valid: 05/08/2021
Land West of Station Road, Newport, Shropshire
Description: Erection of an extra care facility containing 70no. affordable self-contained apartments (Use Class C2) and associated communal and public facilities with associated access, car parking and landscaping
To view the application click the link below

https://secure.telford.gov.uk/planning/pa-applicationsummary.aspx?applicationnumber=TWC/2021/0796

Details of the application can be best seen in the Planning and Heritage Statement listed in the link below. Cut and paste the link into your search engine:-

https://secure.telford.gov.uk/planning/pa-documents-documents-public.aspx?ApplicationNumber=TWC/2021/0672

Details of the application are in the link below which you can cut and paste to your search engine :-

https://secure.telford.gov.uk/planning/pa-documents-documents-public.aspx?ApplicationNumber=TWC/2021/0610

Details of the plans and consultation in the link below which you can paste into your search engine:-

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https://secure.telford.gov.uk/planning/pa-documents-public.aspx?Applicationnumber=TWC/2021/0419

Link below to the page on the T&W application website that lists the relevant documents in which the consultants acting for the developer make the case for the proposed alterations :-

https://secure.telford.gov.uk/planning/pa-documents-documents-public.aspx?ApplicationNumber=TWC/2021/0401

Prior to the expiry of the consultation period for the above application submitted by Bloor Homes, NDCS submitted the objection below :-

Objection on behalf of Newport and District Civic Society

We refer to the letter dated 03/02/21 from T&WC which was received in mid-February 2021 following an approach by CAPC to T&WC having heard from others that a consultation on the Reserved Matters application had already commenced.

In the time available to us we have reviewed the documents submitted and would draw to the attention of T&WC that only a few of the Reserved Matters have been referenced by number and have evidence submitted by the applicant or its consultants in a manner which we assume is intended to be considered by T&WC as to whether the evidence satisfies the requirements of the relevant individual condition.

The majority of the individua Reserved Matters have not been identified in the documents by relevant individual number and we do not believe that it is the responsibility of council tax payers to trawl through the documents and identify aspects of the documents that might relate to individual conditions. It is for the applicant to submit evidence to each individual condition.

Without prejudice to our position as set out above we comment in general terms on certain aspects of the documents :-

Design and Compliance Statement – Compliance Summary Table

Access and Movement.
The applicant admits that significant changes have been made from what was set out in the plans in the Reserved Matters. Whilst these changes have been made in discussion with the Highways team at T&WC they are of such a nature and magnitude that they are clearly not in accord with the Reserved Matters and must be taken back to the T&WC Plans Board in order that the applicant can provide a full explanation as to why the changes have been made. It is then for the Plans Board to decide if they are prepared to accept the changes or require that the access and movement layout in the Reserved Matters be complied with.

Access and Movement / Layout.
Given the changes to the access and movemen,consequentially the layout of the site has changed fundamentally to that as set out in the Reserved Matters. The substantial non-compliance with the Reserved Matters is again an issue on which the applicant must be required to address with the T&WC Plans Board in order to seek approval or otherwise to the changes.

Landscape.
With the significant departures from the Reserved Matters requiring the need for the applicant to return to Plans Board to explain and seek approval for the departures which, if approved, would require a revised Reserved Matters document to be promulgated by T&WC, the Plans Board would be able to consider the effects of both the T&WC ‘declared climate emergency’ and the recent declaration in the Local Plan 2040 which recently went through its Option review that the borough is a ‘forest community’.
T&WC ecology officers will be well able to draw attention to the evidence from many parties that the ripping out of mature hedgerows, trees etc only to be replaced by new saplings will have a significant negative effect on both climate change for many decades and the diversion of the ROW on the land from the existing routes and green surrounds will gave a negative effect on mental health and wellbeing at a time when with the covid virus lockdown mental health is at an all time low. It was understood from the Local Plan 2040 Local Plan document that mental health and wellbeing is an higher priority for T&WC due to the lockdowns endured since March 2020.

Sustainable Drainage.
The proposals as regards replacing the ephemeral pond with a concrete attenuation basin appear to not accord with the findings in the previous application for a superstore from which a car washing facility with a concrete water capture facility in the location of the ephemeral pond was removed from the application due to serious concerns as to the potential pollution effects on the underground aquifer flowing under the site. In this regard we do not consider that the response to the relevant Reserved Matters adequately addresses the concerns raised in the superstore application.

In summary, due to the significant changes to layout and access and the consequent effects of the these changes on other aspects of the application; the applicant acknowledgement in its own Design and Compliance Statement that it has not been able to comply with the main aspects of the Reserved Matters requirements as the layout and access from the 2015 outline application apparently simply does not work for them to deliver the development of the site which they now wish to take forward; as such, the applicants 2021 application must go to Plans Board for the reasons and for the actions set out above.

Since the submission of the objection we understand that discussions continue between the Council and the developer Bloor Homes. The application is now likely to go before the Planning Committee, possibly in May, following a further round of consultation on amendments to the applicant’s proposals for the site.

Those residents who submitted objections or comments from 2012 onwards in relation to the above application should have received a recent notification from T&W of a Decision that was issued on 2/3/2021. Brief details of the decision are given below and can be accessed from the link :-

Erection for up to 350 no. dwellings (Use Class C3); extra care housing (Use Class C2); 4.5ha of employment land (Use Classes B1, B2 and B8); public open space and landscaping provision including sports pitch and landscaped park; demolition of existing industrial buildings; highway works and associated infrastructure development (Outline to include Access)***AMENDED DESCRIPTION, AMENDED PLANS AND SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS & REVISED ENVIRONMENTAL STATEMENT***

To view the application summary copy and paste the link below into your search engine :-

https://secure.telford.gov.uk/planning/pa-applicationsummary.aspx?applicationnumber=TWC/2011/0871