Demolition of 2 no. agricultural buildings. Proposed 4 no. dwellinghouses with garages, landscaping and associated works.

Application deferred.

The planning officer provided a presentation on the application and provided the following verbal update to the committee:

A further email regarding the application had been received which raised 2 points:

On the foul water drainage strategy, the proposal is to lay a discharge pipe from the package treatment plant to the River Lodon to the east. The applicant states that he has the relevant ownership. However, he only has ownership to the culvert / ditch immediately to the east of the site and not to the river tributary itself some further distance away. He cannot discharge into the culvert as this is dry for part of the year and subject to flooding in periods of heavy rain. This needs clarification as I am not sure everyone understands the nature of what is being proposed. Indeed,

I am fairly sure that Land Drainage believe discharge will be into the river and not the culvert whereas the developer is intending to use the culvert.

On the traffic, paragraph 6.60 of your report is technically incorrect.

Traffic from the site cannot turn right through Monkhide as this access is private and restricted with access only being granted to the residents of Monskbury Court itself, the emergency services, and Herefordshire Council's utility services. I believe the owner of LTF Properties (applicant) has a similar right. Furthermore, you will note from the approval of the 7 houses adjacent (192765) that there is a planning condition that residents may only use the access onto the A417 to avoid any increase in traffic on the narrow and twisty road between Monkhide and the A4103. This followed previous concerns of the Highways department in relation to an earlier refused planning application in Monkhide itself. You may wish to make note of this as the condition should also apply to any additional housing as now proposed.

A response to the email had been provided by the agent to the application:

With regards the comments in respect of foul drainage, you will note that the proposal is for the package treatment plant to discharge to the ditch to the east of the site and not to the River Lodon as suggested. This is documented in the submitted ‘Surface Water Management Plan, Flood Risk Assessment and Foul Drainage Strategy: Barns at Monksbury Court Rev. 2’ and has been confirmed as acceptable by the Council land drainage officer. The applicant owns the necessary land and permissions for this without the need to cross any third party land.

Relevant extracts:

‘Broadlands Road is to the East of the site which is a private road and has a ditch on the Eastern side. The ditch is an ordinary watercourse.’ (Foul Drainage Strategy)

‘Treated effluent from the Package Treatment Plant should be discharged to the watercourse. The base of ditch level is approximately 97.36mAOD and the site is 98.87mAOD. Therefore the package treatment plant can drain via gravity to the ditch.’ (Foul Drainage Strategy)

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