DRAFT

YAPTON PARISH COUNCIL

PLANNING COMMITTEE

12 August 2003 - At a meeting of the Planning Committee held in Yapton.

Present: Mr Faulkner (Chairman), Mrs Barnes, Mr Fellows, Mr Jones and

Mr Tompsett.

ARUN DISTRICT LOCAL PLAN 2003 : POLICY SITE 6

The Planning Committee had before them and considered the Draft Development Brief and Conceptual Master plans prepared by Arun District Council in connection with the Public Consultation Exercise.

Resolved:

That, recognising the needs of the Hoe Lane residents and the historical significance of retaining the existing characteristics of the ancient hamlet of Flansham must be paramount, representations be made in the strongest possible terms to Arun District Council to ensure that the final planning brief for the new housing development and associated relief road includes the following:

1) that the provision of the Relief Road be undertaken and completed concurrently with Phase 1 of the new housing development to ensure that the adverse impact of the new housing and the increase in traffic together with the potential for gridlock along the existing A259 is avoided;

2) that to keep the noise nuisance from construction work to a minimum, all the landscaping works including the provision of the planned noise buffers zones, landscaped bunds and acoustic barriers along the line of the relief road be completed before the main housing and relief road works take place;

3) that in connection with the landscaping scheme for the relief road the existing trees, shrubs and hedging be retained to the north of the proposed relief road and any artificial buffer zones and barriers be fully screened by the planting of additional natural vegetation;

4) that the proposals for roundabouts to service the new housing development from the relief road be urgently reviewed in favour of junctions with slip roads;

5) that the clustering of the planned social and affordable houses within the new development be kept to a minimum to ensure integration within the community.

CHAIRMAN