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10.1 VAR/2023/70 - Coleg Menai,Ffordd y Coleg, Llangefni

         VAR/2023/70

10.1 VAR/2023/70 – Application under Section 73A for the variation of condition (16) (Details of the Play Area) of planning permission reference VAR/2022/44 (Hybrid application for engineering centre, car park, children’s play are and outline application for residential dwellings, hotel, food and beverage and car park) so as to allow play area information to be submitted and work to be completed on the play area before the occupation of the 61^st dwelling at Coleg Menai, Ffordd y Coleg, Llangefni

It was resolved to approve the application in accordance with the Officer’s recommendation and report subject to the planning conditions as set out therein.

10.1 VAR/2023/70 – Application under Section 73A for the variation of condition (16) (Details of the Play Area) and (44) (Details of the Play Area) of planning permission reference VAR/2022/44 (Hybrid application for engineering centre, car park, children’s play area and outline application for residential dwellings, hotel, food and beverage and car park) so as to allow play area information to be submitted and work to be completed on the play area before the occupation of the 61^st dwelling at Coleg Menai, Ffordd y Coleg, Llangefni

The application was reported to the Planning and Orders Committee as the original planning application was a departure application subject to the Committee’s approval.

The Planning Development Manager reported that the application is to amend the wording of condition (16) and condition (44) (Details of Play Area) on planning application VAR/2022/44 and provide a financial contribution towards open space. The request to amend the wording of the conditions has been made by Clwyd Alyn to regularise the current breach of conditions (16) and (44) of planning permission VAR/2022/44 as it is unable to comply with them because of land ownership. In 2017 Coleg Menai was granted hybrid planning permission for the creation of an engineering centre and outline planning for residential development of 153 units and a hotel. A reserved matters permission was granted in 2021 for the site which is the subject of the current application for 60 residential units. In the meantime Coleg Menai sold sites 2 and 3 to Clwyd Alyn for the development of 60 affordable units. However, the children’s play area is on site 1 on land currently owned by Coleg Menai and the 23 residential units planned for this parcel of land have not yet commenced. The children’s play area should have been completed prior to the occupation of the first dwelling on the site which include the affordable residential units on sites 2 and 3 now owned by Clwyd Alyn. Some of the residential dwellings developed by Clwyd Alyn on sites 2 and 3 are already occupied in breach of these conditions. As the children’s play area is on land owned by Coleg Menai, Clwyd Alyn has requested that the wording of the conditions is amended to allow the play area to be completed prior to the occupation of the 61^st dwelling thereby allowing Clwyd Alyn to occupy all 60 affordable dwellings on sites 2 and 3 without breaching conditions (16) and (44). Clwyd Alyn has confirmed that they will provide a financial contribution of £18,164.13 towards the provision of a children’s play area within Llangefni town the contribution having been calculated based on the need resulting from the 60 affordable dwellings developed by Clwyd Alyn on sites 2 and 3. The children’s play area remains a part of the wider scheme on site 1 which is owned by Coleg Menai with the financial contribution applying to the 60 Clwyd Alyn units only. Coleg Menai will be expected to provide information about the other sites  ...  view the full minutes text for item 10