 I'm going to try and share two plans with everybody and hopefully this will work and then I will that's not working is it share that's that work that's working isn't it yep perfect just pause yes now we've got the first plan up thank you thank you so I don't have a powerpoint I don't have a dreaded powerpoint presentation I just have two plans to share with everybody so just to begin with I know just to repeat slightly what Anna has said I know that many of you already know or are aware of a lot of what I'm about to say but this is also for the benefit of those who may not know quite as much information I'll try and keep things easy to understand but if I stray too far into jargon please let me know and I'll try and not do that I've got two plans to share with you this is the first one this first plan of the new town forms part of the district council's guide planning guidance for the site and this guidance was approved by the council in 2018 hope that this plan is relatively simple to follow and it I don't have a bright laser pointer sorry I've just got a hand but this plan shows the broad extent I'm just going to zoom out a little bit it shows the village as well this plan shows the broad extent of of the new town and the broader locations of certain facilities such as shops and schools so the orange circle shows the location of the schools the bigger circle are the secondary schools that one there and that one there the smaller circles show the location of the primary schools there there there and up here and down here and there's also a six form centre proposed down here and a special education needs school as well the orange circles show the commercial zones the town centre the station quarter an area called the banaled quarter and the lake quarter I want to concentrate this evening on updating members of the public on the western half of the new town as this is where activity is currently concentrated and what I've highlighted in it with a thick purple line filled in in the purple fade that is the area where development is currently concentrated that's called phase one key phase one so the ministry of defence have outlined planning permission for the western half of the site and this is for up to 6500 dwellings and associated infrastructure the granting of outline planning permission is where the principle of development is approved the ministry of defence is the applicant but Urban and Civic are the development partners I'll use you and see as short and we're in the civic depending on on on using following the granting of outline planning permission the applicant is then bound by planning conditions and legal clauses the legal clause is known as a section of six agreement and these are designed to ensure that certain things are delivered at certain trigger points and those trigger points relate to the occupation of numbers of dwellings those trigger points could be the first house the hundredth house whichever figure is used as a trigger and those triggers are monitored by the district council and the county council these triggers can relate to the provision of transport infrastructure playing fields playgrounds schools health centers libraries etc and those are all the things that are to be delivered at certain times throughout the life of the development what is important to know is that these triggers do not relate to commercial facilities such as shops or offices one and one of the first things that the developer did once outline planning permission was granted was to apply for the approval of the various planning conditions that related to the outline planning permission and these conditions required the applicant to provide certain additional information to the district council to be approved before development could start these conditions included for example agreeing a plan for construction traffic to avoid the village including where and when such traffic would go so those that are familiar with the area construction traffic currently access to the site from denien road put this route and then also access is the site from the roundabout near to the research park they also included agreeing a plan for surface water and far water drainage and once these pre commencement conditions were met then this enabled development to begin development of a size of this size is usually split into phases and for the mod part of the development the first phase has been identified as containing up to 1600 dwellings and that's the phase that i've highlighted in purple there is no definition of how many phases there will be and how big a phase can be also phases can overlap so so the last dwelling of phase one does not have to be finished before the second phase starts but this is an issue for the second phase will not be an issue for some time to develop the first phase the applicant has to make further planning applications to the district council these applications are called reserve matters planning applications and these are more detailed applications and they can vary in size and importance the first reserve matters planning application was submitted was for the infrastructure for this area here that that planning application was approved in august 2020 and for the last 18 months or so the delivery of this infrastructure has been is what has been mostly taking place on the site in july of last year i'm just going to move on to another page actually another plan because this might be helpful this plan is the this plan is this area in more detail as an extract from an indicative master plan for your site and what i just want to show you is the first parcel in july last year the first planning application for a residential development parcel was approved a parcel is a name for a development area whether that is for 50 or 100 or whatever figure for a development for houses this first parcel was for 89 dwelling and development has started and this is the parcel that i'm just highlighting with a red marker here so development has started on that side another planning application for 111 houses has also been approved and that's this area here other planning applications will be submitted later this year either for housing or for other facilities that will be required to meet the legal requirements or planning condition requirements let's go back to this plan here it's my last comment to make um the eastern half of the site is a separate planning application um from a company called RLW this application went to planning committee in january of last year with a resolution to approve subject to the signing of the section one of six agreement section one of six agreements is being drafted and will be published in due course that concludes my presentation thank you very much uh mike and i hope that fills in some introductory detail for um people who may not be so familiar with the project as as others are so um are there any questions Sharon so there's only one question in there questions and answers box at the moment so mike um i'll ask this to you but i appreciate you may need some support from matt clark representing RLW and i know we've also got Paul van der Belcom there um call from um GCP so um those may want to chip in as well so mike to you first um from Nigel C marks interesting to see the train station mentioned when is the train station opening so the in terms of the in terms of the train station members of the public might be aware that when the eastern half of the development went to planning committee back in january of last year there was a condition that was attached to the resolution and that condition required that by the first home to be occupied on the eastern half of the development um the railway station needed to be open up and running so in the same way that i said earlier on that trigger triggers tend to reflect occupations on numbers of houses rather than dates the trigger is the first occupation of that of the first dwelling on the eastern half of the development it's not a date it's a trigger so that means it's more that that gives greater power in a way from the authority to say it has to be delivered by them thanks mike that's very useful um so we've got another question this time to do with construction access so from david test can you comment on the construction of a further construction access to the north of the research bend about so um a planning application was approved last year for a main construction access just where my pointer is and this is planned to take construction away if if you remember i said before that the construction access where one of the main construction accesses comes through here but eventually all of this area will be developed for housing and what we don't want is construction access going through this area in the same way they would all want construction access going through the village so by putting a construction access to the north of the site that that preserves the opportunity to have no construction access going through this development as it as it's built out and urban civic will be able to to maybe to talk about that a bit more in there in their presentation thanks mike so next question from andrew cotton has and we're back to the railway station has the funding for the railway station been resolved then and again um conscious that you may need some support from paul and matt on this update yeah i think it might um i mean the section one of six agreement or the section one six drafting for the rlwg application is currently being drafted and this is an issue in that section one six agreement the gcp have been involved in in that process as well i don't know if paul wants to add anything or whether matt wants to add anything at this point hi it's paul here so no i don't really have anything to add my my understanding is that the discussions between the transport director of the gcp and rlwg of ongoing regarding delivery of the station but it would be interesting to see if matt has anything to say um hi yeah so i can you hear me yep yes we can um yeah no i haven't got a great deal to answer that to be honest with you i mean i think mike captured it you know it's it's ongoing discussions in the context of the um of the section one oh six agreement really thanks and a related question from nigel c marks railway station is the gcp planning funding of 10 million pounds or more i couldn't answer that i think that's one for paul here yeah as i as i approve of this he said there's no the plans haven't really resolved yet and the gcp is in discussion with rlwg so there's nothing i can't answer that question okay um i think that's as much as we can do in terms of the update on the funding of the station um councillor bradden a mime aware we've got a couple of participants with ways and oh thank you thank you sharon okay so let me just have a look right okay so um cate grant then would you like to ask your question is cate being unmuted so she can ask her question uh yes cate if um oh there is a button is that that can you hear me now that's fantastic um i think we all know after the covid crisis except for that people need green space and although there is green space within the development it is really rather streamed out and on the edge and in particular it rather seems as if all the sports grounds and big areas are going to be around the schools we were told that we're going to be um playing fields etc at south park so it doesn't seem to be much space for a significant recreation ground that isn't part of a school which often has constraints on when it's open because many schools do not open during the holidays so um would that be for mic huntington or would it be for urban and civic i i think it might be one for urban civic other than to say where it says south park my understanding is there's going to be a cricket there at least but that'd be i think maybe caroline or rebecca might be the best place to to to talk about that thank you i can't see any other hands raised councillor brad num at this moment but you've got a couple more questions in the q&a box so i'm going back to those so from jane williams what stage of negotiations are rlw acts with network rail to enable the station to be built so i think that's one for matt clock yeah hi um yeah i mean it's the the scheme's been progressing through the um to grip process and i think it's reached script 3b i'm not aware of it progressing further than that but then as mike touched on earlier you know that the process of actually commencing development of the station will will follow in due course and so yeah i've got no update on on the grip sign-off process beyond that okay thank you for that um and then from david test how will the construction of the additional construction access fit in with the improvements to the 810 which is being planned by the joint authority i don't know if um if you can have an initial stab at responding to that mike well um what i can say is if if there is a lot of change to the 810 in that particular corridor um where the research park is then there would have to be a whole world designed in but we don't actually know where the 810 i mean it's difficult to know when the 810 works are going to happen there's no there's no time frame for the 810 works to take place thank you mike and i'm very conscious that um we need to move on to the next item so what we will do is we will come back to the remaining questions in the chat box at the end of the next item we'll have time to respond to these during the course of the meeting