Green light for Sainsbury’s application
Bromsgrove District Council’s Planning
Committee has given the green light to a planning application for a
new Sainsbury’s store on Birmingham Road, Bromsgrove, subject to a
legal agreement being signed.
At the special one-off meeting held at The
Council House on the 28th June 2010, members of the
Planning Committee were minded to approve the application.
The application includes highways
improvements, both along Birmingham Road and The Strand to improve
vehicular and pedestrian access to the site, improvements to the
Stourbridge Road/Birmingham Road/Stratford Road/Market Street
junction, together with a programme of landscape and tree planting
within and outside the site.
The committee recommended that delegated
powers be granted to the Head of Planning and Regeneration to
determine the application and issue full planning permission
following the satisfactory completion of a Section 106 Agreement
for financial contributions for public realm improvements,
sustainable transport objectives, walking and cycling schemes in
Bromsgrove and air quality monitoring as follows:
(a) £347,850 towards Bromsgrove
Town Centre public realm improvement measures
(b) £100,00 towards sustainable
transport objectives
(c) £50,000 towards walking and
cycling schemes in Bromsgrove
(d) £10,000 towards air quality
monitoring on Birmingham Road, Bromsgrove
The committee also requested that prior to the
issue of planning permission officers enter into further
discussions with the applicant in relation to deliveries to the
site, taxi accessibility and a phasing timetable for the intended
highway improvements.
Chairman of the Planning Committee Cllr Ted
Tibby said: “I am more than pleased that the Committee has accepted
this application having discussed it at great length.
“This scheme is reflective of the Council’s
objectives of Regeneration, Improvement, One Community and
Environment.
“Although we still have a lot of paperwork to
sort out before planning permission is finally granted, this really
is a step in the right direction.”
