Agenda item

To consider the above planning application.

Note: Mr C Cunio (agent for the applicant) attended the meeting and addressed the Committee on this matter.     

The Committee considered a report (together with an oral update on the site visit) regarding the above planning application.

RESOLVED

That the application be approved subject to the signing of a Deed of Variation to the Section 106 Agreement, changing the affordable housing provision from eight 2 bed houses and four 2 bed apartments, to twelve 2 bed houses, and subject to the following conditions:

1. Development carried out in complete accordance with the approved plans
2. Notwithstanding the details shown on the approved plans, prior to commencement of development a revised and fully detailed scheme for the landscaping of the site, shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  The scheme shall make adjustments to the planting to account for revisions to the highway service strips. The scheme shall include details of hard landscaping, planting plans, written specifications (including cultivation and other operations, such as cutting regimes, associated with tree, shrub, hedge, grass and wildflower meadow establishment) schedules of plants noting species, plant sizes, proposed numbers and densities.  The details shall comply with the schedule of works itemised in the Landscape Management Plan submitted with the application dated July 2010.
3. The landscaping shall be carried out in complete accordance with the approved scheme, unless any variation is first agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority.
4. Prior to the commencement of development, a revised layout scheme shall be submitted to the Local Planning Authority for approval in writing.  The revised layout shall in include service strips that extend fully around the perimeter of all three cul-de-sacs.  The development shall be carried out in complete accordance with the approved details.
5. The bat and bird boxes, as detailed in the Specification of Provisions for Bats and Birds. Bird nest boxes, bat boxes/ bat bricks to be provided on dwellings shall be installed at the time of construction of the dwellings and retained thereafter. Bird boxes to be installed in the wildlife area shall be installed in accordance with a timetable which shall be submitted and agreed before development commences.
6. Notwithstanding the details shown on the proposed fencing layout, all rear garden areas shall be provided with 1.8m high, privacy panel fencing (or similar), details of which will be submitted for written approval.  The fencing shall be installed prior to the first occupation of the dwellings to which it relates.
7. Prior to the occupation of the first dwelling, the six parking spaces to Zan Drive shall be laid out and available for use. The parking shall thereafter be retained as car parking for residents in Zan Drive and their visitors.
8. Notwithstanding the details shown on the approved plans, a scheme for buffer planting on the boundary of Plot 35 and number 7, Zan Drive, has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  The planting scheme shall be completed in complete accordance with the approved details unless any variation is approved in writing.

       9. Removal of permitted development rights to plots 1 to 4 inclusive, 8 to  11 inclusive and 38 to 41 inclusive.