Agenda item

To consider the above planning application.

Note: Councillor D Newton left the meeting and returned during consideration of this item but after returning did not take part in the debate or vote.

Note: Councillor M Martin left the meeting during consideration of this item.

Note: Parish Councillor C McCubbin (on behalf of Goostrey Parish Council) and Mr J Ashall (on behalf of the applicant) attended the meeting and addressed the Committee on this matter.

The Committee considered a report regarding the above planning application and a written update.

RESOLVED

(a)  That, for the reasons set out in the report, the application be APPROVED subject to completion of a Section 106 legal agreement to secure a commuted sum towards off site affordable housing (the Interim Planning and Place Shaping Manager is granted delegated authority to confirm the amount in consultation with the Chairman of the Southern Planning Committee)

and the following conditions:

1.    Standard time limit 3 years

2.     Approved Plans

3.    Hours of construction limited to 08:00 to 18:00 Monday to Friday, 09:00 – 14:00 Saturday and not at all on Sundays

4.    Pile driving limited to 08:30 to 17:30 Monday to Friday, 09:00 – 13:00 Saturday and not at all on Sundays

5.    Prior to the commencement of development the applicant shall submit a method statement, to be approved by the Local Planning Authority

6.    No development shall take place until a scheme to minimise dust emissions arising from construction activities on the site has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The scheme shall include details of all dust suppression measures and the methods to monitor emissions of dust arising from the development. The construction phase shall be implemented in accordance with the approved scheme, with the approved dust suppression measures being maintained in a fully functional condition for the duration of the construction phase.

7.    Works should commence outside the bird breeding season

8.    Materials to be submitted and approved

9.    Landscaping to be submitted and approved

10. Landscaping scheme to be implemented

11. Remove Permitted Development Rights Classes A-F of Part 1

12. Boundary Treatment details

13. Tree and hedgerow retention

14. Tree Protection to be submitted and approved

15. The parking spaces to be provided on the approved plan should be provided

16. Visibility splays of  2.4.m x 43m in both directions to be provided before development commences and thereafter be retained.

17. Any gates to be erected to be set back by 5.5m from the highway

18. Contribution to off-site affordable housing

(b)  That, in the event of any changes being needed to the wording of the Committee’s decision (such as to delete, vary or add conditions/informatives/planning obligations or reasons for approval/refusal) prior to the decision being issued, the Interim Planning and Place Shaping Manager be granted delegated authority to do so in consultation with the Chairman of the Southern Planning Committee, provided that the changes do not exceed the substantive nature of the Committee’s decision.

(c)  That, should this application be the subject of an appeal, authority be delegated to the Interim Planning and Place Shaping Manager in consultation with the Chairman of the Southern Planning Committee to enter into a planning agreement in accordance with the S106 Town and Country Planning Act to secure the Heads of Terms for a S106 Agreement.