Agenda item

15/5369C Somerford Booths Hall, Chelford Road, Somerford CW12 2LY: Full planning application proposing the conversion of the Grade II* listed hall from offices to residential and demolition of the existing buildings and the erection of a residential development set in attractive landscaping and open space with associated access and car parking arrangements for P Hogarth

To consider the above planning application.

Minutes:

Note: The Principal Planning Officer drew Committee Members’ attention to the written update, which set out the Inspector’s views on the further modifications needed to the Cheshire East Local Plan Strategy.  The Inspector’s recommendations meant that more weight could be attributed to the emerging policies of the Cheshire East Local Plan Strategy and housing supply policies which were deemed out of date by the absence of a 5 year supply.

 

The Committee considered a report regarding the above planning application, a written update and an oral report of the site inspection.

 

RESOLVED

 

(a)          That, for the reasons set out in the report and the written update, the application be APPROVED subject to referral to the University of Manchester to notify them of the Council’s intended decision, the completion of a s106 legal agreement to secure Public Open Space and its future maintenance and management by a management company comprising of:

 

·                     1100 square metres of onsite new Amenity Greenspace (AGS) (or otherwise agreed)

·                     Onsite Local Area for Play (LAP) with a minimum of 100 square metres

 

and the following conditions:

 

1.    Standard Time Limit (3 Years)

2.    Accordance with approved and amended plans

3.    Submission of materials

4.    No alterations to original roof structure

5.    Rainwater goods to be cast metal

6.    Sample panel of lime render to be submitted

7.    Detailed drawings of windows and doors

8.    Doors and windows to be timber and painted

9.    Any decorative treatment of rendered surfaces of the Hall shall be agreed with the LPA before works commence

10. Any repairs to garden wall to be agreed prior to works commencing

11. Detailed schedule of works to listed building to submitted

12. Programme of archaeological work to be submitted

13. Detailed scheme / schedule of works to the listed hall

14. Structural survey to be submitted

15. Rooflights to be conservation style

16. Removal of permitted development rights for gates, walls, fences, extensions and outbuildings

17. Full restoration of the hall to be carried out before first occupation of 50% of the proposed dwellings

18. The proposed development to proceed in accordance with the recommendations made within submitted ecological assessments including bat mitigation and great crested newt mitigation

19. Prior to any commencement of works between 1st March and 31st August in any year, a detailed survey is to be undertaken for nesting birds

20. Detailed proposals for the incorporation of features into the scheme suitably for use by breeding birds including house sparrow. 

21. Updated badger survey to be submitted

22. Habitat Management and Landscape Management Plan to be submitted including long-term design objectives, management responsibilities and maintenance schedules for all areas that are not within residential curtilages. To include removal of Rhododendron

23. Tree protection

24. Implementation of Tree protection

25.Updated Arboricultural Method Statement to be submitted for removal of existing hard standing

26. Landscaping scheme to be submitted

27. Implementation of landscaping

28. Details of boundary treatments to be submitted

29. Specification details for any areas of hard surfacing within tree root protection zones (to be no dig construction).

30. Accordance with submitted flood risk assessment

31. Details of levels to be submitted

32. Scheme of electromagnetic screening measures to be incorporated into new build dwellings

33. Scheme of Public Open Space to be submitted including the provision of 1100 square metres of Amenity Greenspace (AGS) and the provision of a Local Area for Play (LAP)

34. Site to be drained on a separate system with foul water draining to the public sewer and surface water draining in the most sustainable way.

35. Contaminated land report to be submitted

36. Scheme for pile foundations to be submitted (if required)

37. Scheme for dust control during demolition / construction to be submitted

38. Construction Management Plan to be submitted

39. Electric vehicle infrastructure to be installed in each new build property

 

(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 Head of Planning (Regulation) 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.

 

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