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To consider the above planning application.

Note: Having declared his membership of Mill Lane Action Group, Councillor A Kolker exercised his separate speaking rights as a Ward Councillor and withdrew from the meeting during consideration of this item.

Note:Councillor M Nicholls (on behalf of Goostrey Parish Council), Mrs C McCubbin (on behalf of Mill Lane Action Group) and Mr J Ashall (agent 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, a written update, an oral report of the site inspection and an oral update by the Principal Planning Officer.

RESOLVED – That, contrary to the planning officer’s recommendation for refusal, the application be APPROVED subject to the following conditions:

1. The development hereby approved shall commence within three years of the date of this permission.

2. In accordance with plans.

3. This permission relates only to the conversion of the barn indicated on the drawings hereby approved.  It does not grant or convey any consent or permission for any works of demolition, reconstruction, construction or alteration affecting the external appearance of the building, except where such works are indicated in the submitted plans/structural report or are otherwise first approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

4. Prior to commencement of development, all external materials to be submitted and approved.

5. The material and colour of all rainwater goods shall be cast iron, painted black unless otherwise agreed in writing.  The rainwater goods shall be retained thereafter.

6. All fenestration shall be set behind a reveal of 100mm unless otherwise agreed in writing.

7. All windows and doors in the external elevations of the proposed development shall be fabricated in timber and shall be retained in such a form thereafter.  The windows and doors shall be painted in a colour, details of which shall be first approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority and retained thereafter.

8. The roof lights in the development hereby approved shall be set flush with the angle of the surrounding roof slope.  If this cannot be achieved, the degree of projection from the plane of the roof pitch shall be first agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

9. Prior to the commencement of development:

(a)   A contaminated land Phase I report to assess the actual/potential contamination risks at the site shall be submitted to, and approved in writing by, the Local Planning Authority.

(b)   Should the Phase I report recommend that a Phase II investigation is required, a Phase II investigation shall be carried out and the results submitted to, and approved in writing by, the Local Planning Authority.

(c)   Should the Phase II investigations indicate that remediation is necessary, a Remediation Statement shall be submitted to, and approved in writing, by the Local Planning Authority.  The remedial scheme in the approved Remediation Statement shall then be carried out.

(d)   Should remediation be required, a Site Completion Report detailing the conclusions and actions taken at each stage  ...  view the full minutes text for item 190