Agenda item

To consider the above planning application.

Note: Councillor M Mackenzie (on behalf of Cranage Parish Council), Mr M Hodge (objector) and Mr J Ashall (agent on behalf of the applicant) attended the meeting and addressed the Committee on this matter.  Ms D Madden (objector) had registered her intention to address the Committee on this matter but did not speak.

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

RESOLVED – That the Head of Planning and Housing be granted delegated authority to APPROVE, subject to additional consultation responses not raising any significant additional issues of concern.

Approval to be subject to the following conditions:

1.                  In accordance with submitted plans

2.                  All fenestration shall be set behind a reveal of 50mm unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

3.                  Notwithstanding the submitted details, Prior to commencement of development, a scheme for the landscaping of the site  shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The landscaping scheme shall include details of hard landscaping, planting plans, written specifications (including cultivation and other operations associated with tree, shrub, hedge or grass establishment), schedules of plants noting species, plant sizes, the proposed numbers and densities and an implementation programme.

4.                  No trees, shrubs or hedges within the site which are shown as being retained on the approved plans shall be felled, uprooted, wilfully damaged or destroyed, cut back in any way or removed without the prior written consent of the Local Planning Authority.  Any trees, shrubs or hedges removed without such consent, or which die or become severely damaged or seriously diseased within five years from the occupation of any building or the development hereby permitted being brought into use shall be replaced with trees, shrubs or hedge plants of similar size and species until the Local Planning Authority gives written consent to any variation.

5.                  (a)  Prior to the commencement of development or other operations being undertaken  on site a scheme  for the protection of the retained trees produced in accordance with BS5837 (Trees in Relation to Construction 2005: Recommendations), which provides for the retention and protection of trees, shrubs and hedges growing on or adjacent to the site, including trees which are the subject of a Tree Preservation Order currently in force, shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  No development or other operations shall take place except in complete accordance with the approved protection scheme.

(b)  No operations shall  be undertaken on site in connection with the development hereby approved (including any tree felling, tree pruning, demolition works, soil moving, temporary access construction and / or widening or any operations involving the use of motorised vehicles or construction machinery) until the protection works required by the approved protection scheme are in place.

(c) No excavations for services, storage of materials or machinery, parking of vehicles, deposit or excavation of soil or rubble, lighting of fires or disposal of liquids shall take place within any area designated as being fenced off or otherwise protected in the approved protection scheme.

(d)  Protective fencing shall be retained intact for the full duration of the development hereby approved and shall not be removed or repositioned without the prior written approval of the Local Planning Authority.

6.                  Prior to the commencement of development or other operations being undertaken on site in connection with the development hereby approved (including any tree felling, tree pruning, demolition works, soil moving, temporary access construction and / or widening, or any operations involving the use of motorised vehicles or construction machinery) a detailed Construction Specification / Method Statement for no-dig construction techniques and permeable surfaces within the rooting area of the Oak tree to the north east of the site shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  This shall provide for the long term retention of the tree.  No development or other operations shall take place except in complete accordance with the approved Construction Specification / Method Statement.

7.                  Notwithstanding the provisions of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995 (or as may subsequently be amended or re-enacted) no extensions, alterations or buildings within the site curtilage normally permitted by Class F of Part 1 Schedule 2 to that Order shall be carried out unless a further planning permission has first been granted on application to the Local Planning Authority.

8. Prior to commencement of development, details of a facility which will allow vehicles to enter and leave the site in a forward direction shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  The approved scheme shall be implemented to the satisfaction of the Local Planning Authority, before first occupation of the development hereby permitted and the facility shall then be retained, kept clear and be available for use at all times thereafter.

9. Prior to commencement of development, details of a service strip scheme for the hereby approved development shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The approved scheme shall then be implemented prior to the first occupation of the development hereby approved retained thereafter.

10. Scheme for the future maintenance and protection of the amenity Greenspace.

Informative

The application to carry an informative requiring entry into a Section 38 Agreement under the Highways Act 1980 to cater for the formal adoption of the adoptable road.