Agenda item

To consider the above planning application.

Note: Councillor P Mason (the Ward Councillor), Mr E Thomas (an objector) and Mr D Tatton, VWB Architects (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.

RESOLVED – That 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. The development hereby approved shall be carried out in total accordance with the approved plans numbered 3452/03C, 3452/04, 3452/05C received by the Local Planning Authority on 3^rd March 2009

3. No development involving the use of any facing or roofing materials shall take place until samples of the materials to be used in the construction of all external surfaces of the development hereby permitted have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  Development shall be carried out in accordance with he approved details

4. Notwithstanding the provisions of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995 (or any order revoking or re-enacting that order), no development (as defined by Section 55 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990) as may otherwise be permitted by virtue of Classes A-E of Part 1 Schedule 2 of the Order shall be carried out

5. Prior to the commencement of development:

- A contaminated land Phase 1 report shall be submitted to, and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority (LPA). 

- Should the Phase 1 report recommend that a Phase 2 investigation is required, a Phase 2 investigation shall be carried out and the results submitted to, and approved in writing by the LPA.

- If the Phase 2 investigations indicate that remediation is necessary, a Remediation Statement including details of the timescale for the work to be undertaken shall be submitted to, and approved in writing by, the LPA.  The remedial scheme in the approved Remediation Statement shall then be carried out in accordance with the submitted details.

- Should remediation be required, a Site Completion Report detailing the conclusions and actions taken at each stage of the works including validation works shall be submitted to, and approved in writing by, the LPA prior to the first use or occupation of any part of the development hereby approved.

6. The hours of construction of the development hereby permitted shall be restricted to 0800 to 1800 hours on Monday to Friday, 0900 to 1300 hours on Saturday, with no work at any other time including Sundays and Public Holidays.

7. The hours of foundation works or other piling on site shall be restricted to 0830 to 1730 hours on Monday to Friday, 0930 to 1230 hours on Saturday, with no work at any other time including Sundays and Public Holidays.

8. The approved development shall not be occupied until the approved accesses that are required for the development have been constructed in accordance with the approved plans and has been formed and graded to the specification of the Local Planning Authority, which is available from the Highway Authority, and the required visibility splays have been provided, all to satisfaction in writing of the Local Planning Authority.

9. 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 proposed finished ground levels or contours, 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.

10. The landscaping plan shall be implemented in full accordance with the approved scheme within the first planting season following completion of the development hereby approved, or in accordance with a programme first agreed in writing with the Local Planning Authority.  Any trees, shrubs or hedges planted in accordance with this condition which are removed, die, become severely damaged or become seriously diseased within five years of planting shall be replaced within the next planting season by trees, shrubs or hedging plants of similar size and species to those originally required to be planted.

11. Prior to commencement of development a plan indicating the positions, design, materials and type of boundary treatment to be erected shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority The boundary treatment shall be completed before the occupation of the dwellings hereby approved and shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details and permanently retained unless otherwise first approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority

12. No development shall commence until an ecological assessment of the potential impacts on the Site of Special Scientific Interest as a result of this development has been carried out, submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  The assessment shall be carried out by a suitably qualified person and shall include mitigation measures for the protection of the Site of Special Scientific Interest.  Any mitigation measures shall be carried out in accordance with an agreed timetable.

13. Notwithstanding the provisions of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995 (or any order revoking or re-enacting that order with or without modification), no windows / dormer windows other than those expressly authorised by this permission shall be constructed.