Agenda item

To consider the report of the Director of Service Delivery (copy enclosed, Members’ Update to be circulated)*.

A Members’ Update had been circulated prior to the meeting that detailed an amendment to the plans referenced in condition 2.

Following the Officer’s presentation, the Chairman opened the debate on the application. Councillor Stamp said it was great that boat building trades and associated services were being revived and she wholeheartedly supported the application. Councillor Channer echoed this and added that it presented an opportunity for young people to gain skills and provided employment, so she supported the application.

The Chairman moved the Officer’s recommendation to approve the application subject to conditions. This was seconded by Councillor Stamp.

The Chairman put the Officer’s recommendation to the Committee and it was agreed by assent

RESOLVED that the application be APPROVED subject to the following conditions:

1.    The development hereby permitted shall begin no later than three years from the date of this decision.

REASON To comply with Section 91(1) of The Town & Country Planning Act 1990 as amended by Section 51 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004.

2     The proposed development shall be carried out in complete accordance with the following plans and drawings: TMA/882/P10 B, TMA/882/P15, TMA/882/P21 B, TMA/882/P25, TMA/882/P30, TMA/882/P31, TMA/882/P22, TMA/882/P20 Rev A, TMA/882/23, Planning Statement, Economic Statement.

REASON To ensure the development is carried out as approved.

3     Prior to their use in the development hereby approved, written details and samples and/or high-quality photographs of the external materials to be used in the development shall be submitted to and approved by the local planning authority. The development shall be carried out in accordance with the details as approved.

REASON To protect the amenity of the area, in accordance with policies S8 and D1 of the LDP.

4     The development hereby approved shall only be used for a B2 General Industrial use, specifically related to the marine industry.

REASON To ensure the appropriate use of the site and to protect the amenity of the surrounding area, in accordance with policies S8 and D1 of the LDP.

5     Prior to the first use of the development hereby approved, 30 car parking spaces, measuring 2.9m wide by 5.5m deep in accordance with the Maldon District Vehicle Parking Standards, shall be laid out within the site, to the north of the building hereby approved. These spaces shall remain as such in perpetuity.

REASON To ensure appropriate parking is provided at the site, in accordance with policy D1 and T2 of the LDP.

6     The use hereby permitted shall only be undertaken between 07:00 hours and 19:00 hours on weekdays and on Saturdays and not at any time on Sundays and Public Holidays.

REASON To protect the amenity of the area and neighbouring sites, in accordance with policies D1 and H4 of the LDP.

7     Deliveries to and collections from the site shall only be undertaken between 06:30 hours and 19:30 hours on weekdays and on Saturdays and not at any time on Sundays and Public Holidays.

REASON To protect the amenity of the area and neighbouring sites, in accordance with policies D1 and H4 of the LDP.

8     No goods, materials, plant, machinery, skips, containers, packaging or other similar items shall be stored or kept outside of the building.

REASON To protect the amenity of the area, in accordance with policies S8 and D1 of the LDP.

9     No floodlighting or other external form of illumination of the site shall be undertaken without the express consent of the local planning authority.

REASON To protect the amenity of the area, in accordance with policies S8 and D1 of the LDP.

10   Full details of both hard and soft landscape works shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority prior to any works occurring above ground level at the application site. These details shall include, for example:

i.     Proposes finished levels contours;

ii.    Means of enclosure;

iii.  Car parking layouts;

iv.   Other vehicle and pedestrian access and circulation areas;

v.    Hard surfacing materials;

vi.   Minor artefacts and structures (e.g furniture, play equipment, refuse or other storage units, signs, lighting);

vii.  Proposed and existing functional services above and below ground (e.g drainage power, communications cables, pipelines etc,  indicating lines, manholes, supports);

viii.Retained historic landscape features and proposals for restoration, where relevant.

The soft landscape works shall be carried out as approved within the first available planting season (October to March inclusive) following the occupation of any part of the development hereby approved unless otherwise agreed in writing by the local planning authority. If within a period of five years from the date of the planting of any tree or plant, or any tree or plant planted in its replacement, is removed, uprooted, destroyed, dies, or becomes, in the opinion of the local planning authority, seriously damaged or defective, another tree or plant of the same species and size as that originally planted shall be planted in the same place, unless the local planning authority gives its written consent to any variation.

REASON To protect the amenity of the area, in accordance with policies S8 and D1 of the LDP.

11   No development shall take place, including any works of demolition, until a Construction Method Statement has been submitted to, and approved in writing by, the local planning authority. The approved Statement shall be adhered to throughout the construction period. The Statement shall provide for:

•      The parking of vehicles of site operatives and visitors

•      Loading and unloading of plant and materials

•      Storage of plant and materials used in constructing the development

•      The erection and maintenance of security hoarding including decorative displays and facilities for public viewing, where appropriate

•      Wheel washing facilities

•      Measures to control the emission of dust and dirt during construction

•      A scheme for recycling/disposing of waste resulting from demolition and construction works

REASON In the interests of the amenity of the area, in accordance with policies S8 and D1 of the LDP.

12   Prior to works above ground level, full details of the surface water drainage and foul drainage scheme to serve the development shall be submitted to and approved by the local planning authority for approval. The development shall be carried out as approved and retained and such thereafter. 

REASON In the interests of appropriate drainage and protection from pollution, in accordance with policy D2 of the LDP.

13   Prior to the first use of the development hereby approved, a scheme for the management of recycling and waste to serve the development, including bin storage areas, shall be submitted to approved by the local planning authority. The development shall be carried out in accordance with the details as approved and retained as such thereafter. 

REASON To protect the amenity of the area, in accordance with policies S8 and D1 of the LDP.

14   No machinery shall be operated and no process shall be undertaken outside of the building hereby approved.

REASON To protect the amenity of the area, in accordance with policies S8 and D1 of the LDP.