Agenda item

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

Following the Officer’s presentation, the Chairman asked Officers to confirm that the application wasn’t for an ancillary to the mobile home already situated at The Hawthorns and that it would be a separate unit of accommodation. The Development Management Team Leader (Senior Specialist Coordinator) confirmed that the application was for a separate self-contained dwelling. The Chairman then opened the discussion.

A brief debate ensued around the conditions in the report and members sought clarity if the application was for a separate or ancillary dwelling, also how this would add to the current housing stock. Officer’s reassured Members that the application was for a separate self-contained dwelling and made Members aware that the unit would add to the housing stock by being a place for a family to live.

Council A S Fluker proposed that the application be approved in accordance with the Officers’ recommendation and this was seconded. The Chairman put the proposal to the Committee and it was agreed.

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

1                 The development hereby permitted shall be begun before the expiration of three years from the date of this permission.

2                 The development hereby permitted shall be carried out in complete accordance with approved drawings: JJA/2102 Site location plan; 2102/04 Block plan & site layout plan; Covering letter from agent; Ecological Walkover Report by James Blake Associates dated 2022.

3                 A scheme of mitigation and enhancement measures and/or works for biodiversity shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority. The scheme of mitigation and enhancement measures and/or works for biodiversity shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details prior to first occupation of the mobile home hereby permitted to be stationed at the site and retained in perpetuity.

4                 The mobile home hereby permitted to be stationed on the site shall not be occupied at any time other than for purposes ancillary to the residential use of the dwelling known as The Hawthorns. The site shall not be occupied by a person other than the son or daughter-in-law of Mr Michael Pilkington (senior) or any resident dependent of the son or daughter-in-law of Mr Michael Pilkington (senior).

5                 Other than the mobile home hereby permitted to the stationed at the site, no caravan, as defined in the Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 and the Caravan Sites Act 1968 as amended shall be stationed on the site at any time.

6                 No vehicle over 3.5 tonnes shall be stationed, parked or stored at the site.

7                 No commercial activity shall take place on the land, including the storage of materials.

8                 Prior to the commencement of the development details of the surface water drainage scheme to serve the development shall be submitted to and agreed in writing by the local planning authority. The agreed scheme shall be implemented prior to the first occupation of the development. The scheme shall ensure that for a minimum: 1) The development should be able to manage water on site for 1 in 100 year events plus 40% climate change allowance. 2) Run-off from a greenfield site for all storm events that have a 100% chance of occurring each year (1 in 1 year event) inclusive of climate change should be no higher than 10/ls and no lower than 1/ls. The rate should be restricted to the 1 in 1 greenfield rate or equivalent greenfield rates with long term storage (minimum rate 1l/s) or 50% betterment of existing run off rates on brownfield sites (provided this does not result in a runoff rate less than greenfield) You are advised that in order to satisfy the soakaway condition the following details will be required:- details of the area to be drained, infiltration rate (as determined by BRE Digest 365), proposed length, width and depth of soakaway, groundwater level and whether it will be rubble filled.

9                 Prior to the commencement of the development details of the foul drainage scheme to serve the development shall have been submitted to and agreed in writing by the local planning authority. The agreed scheme shall be implemented prior to the first occupation of the mobile home hereby permitted to be stationed on the site.