Agenda item

To consider the planning application and recommendations of the Chief Executive (copy enclosed, Members’ Update to be circulated)*.

Following the Officer’s presentation of the report, a question was asked regarding the position of the rooflights.  Officers confirmed that they would be positioned above eye-level.  Officers also confirmed that the property had been moved further away from the boundary and that the new application had overcome concerns regardin the proximity to 17 Barnhall Road.

RESOLVED that this 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 the approved drawings specifically referenced on this decision notice as well as the submitted detailed specifications.

3.         No development shall take place until samples of the materials to be used in the construction of the external surfaces of the development hereby permitted have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  The development shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details.

4.         No works or development shall take place until full details of both hard and soft landscape works to be carried out have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  These details shall include the layout of the hard landscaped areas with the materials and finishes to be used and details of the soft landscape works including schedules of shrubs and trees to be planted, noting the species, stock size, proposed numbers/densities and details of the planting scheme's implementation, aftercare and maintenance programme.  The hard landscape works shall be carried out as approved prior to the beneficial occupation of the development hereby approved unless otherwise first agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  The soft landscape works shall be carried out as approved within the first available planting season (October to March inclusive) following the commencement of the development, unless otherwise first 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.

5.         The development hereby permitted shall not be occupied until such time as the vehicle parking area indicated on the approved plans, including any parking spaces for the mobility impaired, has been hard surfaced, sealed and marked out in parking bays.  The vehicle parking area(s) shall be retained in this form at all times.  The vehicle parking area(s) shall not be used for any purpose other than the parking of vehicles that are related to the use of the approved development unless otherwise agreed with the Local Planning Authority.

6.         Prior to the commencement of the development a 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. 

7.         Notwithstanding the provisions of Part 1 of Schedule 2 of the Town & Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015 (or any Order amending, revoking or re-enacting that Order) no garages, extensions or separate buildings (other than ancillary outbuildings not exceeding 10 cubic metres in volume) shall be erected within the site without planning permission having been obtained from the Local Planning Authority.

8.         Prior to the commencement of the development details of the foul 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.

9.         The first floor rooflights on the north east elevation/roofscape of the dwelling hereby approved on plot 2 shall be fitted in such a manner to ensure that the cill height is a minimum of 1.8 metres above the finished floor level of the rooms that those windows are to serve.