Agenda item

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

Following her earlier declaration, Councillor Mrs P A Channer, CC left the Chamber for the determination of this item.

In response to a question, the Group Manager for Planning Services confirmed that this application would have come to Committee if it had not been called in as it was a departure from the Local Plan.

Councillor Mrs H E Elliott, a Ward Member, proposed that this application be approved, even though she did not agree with the development of Stoney Hills, as there was little alternative for Members.

In response to another question, the Group Manager for Planning Services advised Members that “windfall” is a dwelling that is granted planning permission but does not form part of the Local Development Plan (LDP).  Furthermore, when considering windfall sites there is a need to demonstrate harm in order to refuse such an application.  Monitoring of such sites is carried out annually by the policy team and they take into account what has been built.

Concern was raised about work taking place on sites within Stoney Hills on Saturday afternoons and on Sundays and Bank Holidays.  However, the Group Manager for Planning Services advised that Government guidance is that was not a planning issue and should be dealt with by Environmental Health who was better placed to deal with such matters.  It was requested that a condition regarding working hours be included.

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

1          Details of the access, appearance, landscaping, layout and scale (hereinafter called “the reserved matters”) shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority before any development begins and the development shall be carried out as approved.

Application for the approval of the reserved matters shall be made to the Local Planning Authority before the expiration of three years from the date of this permission.

The development hereby permitted shall be begun within two years from the date of the final approval of the reserved matters.  The development shall be carried out as approved.

2          The development shall be undertaken in accordance with the terms and specifications contained within the Ecology Report which is attached to and forms part of this permission.

3          No development shall take place until written details or samples of all 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 using the materials and details as approved.

4          As part of the reserved matters details of the siting, height, design and materials of the treatment of all boundaries including gates, fences, walls, railings and piers shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  The screening as approved shall be constructed prior to the first use / occupation of the development to which it relates and be retained as such thereafter.

5          The landscaping details referred to in Condition1 shall provide full details and specifications of both hard and soft landscape works which shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  Such details shall be submitted concurrently with the other reserved matters.  These landscaping details shall include the layout of the hard landscaped areas with the materials and finishes to be used together with details of the means of enclosure, car parking layout, vehicle and pedestrian accesses.

The details of the soft landscape works shall include 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, 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.

6          No equipment, machinery or materials shall be brought to the site for the purposes of the development, until a written statement detailing the retention and protection of trees on the site has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  The submitted statement shall include a survey and assessment of all trees on the site and shall identify on a scaled drawing those trees to be retained and where arboricultural work is proposed.

7          The scheme to be submitted pursuant to the reserved matters shall make provision for car parking within the site in accordance with the Council’s adopted car parking standards.  Prior to the occupation of the development the parking areas shall be constructed, surfaced, laid out and made available for such purposes in accordance with the approved scheme and retained as such thereafter.

8          Development shall not commence until a scheme for the provision and implementation of surface water drainage incorporating Sustainable Urban Drainage Schemes (SuDS) has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  The scheme shall be constructed and completed in accordance with the approved plans and prior to the occupancy of the development.

9          Development shall not commencement until details of a foul water drainage scheme to serve the development has 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 development.

10        No construction works shall occur at the site on Sundays or Bank Holidays.  On all other days no construction works shall occur at the site outside of the following times:

Monday to Friday 07:30 to 18:00

Saturday 08:00 to 13:00.