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, Mr D Lai, the Applicant, addressed the Committee.

In response to a question, the Officer showed the location of buildings on the plan to clarify the relation between the application site and the building immediately adjacent that had a certificate for lawful use for continued occupation.  The Officer also confirmed that if permission were granted for this application then there would be three independently owned dwellings on this site.

Councillor A K M St. Joseph, the Ward Member, proposed approval of the Officer’s recommendation and this was duly seconded.

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

1          The development shall be carried out in accordance with the following approved plans and documents: 1706/2/001 R-B, 1706/2/002, 1706/2/003 R-A, 1706/2/100 R-C, 1706/2/210 R-C.

2          The external surfaces of the dwellinghouse hereby permitted shall be constructed of the materials specified on drawing 1706/2/100 R-C and match those already used on the building.

3          The building shall not be occupied as a dwellinghouse unless a scheme for the proposed hedgerow shown on approved plan 1706/2/003 R-A including the size and nursery stock of the proposed specimens and a timetable for its implementation has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

The hedgerow shall be planted within the first available planting season (October to March inclusive) following the approval of the scheme, in accordance with the approved details and retained in perpetuity.

If within five years of the planting of the hedge any plant is removed, uprooted, destroyed or dies another plant of the same species and size shall be planted in the first available planting season, unless the local planning authority gives written consent to any variation.

4          The building shall not be occupied as a dwellinghouse until such time as the vehicle parking area indicated on the approved plans underneath the balcony/car port structure, 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.

5          Prior to the first occupation of the building as a dwellinghouse, an assessment of the risks posed by any contamination, carried out in accordance with British Standard BS 10175: Investigation of potentially contaminated sites – Code of Practice and the Environment Agency’s Model Procedures for the Management of Land Contamination (CLR 11) (or equivalent British Standard and Model Procedures if replaced), together with, if any contamination is found, a report specifying the measures to be taken, including the timescale, to remediate the site to render it suitable for the approved development, shall have been submitted in writing to the local planning authority for approval.

Where identified as being necessary in the approved assessment/report, the site shall be remediated in accordance with the approved measures and timescale and a verification report demonstrating the effectiveness of the remediation carried out shall be submitted in writing to the Local Planning Authority for approval within 14 days of the report being completed.

6          The building shall not be occupied as a dwellinghouse unless a comprehensive ecological survey of the site, undertaken to ascertain if any protected species are present, along with details of the provision and implementation of ecological mitigation to protect any protected species if found to be present has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  The approved scheme shall be implemented before the first occupation of the building as a dwellinghouse.