Agenda item

To consider the report of the Director of Strategy, Performance and Governance, (copy enclosed).

A Members’ Update was submitted detailing representations from Latchingdon Parish Council and Essex County Council Highways Authority received post publication of the report.

Following the Officer’s presentation, Mr Russell Forde, the Agent, addressed the Committee.

Members then had a brief discussion where issues of archaeological merit were raised. Councillor Mrs B F Acevedo proposed that the application be approved in accordance with the Officer’s recommendation and this was duly seconded.

The Chairman put the recommendation to the Committee and upon a vote being taken 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 16.3664/M001; 16.3664/M006; 18/0808/01A; 18/0808/02A and 18/0808/03A.

3.         No development works above ground level shall take place until samples of

the facing material to be used, including glazing, have been submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority. The works must then be carried out in accordance with the approved details.

4.         No works above ground level shall commence until there shall have been

submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority a scheme of hard and soft landscaping. The scheme shall include indications of all existing trees and hedgerows on the land, identify those to be retained and set out measures for their protection throughout the course of development.

The hard landscape works shall be carried out as approved prior to the occupation of the development hereby approved.

All planting, seeding or turfing comprised in the approved details of landscaping shall be carried out in the first planting and seeding seasons following the occupation of the buildings or the completion of the development, whichever is the sooner; and any trees or plants which within a period of 5 years from the completion of the development die, are removed or become seriously damaged or diseased shall be replaced in the next planting season with others of similar size and species

5.         No works above ground level shall take place until details of the boundary

treatment 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 and be retained as such in perpetuity.

6.         The existing hedgerows and trees along the northern and western boundaries

of the application site shall be protected during the construction of the development.

7.         The dwelling hereby permitted shall not be occupied until the first floor

window on the east elevation serving bathroom has been fitted with obscured glazing, and no part of those windows that is less than 1.7 metres above the floor of the room in which it is installed shall be capable of being opened. Details of the type of obscured glazing shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority before the windows are installed and once installed the obscured glazing shall be retained thereafter.

8.         Prior to occupation of the development, the site access shall be constructed at

right angles to the highway boundary and to the existing carriageway. As shown in drawing 18/0808/01A, the width of the access at its junction with the highway shall not be less than 6.0 metres and shall be provided with an appropriate vehicular crossing of the highway verge.

9.         Prior to occupation of the development, the site access at its centre line shall

be provided with a clear to ground visibility splay with dimensions of 2.4 metres by 43 metres in both directions, as measured from and along the nearside edge of the carriageway. Such vehicular visibility splays shall be provided before the access road is first used by vehicular traffic and retained free of any obstruction at all times.

10.       No dwelling shall be occupied until space has been laid out within the site in

accordance with details that have been submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority for cars to be parked. That space shall thereafter be kept available at all times for the parking of vehicles.

11.       No development works above ground level shall occur, details of the surface

water and foul water drainage scheme to serve the development shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority. The approved scheme shall be implemented in full prior to the first occupation of the development.

12.       No development shall take place until a Written Scheme of Investigation of

archaeology shall have been submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority. No development shall take place other than in accordance with the Written Scheme of Investigation.

13.       No development shall take place, including any ground works or 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:

i. the parking of vehicles of site operatives and visitors

ii. loading and unloading of plant and materials

iii. storage of plant and materials used in constructing the development

iv. wheel and underbody washing facilities.

The approved Construction Method Statement shall be adhered to throughout the construction period for the development.

14.       Prior to the occupation of any part of the development hereby permitted details

of the number, location and design of bicycle parking facilities/powered two wheelers shall be submitted to and agreed in writing by the local planning authority.  The approved provisions shall be provided in accordance with the approved scheme before any part of the development hereby approved is occupied and retained as such thereafter.