Agenda item

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

Following the Officer’s presentation, Mrs Emma Winfield, the Applicant, addressed the Committee.

Councillor Mrs B F Acevedo proposed that the application be approved contrary to the Officer’s recommendation and this was duly seconded by Councillor P G L Elliott.

The Committee determined that the reason for approval was on the basis that the application site was a sustainable location for residential development and that the development would represent a visual improvement to the site.

The Chairman put the proposal to the Committee and upon a vote being taken it was agreed to approve the application.

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

1.         The development hereby permitted shall begin no later than three years from

the date of this decision.

2.         The development shall be carried out in accordance with the following approved plans and documents:  EDW 02, EDW 03, EDW 04 REVN, EDW 01 REVN.

3.         The external surfaces of the building hereby approved shall be constructed of the materials specified on the plans hereby approved.

4.         The existing mobile home at the application site shall be removed prior to the occupation of the dwelling hereby approved.

5.         Details of the siting, height, design and materials of the treatment of all

boundaries including the retention of existing hedges, gates, fences, walls, railings and piers shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority prior to first use/occupation of the development hereby approved.  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.

6.         Full details of hard and soft landscape works and means of protecting those parts of the existing hedges at the site that are to be retained during the course of development shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority prior to any works occurring above ground level at the application site.

The soft landscape works shall be carried out as approved within the first available planting season (October to March inclusive) following the occupation of any part of the development hereby approved unless otherwise 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.

The hard landscape works shall be carried out as approved prior to the first use / occupation of the development hereby approved and retained and maintained as such thereafter       

7.         No works above ground level shall occur until details of the foul drainage scheme to serve the development 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 development.

8.         No works above ground level shall occur until details of the surface water drainage scheme to serve the development 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 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)

            The Applicant is 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.  Where the local planning authority accepts discharge to an adopted sewer network you will be required to provide written confirmation from the statutory undertaker that the discharge will be accepted.

9.         Prior to the occupation of the dwelling hereby permitted details of the proposed cycle store shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority.  The cycle store shall be provided before the first occupation of the dwelling hereby approved and retained for such purposes at all times thereafter.

10.       Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 3 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.