Agenda item

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

Following the Officer’s presentation, Mrs Wendy Stamp, Town Councillor, Burnham Town Council, and Mrs Wendy Clarke, the Applicant, addressed the Committee.

Councillor N R Pudney proposed that the application be approved contrary to the Officer’s recommendation and this was duly seconded by Councillor Mrs B F Acevedo.

The Committee determined that the application site is a sustainable location for residential development and the development will represent the visual continuation of the approved development to the east of the application 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 conditions:

1.         The development shall be carried out in accordance with plans and particulars

relating to the access, scale, layout, appearance and landscaping of the site (hereinafter called "the reserved matters"), for which approval shall be obtained from the local planning authority in writing before any development is begun. The development shall be carried out fully in accordance with the details as approved.

2.         Application(s) 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.

3.         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.

4.         Prior to their use in the development hereby approved, details of the materials to be used in the construction of the external surfaces, including windows and doors, of the development hereby approved shall 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.

5.         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.

6.         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)

7.         At the same time that an application is made for the approval of the matter of layout, a scheme of noise mitigation shall be submitted and be accompanied with details of a noise assessment that demonstrates the levels of noise that are likely to impact upon the occupation of the site.  Subsequently, the scheme of mitigation shall be fully implemented prior to the first occupation of the dwellings hereby approved. 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.

8.         The landscaping details referred to in Condition 1 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.