Agenda item

To consider the planning application and recommendations of the Director of Planning and Regulatory Services (copy enclosed, Members’ Update to be circulated)*.

The Committee received the report of the Director of Planning and Regulatory Services and determined the following planning application, having taken into account all representations and consultation replies received.

Following the Officer’s presentation of the report, Robert Steed, the Agent, addressed the Committee.

In response to a question from Members, the Interim Development Management and Enforcement Manager advised that when the appeal was allowed on this site, the Planning Inspector did not require affordable housing, the Members could impose this requirement if they were so minded.

RESOLVED that this 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 the approved drawings specifically referenced on this decision notice.

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          No development shall take place until full details of both hard and soft

landscape works have been submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority and these works shall be carried out as approved. These details shall include means of enclosure; car parking layouts; other vehicle and pedestrian access and circulation areas; hard surfacing materials. Soft landscape works shall include planting plans; written specifications (including cultivation and other operations associated with plant and grass establishment); schedules of plants, noting species, plant sizes and proposed numbers/densities where appropriate; implementation programme. The soft landscape works shall be carried out as approved within the first available planting season following the commencement of development. If within a period of two years from the date of the planting of any tree that tree, or any tree planted in replacement for it, is removed, uprooted or destroyed or dies, or becomes, in the opinion of the local planning authority, seriously damaged or defective, another tree of the same species and size as that originally planted shall be planted at the same place, unless the local planning authority gives its written approval to any variation.

5          No development shall take place until there has been submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority a plan indicating the positions, design, materials and type of boundary treatment to be erected. The boundary treatment shall be completed before the dwellings hereby permitted are occupied. Development shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details.

6          Prior to the commencement of the development details of the surface water and foul drainage scheme to serve the development shall be 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.

7          The detached garage for Plot 3a and Plot 3b hereby permitted shall only be used for those purposes incidental to the use of the dwelling house to which it relates and not for any commercial or business purpose or as annexe accommodation.

8          The development hereby permitted shall be carried out in accordance with the Ecological information dated 27 January 2016 and Drawing No: F169/10 Revision C dated 4 February 2016 submitted with the application.

9          Prior to the first occupation of the development hereby permitted, the first floor window in the south elevation of Plot 3a serving the bathroom and the first floor window in the north elevation of Plot 3b serving the bathroom shall be glazed with opaque glass and of a non-openable design with the exception of a top hung fanlight (which shall be at least 1.7m above internal floor level) and shall be retained as such thereafter.

POSITIVE AND PROACTIVE STATEMENT

Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2015 - Positive and Proactive Statement:

The Local Planning Authority has acted positively and proactively in determining this application by assessing the proposal against all material considerations, including planning policies and any representations that may have been received and subsequently determining to grant planning permission in accordance with the presumption in favour of sustainable development, as set out within the National Planning Policy Framework.