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, including those listed on the Members’ Update circulated at the meeting.

The Officer presented the report and drew attention to the Members’ Update and advised that the matters raised were not planning consideration.  Following this, Tony Rymill, the Agent, addressed the Committee.

In response to a question, the Chairman advised that the application site was not a conservation area.

In response to a question regarding whether the conditions proposed covered the matters raised by the Highways Authority, the Development Control Officer confirmed that the conditions were correct for this application.

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. 

4          Within 3 months following the first occupation or connection to utility services, whichever is the sooner, of the dwelling hereby approved the existing dwelling on the site shall be demolished and the resulting material removed from the site.

5          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 extensions shall be erected within the site without planning permission having been obtained from the local planning authority.

6          No works or development shall take place until full details of both hard and soft landscape works have been submitted and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  These details shall include the layout and materials of all hard surfaced areas.  Details of soft landscape works shall include planting plans, written specification (including cultivation and other operations associated with plant and grass establishment), schedules of plant noting species, plant size d and proposed numbers/densities, where appropriate and an implementation programme. 

7          No development shall commence until details of the siting, height, design and materials of the treatment of all boundaries including gates, fences, walls, railing and piers have been submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority.  The screening as approved shall be construction prior to the first occupation of the development to which it relates and be retained as such thereafter.

8          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.

9          No unbound material shall be used in the surface treatment of the vehicular access within 6m of the highway boundary.

10        Prior to commencement/occupation of the development hereby approved, the access at its centre line shall be provided with a clear to ground visibility splay with dimensions of 2 metres by 25 metres to the north west and 2 metres by 25 metres to the south east, as measured from and along the nearside edge of the carriageway. Such vehicular visibility splays shall be provided before the access is first used by vehicular traffic and retained free of any obstruction at all times.

POSITIVE AND PROACTIVE STATEMENT

Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) (Amendment No.2) Order 2012 - 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.