Agenda item

To consider the report of the Director of Strategy, Performance and Governance (copy enclosed, Members’ Update to be circulated)*.

Following the Officer’s presentation Carol Sorrell, an Objector, addressed the Committee.

Members discussed the application, taking into consideration whether a refusal would be overturned at appeal, and queried whether a restriction could be placed on the size, bulk, and scale of the dwelling.

The Development Management Team Leader advised that the Committee could restrict permitted development rights, and that were the development to change a different application would have to be submitted.

The Chairman put the Officers recommendation of approval to the Committee, which was duly seconded, and upon a vote being taken the motion was carried.

RESOLVED that the application be APPROVED in accordance with 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 accordance with the following approved plans and documents: 1820.33, 1820.30revG

3                 No development shall take place above slab level until samples of the materials to be used in the construction of the external surfaces of the buildings 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.

4                 Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 3 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015 (or any Order amending, revoking or re-enacting that Order) no wall, fence, gate or other means of enclosure shall be erected within or around the site without the prior grant of planning permission by the local planning authority.

5                 No development shall take place above slab level until details of the soft and hard landscape works for the site have been submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority. The soft landscaping works approved shall be carried out as approved within the first available planting season (October to March inclusive) following the commencement of the development 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 approved hard landscape works shall be carried out as approved prior to the first occupation of the development hereby approved and retained and maintained as such thereafter.

6                 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 to the dwelling shall be erected within the site and, other than those forming part of this planning permission, no dormer window or other form of addition or opening shall be constructed in the roof or gable walls of the buildings hereby permitted without planning permission having first been obtained from the local planning authority.

7                 No development shall take place above slab level until details of surface water drainage for the development have been submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority. The development shall be completed in accordance with the approved details prior to the occupation of the dwelling and shall be retained as approved thereafter.

8                 Foul drainage shall be drained to the public sewer as proposed unless alternative proposals have been submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority before development works above ground level occur. The approved scheme shall be implemented prior to the first occupation of the development.

9                 Prior to the first occupation of the dwelling hereby permitted, the first floor windows in the side elevations of the dwelling hereby permitted shall be glazed with opaque glass and of a non- openable design below a height of 1.7m above internal floor level and shall be retained as such thereafter.

10             All loading / unloading / reception and storage of building materials and the manoeuvring of all vehicles, including construction traffic shall be undertaken clear of the public highway, Burnham Avenue and Purleigh Grove.

11             The public’s rights and ease of passage over footpath number 19 in Cold Norton shall be maintained free and unobstructed at all times.