Proposed additional unit to approved scheme Ref: DCSE2007/0645/F.

Proposed additional unit to approved scheme Ref: DCSE2007/0645/F.

The Principal Planning Officer confirmed that the 12 residents of Wallace Court who had previously objected to the application had now withdrawn their representations subject to the applicant carrying out a number of remedial measures and the inclusion of agreed conditions.

RESOLVED

That planning permission be granted subject to the following conditions:

1.         A01 (Time limit for commencement (full permission))

Reason: Required to be imposed by Section 91 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.

2.         B01 (Samples of external materials)

            Reason: To ensure that the materials harmonise with the surroundings.

3.         G01 (Details of boundary treatments)

Reason: In the interests of visual amenity and to ensure dwellings have satisfactory privacy.

4.         F49 (Finished floor levels (area at risk from flooding))

            Reason: To protect the development from flooding.

5.         F32 (Details of floodlighting/external lighting)

            Reason: To safeguard local amenities.

6.         H14 (Turning and parking: change of use - domestic)

Reason: To minimise the likelihood of indiscriminate parking in the interests of highway safety.

7.         H29 (Secure covered cycle parking provision)

Reason: To ensure that there is adequate provision for secure covered cycle accommodation within the application site, encouraging alternative modes of transport in accordance with both local and national planning policy.

No development shall take place until details of the gate giving access to the emergency pedestrian route have been submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority.  The gate shall be kept shut except in the event of a flood or other emergency.

            Reason:  In the interests of neighbours’ security.

9.         The development shall be carried out in accordance with the remedial measures set out in the e-mail communication of 23 November 2007 from Jason Pritchard of Edge Design Workshop Ltd.

            Reason:  To ensure the security and privacy of neighbours.

10.       E19 (Obscure glazing to windows)

Reason: In order to protect the residential amenity of adjacent properties.

11.       G04 (Landscaping scheme (general)

            Reason: In order to protect the visual amenities of the area.

12.       G05 (Implementation of landscaping scheme (general))

            Reason:  In order to protect the visual amenities of the area.

13.       Prior to the commencement of any development, details of the proposed flood defence wall, as indicated on plan WEROWY 207 entitled 'outline flood defence proposals', dated March 06, shall be submitted to and agreed in writing by the LPA, in consultation with the Environment Agency.  Thereafter the wall shall be implemented and maintained, in accordance with the approved details.

Reason:  To protect the development from flood risk and ensure the flood defence wall is designed and built to an appropriate standard.

14.       Flood proofing techniques shall be incorporated into the design of the building, to protect the development up to the 1% plus climate change flood level.

Reason:  To protect the development from flood risk.

15.       If during development, contamination not previously identified, is found to be present at the site then no further development (unless otherwise agreed in writing with the LPA) shall be carried out until the developer has submitted, and obtained written approval from the LPA, a Method Statement. The Method Statement must detail how this unsuspected contamination shall be dealt with.  Thereafter development of the site shall be carried out in accordance with the approved Method Statement.

Reason:  To prevent pollution of controlled waters.

Informative(s):

1.         HN01 - Mud on highway

2.         HN05 - Works within the highway

3.         HN10 - No drainage to discharge to highway

4.         N19 - Avoidance of doubt

5.         N15 - Reason(s) for the Grant of Planning Permission