Ward: Castle

In accordance with the criteria of public speaking Mrs Cadman spoke against the application and Mr Smith spoke in favour.

 

RESOLVED

That planning permission be granted subject to the following conditions:

 

1.     The development hereby permitted shall be begun before the expiration of five years from the date of this permission.

 

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

 

2.     The development shall be carried out in all respects strictly in accordance with the site plan amended on 29 October 2004 and received on 4 November 2004, except where otherwise stipulated by conditions attached to this permission.

 

Reason: To ensure adherence to the approved plans in the interests of a satisfactory form of development.

 

3.     The building which is the subject of this application shall be used for holiday accommodation only and for no other purpose including any other purpose within Class C of the Schedule of the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987, or in any provision equivalent to that Class in any statutory instrument revoking and re-enacting that Order with or without modification.

 

Reason: The local planning authority are not prepared to allow the introduction of separate units of residential accommodation in this rural location.

 

4.     The caravans shall only be occupied between 1st April and 30th September.

 

Reason:  To prevent the establishment of a residential use in the countryside where it would not normally be permitted.

 

5.     No more than 5 static caravans and 5 touring caravans shall be stationed on the site at any one time.

 

Reason:  To clarify the terms of the permission, minimise visual intrusion and in accordance with the requirements of the Environment Agency in respect of flood risk.

 

6.     No external surface of any static caravan hereby approved shall be of a colour other than one which has previously been approved in writing by the local planning authority for that purpose.

 

Reason: To minimise visual intrusion.

 

7.     Prior to the commencement of the development details of the proposed foul and surface water drainage arrangements shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority.  The approved scheme shall be implemented before the first use of the static caravans hereby permitted.

 

Reason: To ensure that satisfactory drainage arrangements are provided and to prevent increased risk of flooding.

 

8.     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 use hereby permitted is commenced.  Development shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details.

 

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

 

9.     No development shall take place until there has been submitted to and approved by the local planning authority a scheme of landscaping, which shall include indications of all existing trees and hedgerows on the land, and details of any to be retained, together with measures for their protection in the course of development and any necessary tree surgery.  All proposed planting shall be clearly described with species, sizes and planting numbers.

 

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

 

10.   All planting, seeding or turfing comprised in the approved details of landscaping shall be carried out in the first planting and seeding seasons following the occupation of the buildings or the completion of the development, whichever is the sooner, and any trees or plants which within a period of 5 years from the completion of the development die, are removed or become seriously damaged or diseased shall be replaced in the next planting season with others of similar size and species, unless the local planning authority gives written consent to any variation.  If any plants fail more than once they shall continue to be replaced on an annual basis until the end of the 5 year defects period.

 

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

 

11.   None of the existing trees or hedgerows on the site (other than those specifically shown to be removed on the approved drawings) shall be removed, destroyed, felled, lopped or pruned without the prior consent in writing of the local planning authority.

 

Reason: To safeguard the amenity of the area.

 

12.   Before the development is commenced a scheme indicating the provision to be made for disabled people to gain access to the static caravans shall be submitted to and approved by the local planning authority.  The agreed scheme shall be implemented before the development hereby permitted is brought into use.

 

Reason: In order to ensure that the development is fully accessible.

 

13.   The development hereby permitted shall not be brought into use until areas for the manoeuvring, parking, loading and unloading of vehicles have been laid out, consolidated, surfaced and drained in accordance with a scheme to be submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority and such areas shall thereafter be retained and kept available for those uses at all times.

 

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

 

14.   Prior to the first occupation of any of the static holiday caravans hereby approved, details relating to the display of flood warning signs within the site shall be submitted to and approved by the local planning authority.  The approved signage shall thereafter be retained such that it is visible at all time during the occupation of the static caravans.  In addition, flood warning and evacuation procedure notices should be clearly displayed on the site and within each static caravan.

 

Reason:  To minimise the risk of a threat to human life during a flood event.

 

15.   The static caravan site and the public house known as the Swan Inn, Letton, shall not be sold separately from each other.

 

Reason:  To minimise the risk of the static caravans becoming self-contained residential units and in the interests of the amenities of neighbouring residents.

 

Informative:

 

1.     The decision to grant planning permission has been taken having regard to the policies and proposals in the Leominster District Local Plan set out below, and to all relevant material considerations including Supplementary Planning Guidance:

 

A2(D) - Settlement Hierarchy

A9 - Safeguarding the Rural Landscape

A12 - New Development and Landscape Schemes

A15 - Development and Watercourses

A16 - Foul Drainage

A18 - Listed Buildings and Their Settings

A24 - Scale and Character of Development

A38 - rural Tourism and Recreational Activities

A39 - Holiday Chalet, Caravan and Camping Sites

A54 - Protection of Residential Amenity

A70 - Accommodating Traffic from Development