Removal of Planning Condition 3 of Planning Permission DCCE2004/0568/F - Requiring north facing windows to be glazed with obscured glass and permanently fixed shut.

Removal of Planning Condition 3 of Planning Permission DCCE2004/0568/F - Requiring north facing windows to be glazed with obscured glass and permanently fixed shut.

The Senior Planning Officer reported the receipt of the comments of the Environmental Health and Trading Standards Manager (no objections).

In accordance with the criteria for public speaking, Mrs. Hutchinson spoke against the application.

Councillor D.B. Wilcox, a Local Ward Member, acknowledged the concerns of the objector and the need to mitigate the impact of the development.  He suggested additional conditions in respect of landscaping and screening in order to protect the residential amenity of adjacent properties.

The Senior Planning Officer advised that the applicant’s agent had indicated that landscaping could be improved and that efforts were being made to reduce potential noise from the sport annex.

A number of Members supported the application subject to the conditions suggested by the Local Ward Member and any other conditions considered necessary by Officers.

RESOLVED:

That planning permission is granted, with an amended description to vary Condition 3 only, subject to the following conditions and any further conditions felt to be necessary by Officers :

1.            Within 2 months of the date of this permission full details of all the first floor windows in the north west facing elevation, including the nature of their restricted opening mechanism, shall be submitted to an agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  The windows shall then be retained and maintained in accordance with the agreed details and not replaced or altered unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

         Reason: To safeguard the amenities of the locality

2.            The use of the three principal rooms identified in the approved plan shall be retained for non-practical teaching purposes the specific type of which shall be approved in writing by the local planning authority within 2 months of the date of this permission and/or staff room office use only.

         Reason: To safeguard the amenities of the locality

3.            The permission hereby granted is an amendment to Condition 3 attached to planning permission DCCE2004/0568/F and, otherwise than is expressly altered by this permission, the conditions attached thereto remain.

Reason: For the avoidance of doubt.

4.      None of the existing trees to the north of 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.

5.      Within 6 months of the date of this permission a scheme of landscaping for the boundary to the north of the site, 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 shall be submitted to and approved by the local planning authority.  All proposed planting shall be clearly described with species, sizes and planting numbers.

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

6.      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.

7.      A landscape management plan for the boundary to the north of the site, including long term objectives, management responsibilities and a schedule of landscape maintenance for a minimum period of 10 years, shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority within 6 months of the date of this permission.  The landscape management plan shall be carried out as approved.

         Reason: In the interests of visual and residential amenity.

Informative:

1.      N15 (Reasons for Grant of Planning Permission).