Agenda item

Reference Number - 120107

The Sub Committee had before it a report by the Head of Planning and Sustainable Development which recommended:-

that the Sub Committee approve the application in respect of planning permission for the demolition of a vacant Council depot building and the erection of a new flatted development (6 units) and associated car parking, subject to the following conditions, and a legal agreement to secure affordable housing and suitable community infrastructure provisions:-

(1)  That no development shall take place unless there has been submitted to and approved in writing by the planning authority, a detailed scheme of the shared surface layout proposed for the access lane including street furniture, lighting, materials and hard and soft landscaping for the entire development hereby granted planning permission. None of the units hereby granted planning permission shall be occupied unless the said works have been implemented in accordance the approved scheme; (2) That no development shall take place unless it is carried out in full accordance with a scheme to deal with contamination on the site that has been approved in writing by the planning authority. The scheme shall follow the procedures outlined in Planning Advice Note 33 Development of Contaminated Land and shall be conducted by a suitably qualified person in accordance with best practice as detailed in BS10175 Investigation of Potentially Contaminated Sites - Code of Practice and other best practice guidance and shall include (i) an investigation to determine the nature and extent of contamination; (ii) a site-specific risk assessment; and (iii) a remediation plan to address any significant risks and ensure the site is fit for the use proposed. No building(s) on the development site shall be occupied unless (i) any long term monitoring and reporting that may be required by the approved scheme of contamination or remediation plan or that otherwise has been required in writing by the planning authority is being undertaken; and (ii) a report specifically relating to the building(s) has been submitted and approved in writing by the planning authority that verifies that remedial works to fully address contamination issues related to the building(s)  have been carried out, unless the planning authority has given written consent for a variation. The final building on the application site shall not be occupied unless a report has been submitted and approved in writing by the planning authority that verifies that completion of the remedial works for the entire application site, unless the planning authority has given written consent for a variation; (3)  That no development shall take place unless a scheme of all drainage works designed to meet the requirements of SUDS has been submitted to and approved in writing by the planning authority and thereafter no part of the development shall be occupied unless the drainage has been installed in complete accordance with the said scheme; (4)  That no development shall take place unless a scheme detailing the external lighting proposed for the development has been submitted to and approved in writing by the planning authority. Thereafter none of the units hereby approved shall be occupied unless the external lighting has been installed in complete accordance with the said scheme and is operational; (5)  That no development shall take place unless details of the zero and low carbon equipment to be incorporated into the development and predicted carbon emissions, using SAP or SBEM calculations, have been approved in writing by the planning authority. Thereafter none of the units hereby approved shall be occupied unless the equipment has been installed in accordance with those approved details and is operational; (6) That no development shall take place unless a scheme detailing the cycle storage provision shown on drawings 101(Rev.E) has been submitted to and approved in writing by the planning authority. Thereafter none of the units hereby approved shall be occupied unless the cycle storage has been installed in complete accordance with the said scheme; (7)  That no development pursuant to the planning permission hereby approved shall be carried out unless there has been submitted to and approved in writing for the purpose by the planning authority a further detailed scheme of landscaping for the site, which scheme shall include indications of all existing trees and landscaped areas on the land, and details of any to be retained, together with measures for their protection in the course of development, and the proposed areas of tree/shrub planting including details of numbers, densities, locations, species, sizes and stage of maturity at planting;  (8)  That all planting, seeding and turfing comprised in the approved scheme of landscaping shall be carried out in the first planting season following the completion of the development and any trees or plants which within a period of five 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 a size and species similar to those originally required to be planted, or in accordance with such other scheme as may be submitted to and approved in writing for the purpose by the planning authority; (9)  That the development hereby approved shall not be occupied unless the car parking area hereby granted planning permission has been constructed, drained, laid out and demarcated in accordance with drawing No. 101(Rev.C) of the plans hereby approved or such other drawing as may subsequently be submitted and approved in writing by the planning authority. Such areas shall not thereafter be used for any other purpose other than the purpose of the parking of cars ancillary to the development and use thereby granted approval; and (10)  That none of the units hereby approved shall be occupied unless the refuse stores have been provided in accordance with drawings 101(Rev.E) and 102 of the plans or such other drawing as may subsequently be submitted and approved in writing by the planning authority.

The Sub Committee resolved:-

to defer consideration of the application meantime to enable members to visit the site.