Agenda item

Report No: DEV/FH/18/026

Outline Planning Application (All matters reserved) - Conversion of existing building (mixed use: Class D1 and Sui Generis) into 12no. apartments (Class C3) with associated external works, landscaping and parking

Outline Planning Application (All matters reserved) - Conversion of existing building (mixed use: Class D1 and Sui Generis) into 12no. apartments (Class C3) with associated external works, landscaping and parking

This application was referred to the Development Control Committee in light of the Asset of Community Value (ACV) application that was made earlier in the year for the building and also due to the Newmarket Neighbourhood Plan (NNP) which was in the early stages of being drafted.

A Member site visit was held prior to the meeting.  Officers were recommending that the application be approved, subject to conditions as set out in Paragraph 10.1 of Report No DEV/FH/18/026.

Since publication of the agenda supplementary papers had been circulated which related to the Council’s standard water efficiency condition.

Speaker:      Doctor Rachel Wood (Governor, All Saints Primary School) spoke against the application

Members raised questions with regard to the Asset of Community Value (ACV) application; in response the Senior Planning Officer explained that the application was to be determined based on the information that was before the Committee, with no weight to be attributed in the planning balance in respect of the ACV nomination. 

Further questions were posed by the Committee in respect of parking arrangements and safeguarding (in relation to the neighbouring primary school).  The Case Officer explained that as the application before the Committee was in outline form, these factors would be addressed at the reserved matters stage.

Councillor David Bowman moved that the application be approved, as per the Officer recommendation.  This was duly seconded by Councillor Simon Cole who spoke on the need for this type of accommodation in Newmarket.

Upon being put to the vote and with the vote being unanimous, it was resolved that

Decision

Planning permission be GRANTED subject to the following conditions:

1        Application for the approval of the matters reserved by conditions of this permission shall be made to the Local Planning Authority before the expiration of three years from the date of this permission.  The development hereby permitted shall be begun not later than whichever is the latest of the following dates:-

          i)       The expiration of three years from the date of this permission; or

          ii)       The expiration of two years from the final approval of the reserved matters; or,

          In the case of approval on different dates, the final approval of the last such matter to be approved.        

2        Prior to commencement of development the following components to deal with the risks associated with contamination of the site shall each be submitted to and approved, in writing, by the Local Planning Authority:

          i)       A site investigation scheme,

          ii)       The results of a site investigation based on i) and a detailed       risk assessment, including a revised Conceptual Site Model      (CSM),

          iii)      Based on the risk assessment in ii), a remediation strategy         giving full details of the remediation measures required and     how they are to be undertaken. The strategy shall include a    plan providing details of how the remediation works shall be           judged to be complete and arrangements for contingency actions.

3        No occupation of any part of the permitted development shall take place until a verification report demonstrating completion of works is set out in the remediation strategy.

4        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 Local Planning Authority) shall be carried out until the developer has submitted a remediation strategy to the Local Planning Authority detailing how this unsuspected contamination shall be dealt with and obtained written approval from the Local Planning Authority. The remediation strategy shall be implemented as approved.

5        Prior to commencement of development details of the access, appearance, landscaping, layout, and scale [access, appearance, landscaping, layout, and scale] (hereinafter called "the reserved matters") shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The development shall be carried out as approved.

6        The development hereby permitted shall not be carried out except in complete accordance with the details shown on the approved plans and documents.    

7        Prior to occupation details of biodiversity enhancement measures to be installed at the site, including details of the timescale for installation, shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Any such measures as may be agreed shall be installed in accordance with the agreed timescales and thereafter retained as so installed. There shall be no occupation unless and until details of the biodiversity enhancement measures to be installed have been agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

8        Prior to first occupation, all dwellings with off street parking shall be provided with an operational electric vehicle charge point at reasonably and practicably accessible locations, with an electric supply to the charge point capable of providing a 7kW charge. 

9        No individual dwelling hereby approved shall be occupied until the optional requirement for water consumption (110 litres use per person per day) in Part G of the Building Regulations has been complied with for that dwelling.