Agenda item

Report No: DEV/SE/18/048

Planning Application - Change of use of B8 storage and distribution building to 1no. residential dwelling

Planning Application - Change of use of B8 storage and distribution building to 1no. residential dwelling

This application was referred to the Development Control Committee on the basis of the defined conflict with policy, nothing that, in order to progress as a delegated item, proposals otherwise needed to be ‘consistent’ with the provisions of the Development Plan.

The Planning Officer explained that Members should note the conflict identified within the report, alongside the material considerations that Officers believed in this circumstance justified a recommendation of approval subject to conditions, as set out in Paragraph 44 of Report No DEV/SE/18/048.

As part of his presentation the Planning Officer advised that:

·         The Ward Member was in support of the scheme, however, the Parish Council had registered objections;

·         The significant weight that needed to be attributed to the ‘fallback position’ of Permitted Development, irrespective of the application being contrary to policy; and

·         The three applications listed as refused under the ‘planning history’ section of the report were all won on appeal.

Speaker:      Mr Brian Barrow (Agent) spoke in support of the application      

Councillor Peter Stevens spoke in support of the application and moved that it be approved, as per the Officer recommendation.  This was duly seconded by Councillor Andrew Smith.

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       The development hereby permitted shall be begun not later than 10^th June 2019.

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

 3       The areas to be provided for storage of Refuse/Recycling bins as shown on Drawing No. Rev.A 15.08.18 shall be provided in its entirety before the development is brought into use and shall be retained thereafter for no other purpose.

 4       The use shall not commence until the areas within the site shown on Drawing No. Rev.A 15.08.18 for the purposes of manoeuvring and parking of vehicles has been provided and thereafter those areas shall be retained and used for no other purposes.

 5       No development approved by this planning permission shall commence until 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 (based on the approved Preliminary Risk Assessment (PRA) within the approved Desk Study), to provide information for a detailed assessment of the risk to all receptors that may be affected, including those off site.

          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), an options appraisal and 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. The plan shall also detail a long term monitoring and maintenance plan as necessary.

 6       No occupation of any part of the permitted development shall take place until a verification report demonstrating completion of works set out in the remediation strategy in iii) is submitted and approved, in writing, by the Local Planning Authority. The long term monitoring and maintenance plan in iii) shall be updated and be implemented as approved.

 7       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.

8        The site demolition, preparation and construction works shall be carried out between the hours of 08:00 to18:00 Mondays to Fridays and between the hours of 08:00 to 13:30 Saturdays and at no time on Sundays or Bank Holidays without the prior written consent of the Local Planning Authority.

9        No security lights or floodlights shall be erected on site without the submission of details to, and written approval from, the Local Planning Authority to ensure a lighting environment of low district brightness at residential properties.

10      No development above ground level shall take place until details of the treatment of the boundaries of the site have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The details shall specify the siting, design, height and materials of the screen walls/fences to be constructed or erected and/or the species, spacing and height of hedging to be retained and / or planted together with a programme of implementation. Any planting removed, dying, being severely damaged or becoming seriously diseased within five years of planting shall be replaced by soft landscaping of similar size and species to those originally required to be planted.  The works shall be completed prior to first use/occupation in accordance with the approved details.

11      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. 

12      The dwelling hereby approved shall not 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 and evidence of compliance has been obtained.

13      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.

(On conclusion of this item Councillor Mike Chester left the meeting at 2.17pm.)