Agenda item

Report No: DEV/FH/16/018

Outline Planning Application DC/15/0070/OUT (means of access to be considered) - up to 8 no dwellings and associated access

Outline Planning Application DC/15/0070/OUT (means of access to be considered) - up to 8 no dwellings and associated access.

This application was deferred from consideration at the Development Control Committee on 6 July 2016 as Members resolved that they were ‘minded to approve’ planning permission, contrary to the Officer recommendation of refusal, due to the benefits the scheme provided.

Report No DEV/FH/16/018 included a risk assessment of the potential reasons for approval.  A Member site visit had been held prior to the July meeting.  Officers were continuing to recommend that the application be refused.

Councillor Louise Marston made reference to the benefits the scheme afforded and moved that the application be approved, this was duly seconded by Councillor Brian Harvey.

With 11 voting for the motion and with 1 against, it was resolved that:

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,

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

Reason: To conform with the requirements of Section 92 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 as amended by Section 51 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004.

2.   Details of the appearance, landscaping, layout, and scale (hereinafter called "the reserved matters") shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority before any development begins and the development shall be carried out as approved.

Reason: Required to be imposed pursuant to Section 92 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended) and to enable to the Local Planning Authority to exercise proper control over these aspects of the development

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

Location plan (received 14.01.2015)

Layout plan 02 B (received 08.02.2016)

Highways improvement layout 150/2014/01

Highways improvement layout 150/2014/02

Highways improvement layout 150/2014/03

Reason: To define the scope and extent of this permission.

4.   Demolition or construction works shall not take place outside 08:00 hours to 18:00 hours Mondays to Fridays and 08:00 hours to 13.30 hours on Saturdays and at no time on Sundays or Bank Holidays.

Reason: To protect the amenity of occupiers of adjacent properties from noise and disturbance.

5.   No security lights or floodlights shall be erected on site without the submission of details to, and written approval from, the Local Planning Authority.

Reason: To ensure a lighting environment of low district brightness at residential properties and to protect the amenity of the area.

6.   The recommendations/mitigation set out in the Ecological Scoping Survey and Bat Survey (both by Hillier Ecology Ltd), both dated July 2014, shall be implemented in full. All enhancements shall be carried out prior to occupation of the dwellings.

Reason: To provide ecological enhancements on the site in accordance with the NPPF.

7.   No other part of the development hereby permitted shall be commenced until the existing vehicular access has been improved, laid out and completed in all respects in accordance with drawing no. 150/2014/02; and with a minimum entrance width of 5.5 metres. Thereafter the access shall be retained in the specified form.

Reason: It is necessary to impose a pre-commencement condition in the interests of highway safety to ensure that the layout of the access is properly designed, constructed and provided before the development is commenced.

8.   Before the development is commenced details shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority showing the means to prevent the discharge of surface water from the development onto the highway. The approved scheme shall be carried out in its entirety before the access is first used and shall be retained thereafter in its approved form.

Reason: To prevent hazards caused by flowing water or ice on the highway.

9.   Before the development is commenced details of the areas to be provided for the [LOADING, UNLOADING,] manoeuvring and parking of vehicles including secure cycle storage shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The approved scheme shall be carried out in its entirety before the development is brought into use and shall be retained thereafter and used for no other purpose.

Reason: It is necessary to impose a pre-commencement condition to ensure the provision and long term maintenance of adequate on-site space for the parking and manoeuvring of vehicles, where on-street parking and manoeuvring would be detrimental to highway safety.

10.        Before the development is commenced details showing an adequate car turning space within the site shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

The approved scheme shall be carried out before occupation and shall be retained thereafter and used for no other purpose.

Reason: It is necessary to impose a pre-commencement condition to enable vehicles to enter and exit the public highway in forward gear in the interests of highway safety.

11.        Before the access is first used visibility splays shall be provided as shown on Drawing No. 150/2014/02 with an X dimension of 2.4 metres and a Y dimension of 90 metres and thereafter retained in the specified form. Notwithstanding the provisions of Part 2 Class A of the Town & Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995 (or any Order revoking and re-enacting that Order with or without modification) no obstruction over 0.6 metres high shall be erected, constructed, planted or permitted to grow within the areas of the visibility splays.

Reason: To ensure vehicles exiting the drive would have sufficient visibility to enter the public highway safely and vehicles on the public highway would have sufficient warning of a vehicle emerging in order to take avoiding action.

12.        Before the development is occupied the footway and crossing points on Wilde Street shown on drawing numbers 150/2014/01; 150/2014/02 and 150/2014/03 shall be provided. Details of the works shall first be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

Reason: To provide a sustainable footway link from the development to the existing footway network of Beck Row in the interests of highway safety and sustainability.

13.        The acoustic insulation of the dwelling units within the proposed development shall be such to ensure noise levels with windows closed do not exceed an LAeq(16hrs) of 35 dB(A) within bedrooms and living rooms between the hours of 07:00 to 23:00 and an LAeq(8hrs) of 30dB(A) within bedrooms and living rooms between the hours of 23:00 to 07:00.

Reason: To protect the amenity of residential occupiers due to the close proximity of RAF Mildenhall and RAF Lakenheath.

A Section 106 has already been signed to secure the affordable housing. There are no other s106 requirements.

Speaker:      Mr Paul Scarlett (Agent) spoke in support of the application.