Agenda item

Section 2 report of the Director of Place Directorate (attached)

The Director of the Place Directorate’s representative presented the report on the application to members and noted that whilst the application was for the permanent retention of a structure which had been given temporary permission under the original application, this application had to be treated on its own merits.

At the invitation of the Chairman, the ward member, Councillor Shopland, spoke on the application.

Resolved: that the application be APPROVED subject to the following conditions:

1. The development hereby permitted shall be begun before the expiry of three years from the date of this permission.

2. The development hereby permitted shall be carried out in accordance with the approved plans and documents to be listed on the decision notice.

3. Notwithstanding the provisions of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) and the Schedule to the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987 (as amended) (or any Orders revoking and re-enacting those Orders, with or without modification), the premises shall only be used for class E(g)(i) office use and for no other purpose.

4. Notwithstanding the provisions of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended), (or any Order revoking and re-enacting that Order, with or without modification), no extensions or external alterations to the building shall be carried out other than those expressly authorised by this permission.

5. The office use hereby permitted shall not take place outside the hours of 0800 hours to 1800 hours Mondays to Saturdays and 1000 hours to 1600 hours on Sundays, Bank and Public Holidays, unless otherwise agreed in writing with the Local Planning Authority.

6. No development shall take place, including any works of demolition, until a Construction Method Statement has been submitted to, and approved in writing by, the Local Planning Authority. The approved Statement shall be adhered to throughout the construction period. The Statement shall provide for:

(a) the parking of vehicles of site operatives and visitors

(b) loading and unloading of plant and materials

(c) storage of plant and materials used in constructing the development

(d) measures to keep access roads clear of vehicles

(e) routing restrictions

7. The office building hereby permitted shall not be brought into use until a parking area for 5 vehicles, including 1 disabled bay, has been provided in accordance with the approved plans and specifications. The approved parking area shall be properly consolidated and surfaced and the parking spaces marked out before the building is occupied/the use commences and thereafter it shall not be used except for the parking of vehicles in connection with the development hereby permitted.

8. The use hereby permitted shall not be commenced until secure parking facilities for bicycles have been provided in accordance with the approved plans and specifications. The approved facilities shall thereafter be permanently retained and kept available for the parking of bicycles at all times.

9. The office shall not be brought into use until a soft landscape scheme has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority showing details of all trees, hedgerows and other planting to be retained; finished ground levels; a planting specification to include numbers, density, size, species and positions of all new trees and shrubs; and a programme of implementation. The landscaping scheme shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details, specifications and programme of implementation. Trees, hedges and plants shown in the landscaping scheme to be retained or planted which, during the development works or a period of ten years following full implementation of the landscaping scheme, are removed without prior written consent from the Local Planning Authority or die, become seriously diseased or are damaged, shall be replaced in the first available planting season with others of such species and size as the Authority may specify.