Meeting documents

RESOLVED:

That planning application 14/05217/FUL be APPROVED as per the officer recommendation.

Justification

The proposed dwelling represents an appropriate and sustainable form of development which will contribute to the council's housing supply without demonstrable harm to visual or residential amenity or being prejudicial to highway safety and therefore accords with the aims and objectives of the National Planning Policy Framework and saved policies ST5, ST6 and EC3 of the South Somerset Local Plan.

SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING:

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

       Reason:  To accord with the provisions of section 91(1) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.

02.  The development hereby permitted shall be carried out in accordance with the following approved plans drawings numbered F1223/001A, F1223-100C, F1223-101C, F1223-150C and F1223-151A.

       Reason: For the avoidance of doubt and in the interests of proper planning.

03.  No works shall be carried out unless particulars of the following have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority;

a)    particulars of the materials (including the provision of samples where appropriate) to be used for all external walls, roofs and chimneys;

b)    full details of all new walls and boundary walls, including the materials, coursing, bonding, mortar profile, colour and texture, to be provided in the form of a sample panel to be made available on site;

c)    details of the recess, design, materials and external finish for all external doors, windows, boarding and openings, including detailed sectional drawings where appropriate;

d)    details of lintels to all external openings;

e)    details of all roof eaves, verges and abutments, including detailed section drawings, and all new guttering, down pipes and other rainwater goods, and external plumbing;

f)     details of all gates, fences and the surface material for the parking and turning area.

Reason: In the interest of visual amenity to accord with Policy ST6 of the South Somerset Local Plan.

04.  The development hereby permitted shall not be commenced until there has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority a scheme of landscaping, which shall include indications of all existing trees and hedgerows on the land, and details of any to be retained, together with measures for their protection in the course of the development, as well as details of any changes proposed in existing ground levels. All planting, seeding, turfing or earth moulding comprised in the approved details of landscaping shall be carried out in the first planting and seeding season following the occupation of the building or the completion of the development, whichever is the sooner; 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 similar size and species, unless the Local Planning Authority gives written consent to any variation.

       Reason: In the interests of visual amenity in accordance with Policies ST5 and ST6 of the South Somerset Local Plan.

05.  The development hereby permitted shall not be commenced unless details of the internal ground floor levels of the dwellings hereby permitted have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The development shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details.

       Reason: In the interests of visual amenity in accordance with Policies ST5 and ST6 of the South Somerset Local Plan.

06.  There shall be no obstruction greater than 300mm above adjoining road level 4.0m back and parallel over the entire site frontage. Such visibility splays shall be fully provided before works commence on the development hereby permitted and shall thereafter be maintained at all times.

       Reason: In the interest of highway safety to accord with Policy ST5 of the South Somerset Local Plan.

07.  Before the dwellings hereby permitted are first occupied, the access over the first 5m of its length shall be properly consolidated and surfaced in tarmac, unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

       Reason: In the interests of highway safety and to comply with Policy ST5 of the South Somerset Local Plan.

08.  Before the dwelling is occupied and the access is first brought into use, provision shall be made within the site for the disposal of surface water so as to prevent its discharge onto any part of the highway, details of which shall have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority and thereafter maintained in this fashion at all times.

       Reason: In the interests of highway safety and to comply with Policy ST5 of the South Somerset Local Plan.

09.  The area allocated for parking and turning on the approved plans shall be kept clear of obstruction and shall not be used other than for parking and turning of vehicles in connection with the development hereby permitted.

       Reason: In the interest of highway safety to accord with Policy ST5 of the South Somerset Local Plan.

10.  Any entrance gates shall be hung to open inwards and set back a minimum distance of 5m from the highway at all times.

       Reason: In the interests of highway safety and to comply with Policy ST5 of the South Somerset Local Plan.

11.  Prior to the development hereby approved being first brought into use the first floor windows within the north elevations of the dwellings hereby permitted shall be fitted with obscure glass and shall be permanently retained and maintained in this fashion thereafter.

       Reason: In the interest of residential amenity to accord with Policy ST6 of the South Somerset Local Plan.

12.  Notwithstanding the provisions of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995 (or any order revoking and re-enacting that Order with or without modification), no additional windows, including dormer windows, or other openings (including doors) shall be formed above ground floor level within the north or south elevations of the dwellings hereby permitted without the prior express grant of planning permission.

       Reason: In the interest of residential amenity to accord with Policy ST6 of the South Somerset Local Plan.