Meeting documents

SSDC Area North Committee
Wednesday, 24th January, 2018 2.00 pm

  • Meeting of Area North Committee, Wednesday 24th January 2018 2.00 pm (Item 113.)

Minutes:

Proposal: The erection of a new single storey dwelling and garage.

 

The Planning officer presented the application as detailed in the agenda report, noting that the principle of development was accepted. The main issues were regarding the visual impact of the proposal.

 

Ms G Farnworth-Smith, spoke on behalf of her partner who was the applicant. She noted they had lived in the village for 12 years and were well integrated into the community. They wished to remain in the community as they got older, but their current house had become too large for their needs and was becoming increasingly difficult for them to manage. The application site was adjacent to their current home, vacant, and too small to farm. The parish council supported the proposal and there had been positive encouragement from neighbours.

 

Ms L Dunne, agent, commented that the proposed bungalow had been designed so the applicant could downsize. No objections had been raised but the application was recommended for refusal based on certain policies. She considered that School Street was not a totally linear development and so the proposal was not at odds with the settlement character, nor would it intrude into open countryside, as only one boundary adjoined open fields.

 

Ward member, Councillor Tiffany Osborne, noted much had already been said by the applicant and agent, and she was slightly at a loss as to why the application was recommended for refusal. She did not feel the proposal would be an erosion of the local setting or into open countryside, but would conclude the cul-de-sac development. She proposed approving the application on the grounds that it would not have any detrimental impact or be against policy.

 

During a short discussion, the officer responded to points of detail about the access track and the decision of a previous appeal. He advised members, that as they appeared minded to approve the application, there would need to be conditions for time limit, approved plans, materials, access, surfacing, parking and landscaping.

 

On being put to the vote the proposal to approve the application, subject to the conditions as suggested by the officer, was carried unanimously.

 

RESOLVED:

That planning application 17/03951/FUL be APPROVED, contrary to the officer recommendation, subject to the following:

 

Justification:

 

The proposal, by reason of its siting, design and appearance, represents a form of development that respects the established character and appearance of the locality, in accordance policies SD1, EQ2 and EQ3 of the South Somerset Local Plan (2006-28) and aims and objectives of the National Planning Policy

Framework.

 

Subject to the following conditions:

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: '6717-01' and '6717-02', received 29th September 2017.

 

Reason: For the avoidance of doubt as to the development authorised and in the interests of proper planning.

 

03.   No work shall commence in respect to the construction of the external walls and roof unless particulars of materials (including the provision of samples) to be used for these external surfaces of the development hereby approved have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

 

Reason: In the interests of visual amenity, in accordance with policies EQ2 and EQ3 of the South Somerset Local Plan (2006-2028) and the provisions of chapters 7 and 12 of the National Planning Policy Framework.

 

04.   The areas allocated for parking and turning on the approved plans (including the spaces indicated within the garage hereby approved), shall be kept clear of obstruction at all times and shall not be used other than for the parking and turning of vehicles in connection with the development hereby permitted.

 

Reason: In the interests of highway safety, in accordance with policies TA5 and TA6 of the South Somerset Local Plan (2006-2028) and the provisions of chapter 4 of the National Planning Policy Framework.

 

05.   The proposed access over the first 6.0m of its length, as measured from the edge of the adjoining carriageway at the end of Old Stream Farm, shall be properly consolidated and surfaced in accordance with details that shall be submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority. Such approved details shall be carried out prior to the dwelling hereby approved being first occupied and maintained thereafter.

 

Reason: In the interests of highway safety, in accordance with policy TA5 of the South Somerset Local Plan (2006-2028) and the provisions of chapter 4 of the National Planning Policy Framework.

 

06.   A scheme of landscaping shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The landscaping scheme 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 after the development hereby permitted is first brought into use; 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 policy EQ2 of the South Somerset Local Plan 2006 and the provisions of chapters 7 and 11 of the National Planning Policy Framework.

 

Informatives:

 

01. Please be advised that approval of this application by South Somerset District Council will attract a liability payment under the Community Infrastructure Levy. CIL is a mandatory financial charge on development and you will be notified of the amount of CIL being charged on this development in a CIL Liability Notice.

 

(Voting: Unanimous in favour of approval)

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