Meeting documents

RESOLVED:

That Planning Application No. 14/03945/FUL be APPROVED as per the Planning Officer’s recommendation for the following reason:

01.       Notwithstanding the local concerns, the provision of six local need houses would contribute to the council's housing supply without demonstrable harm to residential amenity, highway safety, ecology or visual amenity. As such the scheme is considered to comply with the saved polices ST3, ST5, ST6, ST10, EC3 and EC8 of the South Somerset Local Plan (2006) and the aims and objectives of the NPPF.

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: 0139-PP01, 0139-PP03, 0139-PP04, 0139-PP05 and 0139-PP06 received 2 September 2014; 0139-PP02 Rev A received 3 September 2014; and 0139-PP07 received 22 September 2014.

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

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

            a.         details of materials (including the provision of samples where appropriate) to be used for the external walls and roofs;

            b.         panels of brickwork and stonework shall be provided on site for inspection;

            c.         details of the recessing, materials and finish (including the provision of samples where appropriate) to be used for all new windows (including any rooflights) and doors;

            d.         particulars of all boundary treatments and hard surfacing materials. Such details shall include the use of porous materials to the parking and turning areas;

            e.         details of meter cupboards and gas boxes;

            f.          internal floor levels of the buildings;

            g.         foul and surface water drainage detail to serve the development.

            Once approved such details shall be fully implemented unless agreed otherwise in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

            Reason: To safeguard the character and appearance of the area in accordance with policies ST5 and ST6 of the South Somerset Local Plan 2006.

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: To safeguard the character and appearance of the area in accordance with policies ST5 and ST6 of the South Somerset Local Plan 2006.

05.       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), there shall be no extensions to these buildings without the prior express grant of planning permission.

            Reason: To ensure that the dwellings remain available as affordable units and to safeguard the character and appearance of the area in accordance with policies ST5 and ST6 of the South Somerset Local Plan 2006.

06.       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 dormer windows or other openings shall be formed within the roofs of these buildings without the prior express grant of planning permission.

            Reason: To ensure that the dwellings remain available as affordable units and to safeguard the character and appearance of the area in accordance with policies ST5 and ST6 of the South Somerset Local Plan 2006.

07.       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 fences, gates or walls shall be erected within the curtilage of any dwellinghouse forward of any wall of that dwellinghouse which fronts onto a road.

            Reason: To safeguard the character and appearance of the area in accordance with policies ST5 and ST6 of the South Somerset Local Plan 2006.

08.       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 garages/outbuildings shall be erected without prior express grant of planning permission.

            Reason: To safeguard the character and appearance of the area in accordance with policies ST5 and ST6 of the South Somerset Local Plan 2006.

09.       No street lighting will be permitted until surveys for bats, undertaken in the period May to September, have been completed and used to inform an impact assessment and the design of any lighting scheme.  Such information and details to be submitted to Local Planning Authority for approval. The development shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details and thereafter maintained as such.

            Reason: For the conservation and protection of species of biodiversity importance in accordance with NPPF, and of legally protected species in accordance with Policy EC8 of the South Somerset Local Plan, and to ensure compliance with the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 and The Habitats Regulations 2010.

10.       The proposed access shall be constructed in accordance with details shown on the submitted plan, drawing number 0139- PP02, and shall be available for use before occupation.  Once constructed the access shall be maintained thereafter in that condition at all times.

            Reason: In the interests of highway safety and in accordance with Policy ST5 of the South Somerset Local Plan (2006).

11.       The proposed estate roads, footways, footpaths, tactile paving,  verges, junctions, street lighting, sewers, drains, service routes, surface water outfall, vehicle overhang margins, embankments, visibility splays, accesses, carriageway gradients, drive gradients, car, motorcycle and cycle parking, and street furniture shall be constructed and laid out in accordance with details to be approved by the Local Planning Authority in writing before their construction begins.  For this purpose, plans and sections, indicating as appropriate, the design, layout, levels, gradients, materials and method of construction shall be submitted to the Local Planning Authority.

            Reason: In the interests of highway safety and in accordance with Policy ST5 of the South Somerset Local Plan (2006).

12.       The area allocated for parking on the submitted plan, drawing number 0139- PP02, shall be kept clear of obstruction at all times and shall not be used other than for the parking of vehicles in connection with the development hereby permitted.

            Reason: In the interests of highway safety and in accordance with Policy ST5 of the South Somerset Local Plan (2006).

Informatives:

01.       The applicant will be required to enter into a suitable legal agreement with the Highway Authority to secure the construction of the highway works necessary as part of this development. The developer should contact the Highway Authority to progress this agreement well in advance of commencement of development.

(Voting: Unanimous in favour)