Agenda item

The Planning Officer introduced the report which recommended that planning permission be granted subject to conditions. The main issue was noted to be the principle of development and impact on amenity. It was stressed the main extension had already been approved, and that it was the additional expansion of that extension which was to be decided. It was noted that the application had been altered since submission.

 

Members then had the opportunity to ask technical questions of the officers.

 

The Local Member, Cllr Jane Scott, then spoke regarding the confusion arising from the application, and noted that building work had already begun on the site.

 

A debate followed, wherein the need to vary conditions as a result of work having already started was discussed.

It was,

 

Resolved:

 

To DELEGATE to the Area Development Manager for APPROVAL

 

Subject to the following conditions:

 

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

 

REASON:  To comply with the provisions of Section 91 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 as amended by the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004.

 

2. No further development shall commence on site until details and samples of the materials to be used for the external walls and roofs have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Development shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details.

 

REASON: In the interests of visual amenity and the character and appearance of the area.

 

POLICY: C3, NE4, HE1, HE4, H8

 

3. No further development shall commence on site until a sample wall panel, not less than 1 metre square, has been constructed on site, inspected and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  The panel shall then be left in position for comparison whilst the development is carried out.  Development shall be carried out in accordance with the approved sample.

 

REASON: In the interests of visual amenity and the character and appearance of the area.

 

POLICY: C3, NE4, HE1, HE4, H8

 

4. No further development shall commence on site until details of all eaves, verges, windows (including head, sill and window reveal details), doors, rainwater goods, chimneys, have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  Development shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details.

 

REASON: In the interests of visual amenity and the character and appearance of the area.

 

POLICY: C3, NE4, HE1, HE4, H8

 

5. No further development shall commence on site until details of the finish to external timber, including any paint or stain to be used on the external walls and window joinery have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Development shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details prior to the development being first brought into use / occupied.

 

REASON: In the interests of visual amenity and the character and appearance of the area.

 

POLICY: C3, NE4, HE1, HE4, H8

 

6. No retained tree shall be cut down, uprooted or destroyed, nor shall any retained tree be topped or lopped other than in accordance with the approved plans and particulars, without the prior written approval of the Local Planning Authority. Any topping or lopping approved shall be carried out in accordance with British Standard 3998 (Tree Work).

 

(a)  If any retained tree is removed, uprooted or destroyed or dies, another tree shall be planted at the same place and that tree shall be of such size and species and shall be planted at such time, as may be specified in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

 

(b)  No equipment, machinery or materials shall be brought on to the site for the purpose of the development, until a scheme showing the exact position of protective fencing to enclose all retained trees beyond the outer edge of the overhang of their branches in accordance with British Standard 5837 (2005): Trees in Relation to Construction, has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority, and; the protective fencing has been erected in accordance with the approved details. This fencing shall be maintained until all equipment, machinery and surplus materials have been removed from the site.  Nothing shall be stored or placed in any area fenced in accordance with this condition and the ground levels within those areas shall not be altered, nor shall any excavation be made, without the prior written consent of the Local Planning Authority.

 

In this condition “retained tree” means an existing tree which is to be retained in accordance with the approved plans and particulars; and paragraphs (a) and (b) above shall have effect until the expiration of five years from the first occupation or the completion of the development, whichever is the later.

 

REASON: To enable the Local Planning Authority to ensure the retention of trees on the site in the interests of visual amenity.

 

POLICY: C3, NE14

 

7. Notwithstanding the provisions of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995 (as amended by the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Amendment) (No.2) (England) Order 2008 (or any Order revoking or re-enacting or amending that Order with or without modification), no window, dormer window or rooflight, other than those shown on the approved plans, shall be inserted in the roofslope(s) of the development hereby permitted.

 

REASON:  In the interests of residential amenity and privacy.

 

POLICY: C3, NE4, HE1, HE4, H8

 

8. Before the development hereby permitted is first occupied, the first floor gable end window on the north elevation shall be glazed with obscure glass only and the window permanently maintained with obscure glazing at all times thereafter.

 

REASON: In the interests of residential amenity and privacy. 

 

POLICY: C3 and H8

 

9. The granny annexe here by permitted shall not be occupied at any time other than for the purposes ancillary to the residential use of the dwelling known as The Old Hall, The Street Grittleton Wiltshire.

 

REASON: The additional accommodation is sited in a position where the Local Planning Authority having regard to reasonable standards of residential amenity, access and planning policies pertaining to this area would not permit a wholly separate dwelling. 

 

POLICY: C3 NE4, HE1, HE4 H8

 

 

 

10. The development hereby permitted shall be implemented in accordance with the submitted plans and documents listed below. No variation from the approved plans should be made without the prior approval of the local planning authority. Amendments may require the submission of a further application.

 

Plans

 

DJR/NG/100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105/B, 106, 107 and 108/A all dated 21^st March 2012

 

REASON: To ensure that the development is implemented as approved

 

Informative:

 

It has come to the Council’s attention that development has commenced on the site in breach of the discharge of conditions attached to 11//02918FUL, hence the necessity for the conditions to be worded as outlined above.

 

Further, the Council will consider the issue of a temporary stop notice unless an application is submitted within the next 10 days for their discharge.