Agenda item

Public Participation

Mr John Braddell, applicant, spoke in support of the application.

Cllr Sue Fraser spoke in support of the application on behalf of Warminster Town Council.

The Area Development Manager outlined the report which recommended the application be granted planning permission. Key considerations of the committee were noted as being; West Wiltshire District Plan 1^st Alteration (2004) C31a – Design, C38 – Nuisance, E5 – Loss of employment floor space, H1 – Further Housing Development within towns, and T10 Car parking.

Members were then given the opportunity to ask technical questions of the application, to which there were none.

Members of the public were then given the opportunity to present their views to the Committee, as detailed above.

Members of the Committee then entered into a debate which centred around the loss of employment space in the workshop area. Members also discussed access to the neighbouring properties which was located adjacent to the building and would prove restrictive for large delivery vehicles and vans if windows were allowed to open widely. Members also raised concern over the workshop space, and the impact on the residential part of the building should the two contain separate users. Members debated a condition to fix the workshop to the residential occupier.

It was;

Resolved:

To GRANT planning permission for the application 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 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.

3.     The roof-lights to the east facing elevation shall be obscure glazed for the lifetime of the development

          REASON:  In the interests of residential amenity and privacy.

4.     No part of the development hereby permitted shall be first occupied until the access, turning area and parking spaces have been completed in accordance with the details shown on the approved plans. The areas shall be maintained for those purposes at all times thereafter.

          REASON: In the interest of highway safety

5.     The development hereby permitted shall not be first occupied until the first five metres of the site access, measured from the edge of the access track (Public Footpath 92), has been consolidated and surfaced (not loose stone or gravel). The access shall be maintained as such thereafter.

          REASON: In the interests of highway safety.

6.     No development shall commence on site until a scheme for the discharge of surface water from the site (including surface water from the access/parking/ turning area), incorporating sustainable drainage details, has been submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority. The development shall not be first occupied until surface water drainage has been constructed in accordance with the approved scheme.

REASON: To ensure that the development can be adequately drained.

7.     The development hereby permitted shall be carried out in accordance with the details shown on the submitted plans:

          790/1 received on 2 September 2013;

          790/2 received on 2 September 2013;

          790/3 received on 2 September 2013;

REASON: To ensure that the development is carried out in accordance with the approved plans that have been judged to be acceptable by the local planning authority.

8.     The attached workshop to be occupied by residential occupants only.

REASON: To safeguard the residential occupants’ amenity.

Informative:

All public rights must be safeguarded in respect of Public Footpath 92 which is directly affected by the vehicular access leading to the site.