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Agenda item
N/13/00244/FUL - 8 Willowbrook and Ashgrove House, Purton, SN5 4AG
Minutes:
Public Participation
Mr John Playfair spoke in objection to the application.
Mrs Barbara Kersey spoke in objection to the application.
Mr Mark Beggs spoke in objection to the application.
Mr Simon Chambers spoke in favour of the application.
Councillor Geoff Greenaway spoke in objection to the application.
The area development manager presented a report which recommended permission be granted subject to conditions. The proposed development was for a physical expansion of the site, but not to increase staff or resident numbers, but to allow for single occupier rooms in accordance with the spaces currently permitted by Wiltshire Council. The access to the building and the use of the building were considered by officers to be acceptable.
The committee then had the opportunity to ask technical questions of the officer. There were no technical questions.
Members of the public then had the opportunity to address the committee with their views, as stated above.
The local councillor, Councillor Jacqui Lay, then spoke in objection to the application.
A discussion followed during which it was established no Section 106 agreements had been sought or offered and that the footway was used at present.
Resolved:
For Application N/13/00244/FUL
That planning permission be GRANTED for the following reason:
In accordance with paragraph 187 of the National Planning Policy Framework, Wiltshire Council has worked
proactively to secure this development to improve the environmental conditions of the area. The proposed
conversion is considered to be acceptable in the context of the surrounding area and would preserve the
character and appearance of this part of the Malmesbury Conservation Area. The property has been
marketed for a period of over 24 months without success and therefore the change of use is considered to
be acceptable in this instance and is in accord with policies C3 and H3 of the North Wiltshire Local Plan
2011.
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. 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
LPC/3142/1
Location Plan
LPC/3142/EX/1 – Existing Plan
LPC/3142/EX/2 – Existing Elevation
LPC/3142/2A – Proposed Site Layout
LPC/3142/3A – Proposed Ground Floor Plan
LPC/3142/4A – Proposed First Floor Plan
LPC/3142/5A – Proposed Elevations
Received 29.01.13
REASON: To ensure that the development is implemented as approved.
3. 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.
4. No part of the development hereby approved shall be first brought into use until the parking area shown
on the approved plan, LPC/3142/3A, has been consolidated, surfaced and laid out in accordance with the
approved details. The use of the car parking spaces shall only be for the use staff car parking. There shall
be no deliveries, visitor parking via this car parking space. This area shall be maintained and remain
available for this use at all times thereafter.
REASON: To ensure that adequate provision is made for parking within the site in the interests of highway
safety.
5. Pursuant to condition 4, no part of the development hereby approved shall be first brought into use until
details of a sign saying ‘Staff Parking Only’ has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local
Planning Authority. The sign shall be erected on site in a position agreed in writing with the Local Planning
Authority and shall be retained on site in perpetuity.
REASON – To ensure the parking spaces remain available for staff parking at all times.
6. The extension (building) hereby permitted shall not be occupied at any time other than for purposes
ancillary to the use of the site known as property known as Ashgrove House Nursing Home.
REASON: The additional accommodation is sited in a position where the Local Planning Authority, having
regard to the reasonable standards of residential amenity, access, and planning policies pertaining to the
area, would not permit a wholly separate / additional unit.
7. No development shall commence on site until a scheme for the discharge of surface water from the site
(including surface water from the access/driveway), incorporating sustainable drainage details, has been
submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The development shall not be first
brought into use until surface water drainage has been constructed in accordance with the approved
scheme.
REASON: To ensure that the development can be adequately drained.
Supporting documents: