Agenda item

Cllr Dave Wingrove, Ashton Keynes Parish Council spoke in objection to the application.

The Planning Officer introduced the report which recommended that planning permission be granted subject to conditions. The application was for the erection of a car restoration workshop and showroom extension, the location of the site and its existing access was shown. The Committee was advised that an alternative access would be needed to ensure safety. 

The Committee then had the opportunity to ask technical questions and it was confirmed that Cox’s Hill was a rural 40mph road where vehicles could pass side by side.

Members of the public then addressed the Committee as detailed above.

The Planning Officer responded to comments from the public, explaining that moving a 7.5 tonne weight limit to ensure that Heavy Goods Vehicles would not drive through the village centre would require a Traffic Regulation Order, this could not be controlled by a condition. The officer highlighted that this would have been recommended by the Highways Officer if it was considered necessary.

The local member, Cllr Berry, questioned whether current access to the site could be altered with restrictions dealing with entry and exit of vehicles and suggested local views be given more consideration.

In the debate that followed, councillors discussed the current and proposed access to the site developed by Highways officers and agreed that, should permission be granted, an informative be included with a recommendation from the Committee for interested parties to investigate and consider proposals for alterations to the location and extent of the weight limit restriction on Cox's Hill via the Community Area Transport Group (CATG) in order to reduce the number of vehicles going through the village.

Resolved:

To GRANT planning permission subject to the following conditions:

1.     (WA1) 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.     (WM13)The development hereby permitted shall be carried out in accordance with the following approved plans:

DAS

14340-5

14340-4

14340-3

14340-1

Received 12.08.14

Site location plan – received 17.10.14

14340-2 Rev B – received 23.10.14

REASON: For the avoidance of doubt and in the interests of proper planning.

3.     (WD11) No development shall commence on site until details of the stopping up of all existing accesses, both pedestrian and vehicular, have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. That stopping up shall take place in accordance with the approved details within one month of the first occupation of the development. No later than one month after the first occupation of the development, the sole means of vehicular and pedestrian access to the development shall be as shown on the plans hereby approved.

REASON: In the interests of highway safety.

4.     (WD17) No development shall commence on site until visibility splays have been provided between the edge of the carriageway and a line extending from a point 2.4 metres back from the edge of the carriageway, measured along the centre line of the access, to the points on the edge of the carriageway 90 metres to the north direction and 120 metres to the south direction from the centre of the access in accordance with the approved plans ‘Proposed Block Plan’ numbered 14340-2 Rev B. Such splays shall thereafter be permanently maintained free from obstruction to vision above a height of 1m above the level of the adjacent carriageway. In order that the visibility splay is achieved I require that 1m beyond the back of the splay is suitably trimmed and cut back, in order seasonal growth does not obstruct. This will require the hedge line to be suitably set back.

REASON: In the interests of highway safety.

5.     (WD20) No part of the development hereby approved shall be first brought into use until the parking area shown on the approved plans has been consolidated, surfaced and laid out in accordance with the approved details. 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.

6.     (WG2) No development shall commence on site until a scheme for the discharge of surface water from the site access to prevent discharge onto the highway 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.     (WD13) No development shall commence until details of a consolidated and surfaced vehicle turning space has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. No part of the development shall be first brought into use until that turning space has been completed in accordance with the approved details. Such turning space shall thereafter be retained and kept clear of obstruction at all times.

REASON: To enable vehicles to enter and leave the site in forward gear in the interests of highway safety.

8.     The car showroom shall be limited to the use of applicant only and shall be limited to the use stated in the application. The car showroom will not be a sales area and not open to the general public. Clients by appointment. The showroom shall be used to display restored vehicles prior to collection.

REASON: In the interests of residential amenity.

9.     The occupation of the site hereby permitted shall only be by the business operating as ‘AKVR’.

REASON: The proposed use is acceptable but the Local Planning Authority wish to consider any future proposal for occupiers which may have increased traffic movements, having regard to the circumstances of the case.

10.(WF11) The use hereby permitted shall only take place between the hours of Monday to Friday 0800-17:00 and 08:00-13:00 Saturday with no opening on Sundays and Bank or Public Holidays.

REASON: To ensure the retention of an environment free from intrusive levels of noise and activity in the interests of the amenity of the area.

11.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.

 INFORMATIVE: The Council recommends that interested parties, including the Applicant and Parish Council, investigate and consider proposals for alterations to the location and extent of the weight limit restriction on Cox's Hill via the Community Area Transport Group (CATG).