Agenda item

PERMISSION

Description of application – Change of use from operational railway land to commercial car park providing 47 car parking spaces and 13 lighting columns.

Oral representations in support of the application, on behalf of the Chislehurst Society and The Alliance of British Drivers, were received at the meeting. It was reported that the entire application site was within the Chislehurst Conservation Area.

Members having considered the report, objections and representations, RESOLVED THAT PERMISSION BE GRANTED subject to the following conditions:-

 “1.  The development to which this permission relates must be begun not later than the expiration of 3 years, beginning with the date of this decision notice.

REASON: Section 91, Town and Country Planning Act 1990.

2.  Details of a scheme of landscaping, which shall include the materials of paved areas and other hard surfaces, shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority before the commencement of the development hereby permitted.  The approved scheme shall be implemented in the first planting season following the first occupation of the buildings or the substantial completion of the development, whichever is the sooner.  Any trees or plants which within a period of 5 years from the substantial 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 to those originally planted.

REASON:  In order to comply with Policy BE1 of the Unitary Development Plan and to secure a visually satisfactory setting for the development.

3.  Before any part of the development hereby permitted is first occupied boundary enclosures of a height and type to be approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority shall be erected in such positions along the boundaries of the site(s) as shall be approved and shall be permanently retained thereafter.

REASON:  In order to comply with Policy BE1 of the Unitary Development Plan and in the interest of visual amenity and the amenities of adjacent properties.

4.  No demolition, site clearance or building works shall be undertaken, and no equipment, plant, machinery or materials for the purposes of development shall be taken onto the site until an arboricultural method statement detailing the measures to be taken to construct the development and protect trees is submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

  The statement shall include details of:

·  Type and siting of protective fencing, and maintenance of protective fencing for the duration of project;

·  Type and siting of scaffolding (if required);

·  Details of the method and timing of demolition, site clearance and building works

·  Depth, extent and means of excavation of foundations and details of method of construction of new foundations

·  Location of site facilities (if required), and location of storage areas for materials, structures, machinery, equipment or spoil, and mixing of cement or concrete;

·  Location of bonfire site (if required);

·  Details of the location of underground services avoiding locating them within the protected zone

·  Details of the method to be used for the removal of existing hard surfacing within the protected zone 

·  Details of the nature and installation of any new surfacing within the protected zone

·  Methods proposed for the watering of the trees during the course of the project 

The method statement shall be implemented according to the details contained therein until completion of building works, and all plant, machinery or materials for the purposes of development have been removed from the site.

REASON:  To ensure that all existing trees to be retained are adequately protected and to comply with Policy NE7 of the Unitary Development Plan.

5.  The applicant shall at his own expense instruct an arboricultural consultant, approved by the Council in writing to liaise with the developer and/or his architect or engineer to approve details of construction methods, oversee the works and report to the Council throughout the period of the works in so far as the works may affect trees within the site. Works shall not commence on site until a consultant has been appointed.  After commencement of the project, all persons employed or engaged on the project shall immediately comply with any reasonable instruction, advice or request given or made by the arboricultural consultant in respect of works in so far as they relate or affect trees within the site, including an instruction to cease work if the arboricultural consultant considers that works have deviated from the agreed working methods and in these circumstances works shall not recommence until or unless written authority has been given by the Council or the arboricultural consultant that such works may recommence.

REASON: To ensure that works are carried out according to good arboricultural practice and in the interests of the health and amenity of the trees to be retained around the perimeter of the site and to comply with Policy NE7 of the Unitary Development Plan.

6.  Samples of all external materials, including roof cladding, wall facing materials and cladding, window glass, door and window frames, decorative features, rainwater goods and paving where appropriate, shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority before any work is commenced. The development shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details.

REASON: In order to comply with Policy BE1 of the Unitary Development Plan and in the interest of the appearance of the building and the visual amenities of the area.

7.  Before any work is commenced details of parking spaces and/or garages and sufficient turning space shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority and such provision shall be completed before the commencement of the use of the land or building hereby permitted and shall thereafter be kept available for such use.  No development whether permitted by the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development Order) 1995 (or any Order amending, revoking and re-enacting this Order) or not, shall be carried out on the land or garages indicated or in such a position as to preclude vehicular access to the said land or garages. 

REASON: In order to comply with Policy T3 of the Unitary Development Plan and to avoid development without adequate parking or garage provision, which is likely to lead to parking inconvenient to other road users and would be detrimental to amenities and prejudicial to road safety.

8.  While the development hereby permitted is being carried out a suitable hardstanding shall be provided with wash-down facilities for cleaning the wheels of vehicles and any accidental accumulation of mud of the highway caused by such vehicles shall be removed without delay and in no circumstances be left behind at the end of the working day.

REASON:  In the interest of pedestrian and vehicular safety and in order to comply with Policy T18 of the Unitary Development Plan.

9.  Details of a scheme to light the access drive and car parking areas hereby permitted shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority before the development hereby permitted is commenced. The approved scheme shall be self-certified to accord with BS 5489 - 1:2003 and be implemented before the development is first occupied and the lighting shall be permanently retained thereafter.

REASON: In order to comply with Policy T3 and Appendix II of the Unitary Development Plan in the interest of visual amenity and the safety of occupiers of and visitors to the development.

10.  Whilst the development hereby permitted is being carried out, provision shall be made to accommodate operatives and construction vehicles off-loading, parking and turning within the site in accordance with details to be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority and such provision shall remain available for such uses to the satisfaction of the Local Planning Authority throughout the course of development.

REASON: In the interests of pedestrian and vehicular safety and the amenities of the area and to accord with Policy T18 of the Unitary Development Plan.

11.  Details of a scheme for the management of the car park shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority before any part of the development is first occupied and the car park shall be operated in accordance with the approved scheme at all times unless previously agreed in writing by the Authority.

REASON: In order to comply with Policy T3 of the Unitary Development Plan and to avoid development without adequate parking or garage provision, which is likely to lead to parking inconvenient to other road users and would be detrimental to amenities and prejudicial to road safety.

12.  Surface water from private land shall not discharge on to the highway. Details of the drainage system for surface water drainage to prevent the discharge of surface water from private land on to the highway shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority prior to commencement of works. Before any part of the development hereby permitted is first occupied, the drainage system shall be completed in accordance with the approved details and shall be retained permanently thereafter.

REASON: To ensure a satisfactory means of surface water drainage and to accord with Policy ER13 of the Unitary Development Plan.”

13.  No wall, fence or hedge on the front boundary shall exceed 1m in height, and these means of enclosure shall be permanently retained as such.

REASON: In order to comply with Policy T18 of the Unitary Development Plan and in the interest of pedestrian and vehicular safety.

INFORMATIVE:  You are advised to contact Network Rail concerning provision of new bus stop on the site frontage to Bickley Park Road.”