Agenda item

Description of application – Change of use of office building from Class B1(a) office to Class C3 dwelling house. to provide for 29 flats (56 day application for prior approval in respect of transport and highways, contamination and flooding risks under Class J Part 3 of the GPDO).

Oral representations in objection to and in support of the application were received at the meeting.  It was reported that photographs had been submitted and circulated to Members.

The application called for the Council to establish whether Prior Approval was required as to:

(a) transport and highways impacts on the development

(b) contamination risks on the site; and

(c) flooding risks on the site

Given the above, on balance it was considered that Prior Approval should be granted.

Members having considered the report, objections and representations, RESOLVED that PRIOR APPROVAL be GRANTED as recommended, subject to the following conditions:-

“1.  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 the National Planning Policy Framework, 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 and prejudicial to road safety.

2.  A scheme for protecting the proposed dwellings from railway noise, which shall include double glazing in windows, shall be submitted to and approved in writing by or on  behalf of the Local Planning Authority before development commences and the scheme shall be fully implemented before any of the dwellings are occupied and permanently retained as such thereafter.

REASON: In order to comply with Policies ER8 and BE1 of the Unitary Development Plan and to ensure a satisfactory standard of residential amenity.

3.  The access road adjacent to 2 Crest View Drive, Petts Wood,  shall be stopped up. Details of the revised layout, which it is suggested could potentially include an amenity area for local residents, shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority and the development shall be completed in complete accordance with the approved details and be permanently maintained as such thereafter.

REASON: In order to reduce the impact of the potential increased use of this access on the amenities of 2 Crest View Drive, Petts Wood, and in order to comply with Policies T18 and BE1 of the Unitary Development Plan.”