PERMISSION

Description of application - Change of use of ground floor retail unit (Use Class A1) to day nursery (Use Class D1) comprising elevational alterations, pick up/drop off parking bays and landscaping.

Oral representations in support of the application were received at the meeting.

It was reported that a further 40 letters in support and 13 letters in objection to the application had been received.

The Planning Officer advised that a condition requiring the submission of a Management Plan could be added if Members were minded to permit the application.

Members having considered the report, objections and representations, RESOLVED that PERMISSION BE GRANTED as recommended, subject to the conditions and informative set out in the report of the Chief Planner with the addition of a further condition to read:-

'13  Prior to the commencement of the use hereby permitted, a Management Plan shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  The Plan should include measures to manage the times of arrival and departure of children to and from the premises.  The Management Plan shall be implemented in accordance with the agreed timescale and details.

Reason: In order to ensure appropriate management of pedestrian and vehicular traffic to and from the development and to accord with Policy T18 of the Unitary Development Plan.