Agenda item

PERMISSION

Description of application – Erection of timber cabin to rear of property RETROSPECTIVE.

Oral representations in objection to the application were received at the meeting.

The final sentence of the proposal set out on page 81 of the report was amended to read:- ‘There are two windows on the southern elevation.’.

Members having considered the report, objections and representations, RESOLVED that PERMISSION BE GRANTED as recommended, subject to the conditions set out in the report of the Chief Planner with condition 2 amended to read:-

‘2  The additional accommodation shall be used only by members of the household occupying the dwelling at 61 Murray Avenue for purposes incidental to the enjoyment of the dwelling and shall not be used as permanent or temporary sleeping accommodation and shall not be severed to form a self-contained unit.

Reason: In order to comply with Policy H8 of the Unitary Development Plan and to ensure that the accommodation is not used separately and unassociated with the main dwelling and so as to prevent an unsatisfactory sub-division into two dwellings.’.

A further 2 conditions were added as follows:-

3  Notwithstanding the provisions of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015 (or any Order amending, revoking and re-enacting this Order) no building, structure or alteration permitted by Class E of Part 1 of Schedule 2 of the 2015 Order (as amended), shall be erected or made within the curtilage of the dwelling without the prior approval in writing of the Local Planning Authority.

Reason: In order to prevent an overdevelopment of the site and to assess any future impact in terms of neighbouring amenity in order to comply with Policy BE1 of the Unitary Development Plan (2006).

4  Within three months of the decision, a scheme of landscaping to include screen planting shall be submitted to the Local Planning Authority for approval.  The landscaping shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details in the first planting season following approval.  Any trees or plants which within a period of five years from the implementation of the landscaping scheme die, are removed or become seriously damaged or diseased shall be replaced within 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 in the interest of the amenities of the adjacent properties.