Agenda item

PERMISSION

Description of application – Conversion of existing dwellinghouse to provide 1 one bedroom and 1 two bedroom flats with associated amenity space and parking with extended crossover.

Members having considered the report and objections, RESOLVED that PERMISSION be GRANTED as recommended, subject to the conditions and informatives set out in the report of the Chief Planner with an amendment to Condition 4 to read:-

“4.  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 scheme shall include information regarding the impact of the proposed rear boundary parking area on the existing tree to the rear flank boundary, detailing mitigation measures to protect the tree or the planting of a replacement tree if applicable. 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.”