Agenda item

PERMISSION

Description of application – 2 detached two storey 4 bedroom dwellings with integral garage and associated parking with vehicular access from Broad Walk, on land to the rear of St Margarets and The Brents, Chelsfield Lane, and adjacent to 14b Broad Walk (Outline).

Members having considered the report and objections, RESOLVED that PERMISSION be GRANTED as recommended, subject to the conditions set out in the report of the Chief Planner with an amendment to Condition 9 and two further conditions to read:-

“9. Details of arrangements for storage of refuse and recyclable materials and details of the position to present refuse for collection without obstructing the footway(including means of enclosure for the area concerned where necessary) shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority before any part of the development hereby permitted is commenced and the approved arrangements shall be completed before any part of the development hereby permitted is first occupied, and permanently retained thereafter.

REASON: In order to comply with Policy BE1 of the Unitary Development Plan and in order to provide adequate refuse storage facilities in a location which is acceptable from the residential and visual amenity aspects and pedestrians and road users.

20. 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 change of use permitted by Class L of Part 3 of Schedule 2 of the 2015 Order (as amended), shall be made within the dwelling or its curtilage hereby permitted without the prior approval in writing of the Local Planning Authority.

REASON: In the interests of protecting the character of the area and residential amenity of neighbouring properties in accordance with Policy BE1 of the Unitary Development Plan.

21. The development shall be carried out in complete accordance with the recommendations of the approved Ecology Report (Cherryfield Ecology – dated 5/10/2017) and Reptile Survey (Cherryfield Ecology – dated 5/3/2018)

REASON: To comply with Policies NE4 and NE5 of the Unitary Development Plan and in the interest of wildlife and protected species.”