Agenda item

PERMISSION

Description of application – Reconstruction of two storey office building previously destroyed by fire.

An email from Ward Member, Councillor Russell Mellor, had been received and circulated to Members.

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

“11.  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 operational works or changes of use permitted by Part 1, Part 2 or Part 3 of Schedule 2 of the 2015 Order (as amended), shall be erected or made without the prior approval in writing of the Local Planning Authority.

REASON:  In order to comply with Policies BE1 and BE11 of the Unitary Development Plan and in the interests of residential amenity.

12. The floorspace shown on the approved plan as Class B1 office shall only be used as Class B1 (Offices) and for no other purpose (including any other purpose in Class B1 of the Schedule to the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987 or in any provision equivalent to that Class in any statutory instrument revoking and re-enacting that Order with or without modification). There shall be no change of use whether allowed by the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987, the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 or any Order amending, revoking and re-enacting these Orders. ”

REASON: In order to comply with Policies BE1 and EMP2 of the Unitary Development Plan  and in order that the Council can consider any proposed change of use with regard to current planning policies to prevent any inappropriate use or substandard residential accommodation.”