Agenda item

PERMISSION

Description of application – Single storey detached building in rear garden. Temporary use as habitable accommodation during building works to main dwelling, then for ancillary use to main dwelling RETROSPECTIVE.

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

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 four further conditions to read:-

“4.  Within 3 months of the date of the decision notice, the two windows (within the outbuilding hereby permitted) located closest to the boundary with No. 29 Birchwood Road, shall be obscured to Pilkington level 3 and these shall subsequently be permanently retained thereafter.

REASON: In the interest of the amenities of the adjacent properties and in order to comply with Policy BE1 of the Unitary Development Plan (2006).

2.  Details of boundary screening to the Southern, Eastern and Western neighbouring properties shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority within 3 months of the date of this decision, and this shall subsequently be implemented fully in accordance with the approved plans no later than 5 months from the date of the decision notice and shall be permanently retained thereafter.  If the screening agreed by the Local Planning Authority includes 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 within the next planting season with others of similar size and species to those originally planted.

REASON: In the interest of the amenities of the adjacent properties and in order to comply with Policy BE1 of the Unitary Development Plan (2006).

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 A, B, C, or E of Part 1 of Schedule 2 of the 2015 Order (as amended), shall be erected or made within the curtilage(s) of the dwelling(s) 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 UDP.

4.  No utilities shall be installed to the outbuilding hereby permitted without the prior approval in writing of the Local Planning Authority.

REASON: In the interest of the amenities of the area, and to accord with Policy BE1 of the Unitary Development Plan.”