Agenda item

PERMISSION

Description of application – Demolition of existing bungalow and erection of a three storey pair of semidetached dwellings with accommodation in roof space (RETROSPECTIVE APPLICATION).

Oral representations in support of the application were received at the meeting.  An email with photographs from the applicant had been received and circulated to Members.

Ward Member, Councillor Terry, had visited the site and supported the application. 

(The statement above was amended at the following Plans 3 Sub-Committee meeting on 14 February 2019 to read:-  ‘Ward Member Councillor Terry, visited the site and supported the conditions recommended by the officers.  He considered that on balance, permission was the best way forward.’

In regard to the retrospective element of this application, Councillor Terry had asked the applicant to orally confirm his awareness of the conditions and informatives in the report.’)

Members having considered the report, objections and representations, 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 1 and the addition of two further conditions to read:-

“1.  The approved landscaping scheme approved under ref. 17/00988 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 10 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.

14. 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 buildings, structures, alterations, walls or fences of any kind 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.

15. No subdivision of the proposed dwellings hereby permitted to create additional units shall be carried out 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.”