Issue - meetings

All Members stated that they had been lobbied.

The Committee considered the report of the Head of Planning and Development.

Mr Green, an objector, Mr Fowler, for the applicant, and Councillor Naghi (Visiting Member) (against) addressed the meeting.

RESOLVED:  That permission be granted subject to the conditions set out in the report with the amendment of conditions 2 and 8 and additional conditions and informative as follows:

Condition 2 (amended)

The development hereby permitted shall be carried out in accordance with the following approved plans: OS map Site Plan received 14/03/2014, Floor, Elevations and External Details and Roof Plans received 19/11/2014.

Reason:  To ensure the quality of the development is maintained and to prevent harm to amenity.

Condition 8 (amended)

The development shall not commence until specific details of proposed landscaping, including species, locations, and sizes, which shall use indigenous species, and include indications of all existing trees and hedgerows on the land to be retained and a programme for the approved scheme’s implementation and long term management, has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  The landscape scheme shall be designed using the principles established in the Council's adopted Landscape Character Assessment and Landscape Guidelines and shall include the following details:

(i)  The use of a low wall and hedgerow to the frontage of the site.

The approved landscaping scheme shall be implemented in full prior to the first occupation of the dwelling or in the first planting season after the occupation of the dwelling.

Reason:  In the interest of visual amenity of the area.

Additional Conditions

The flat-roofed areas shall not be used as an amenity area or balcony.

Reason:  To safeguard the privacy of neighbouring occupiers.

The development shall not commence until details of swift bricks (including their location)  to be incorporated into the development have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority, and the development shall be completed in accordance with the approved details.

Reason:  In the interests of biodiversity.

Additional Informative

Deliveries during the construction period should take place after 9.00 a.m.

Voting:  10 – For  2 – Against  0 – Abstentions