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17/502967 -Lake House, Church Road, Harrietsham
Meeting: 28/09/2017 - Planning Committee (Item 208)
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Minutes:
The Chairman and Councillors Powell and Prendergast stated that they had been lobbied.
The Committee considered the report of the Head of Planning and Development.
Councillor Stanley of Harrietsham Parish Council addressed the meeting.
RESOLVED:
1. That permission be granted subject to the conditions and informative set out in the report with the amendment of condition 7 (biodiversity) and additional landscaping conditions as follows:
Condition 7 (amended)
No development shall take place (including ground works and vegetation clearance) until details of how the development will protect and enhance biodiversity are submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority. These shall include but not be limited to the following: protective measures for reptiles and breeding birds, bird/bat nesting boxes integral to the structure of the building and within the site, retention of cordwood from trees felled within the landscape scheme, plus wildlife friendly drainage measures. The approved measures shall be installed prior to occupation and retained thereafter.
Reason: To enhance and protect biodiversity.
Additional Landscaping Conditions
The development hereby approved shall not commence above slab level until a landscape scheme designed in accordance with the principles of the Council’s landscape character guidance has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The scheme shall show all existing trees, hedges and blocks of landscaping on, and immediately adjacent to, the site and indicate whether they are to be retained or removed. The submitted scheme shall also include the long term retention of existing boundary vegetation, additional native planting to maximise biodiversity value, a planting specification, a programme of implementation and a five year management plan.
Reason: To ensure a satisfactory setting and external appearance to the development.
All planting, seeding or turfing comprised in the approved details of landscaping shall be carried out in the first planting and seeding seasons following the first occupation of the building hereby permitted or the completion of the development, whichever is the sooner; and any trees or plants which within a period of five years from the 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, unless the Local Planning Authority gives written consent to any variation.
Reason: To ensure a satisfactory setting and external appearance to the development.
2. That the detailed landscaping scheme is to be approved in consultation with Ward Members, representatives of the Parish Council and the Political Group Spokespersons of the Planning Committee.
Voting: 6 – For 4 – Against 1 – Abstention