Agenda item

APP/12/00289 Vacant School, NEW HEY ROAD, WOODCHURCH, Residential development comprising 155no. residential dwellings at land of the former St Benedicts School, New Hey Road Woodchurch

Minutes:

With the agreement of the Chair prior to the meeting the Director of Regeneration, Housing and Planning submitted the above application for consideration.

 

On a motion by Councillor Elderton and seconded by Councillor Johnson it was;

 

Resolved (10:0) That the application be approved subject to a 106 agreement and the following conditions:

 

1. The development shall not begin until a scheme for the provision of affordable housing as part of the development has been submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority. The affordable housing shall be provided and retained, unless otherwise agreed in writing with the Local Planning Authority in accordance with the approved scheme. The scheme shall include:

 

a) The numbers, type, tenure and location of the site of the affordable housing provision to be made:

b) The timing of construction of the affordable housing;

c) The occupancy criteria to be used for determining the identity of prospective and successive occupiers of the affordable housing and the means by which such occupancy can be enforced.

 

2. Before any construction commences, samples of the facing/roofing/window materials to be used in the external construction of this development shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The approved materials shall then be used in the construction of the development.

 

3. No development shall be commenced until full details of soft and hard landscaping have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The landscaping scheme shall detail the locations, species and heights of all existing and proposed trees, shrubs and hedge planting and all existing and proposed grassed and hard surfaced areas and any other natural or proposed features.

 

4. Any trees or shrubs removed, dying, being severely damaged or becoming seriously diseased within five years from the completion of the scheme shall be replaced by trees or shrubs of a similar size and species to those originally required to be planted unless otherwise approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

 

5. All hard and soft landscape works shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details as set out in Condition 3. The works shall be carried out in accordance with a programme to be agreed with the Local Planning Authority.

 

6. Before the development hereby permitted is first commenced, a datum for measuring land levels shall be agreed in writing. Full details of existing and proposed ground levels and proposed finished floor levels shall be taken from that datum and submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority, notwithstanding any such detail shown on previously submitted plan(s). The development shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details and retained as such thereafter.

 

7. No development shall take place until details of any gates, walls and fences to be erected as part of the proposed development have been submitted to and approved by Local Planning Authority. Any gates, walls and fences comprised in the approved details shall be erected prior to the commencement of the development.

 

8. Details of the proposed windows shall be submitted to and agreed in writing with the Local Planning Authority before the commencement of the development. The development shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details and retained as such thereafter.

 

9. Development shall not commence until a scheme for the provision of cycle parking has been submitted to and agreed in writing by the local planning authority. The cycle parking facility shall be erected in accordance with the approved details prior to the occupation of the development hereby approved and retained as such thereafter.

 

10. Notwithstanding the provisions of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995 (or any order revoking and re-enacting that order with or without modification) the enlargement, of the dwelling(s) or any addition to the roof or the erection or construction of a porch shall not be carried out.

 

11. The development hereby permitted shall not be commenced until such times as a scheme for the provision and implementation of a surface water regulation system has been submitted to, and approved in writing by, the Local Planning Authority. Prior to the submission of those details, an assessment shall be carried out into the potential for disposing of surface water by means of Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) and the results of the assessment provided to the Local Planning Authority.

 

12. Before development hereby approved commences, further details of the boundary treatment to those properties closest to the site boundaries shall be submitted to and agreed in writing by the local planning authority. The proposed boundary shall be constructed either 2m in height of close boarded fencing to an enhanced specification or to a brick finish. The development shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details and shall be retained as such thereafter.

 

13. Before development commences a Residential Travel Plan will be submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority. The provisions of the Travel Plan shall be implemented and operated in accordance with the Residential Travel Plan and shall not

be varied other than through agreement with the local planning authority.

 

For the avoidance of doubt, such a plan shall include:

 

• Access to employment, shopping and leisure from the site by residents

• Information on existing transport services to the site and travel patterns;

• Travel Plan principles including measures to promote and facilitate more sustainable

transport;

• Realistic targets for modal split;

• Identification of a Travel Plan co-ordinator and the establishment of a travel plan

steering group;

• Measures and resource allocation to promote the Residential Travel Plan; and

• Mechanisms for monitoring and reviewing the Residential Travel Plan, including the

submission of an annual review and action plan to the local planning authority.

 

14. The development hereby permitted shall not be commenced until such time as a scheme for the management of overland flow from surcharging of the site's surface water drainage system has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The scheme shall include details of the proposed ground levels and proposed building finished floor levels.

 

15. The development hereby permitted shall not be commenced until such time as a scheme for the management of overland flow from surcharging of the site's surface water drainage system has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The scheme shall include details of the proposed ground levels and proposed building finished floor levels.

 

16. No development approved by this planning permission (or such other date or stage in development as may be agreed in writing with the Local Planning Authority), shall take place until a scheme that includes the following components to deal with the risks associated with contamination of the site shall each be submitted to and approved, in writing, by the local planning authority:

 

a) A preliminary risk assessment which has identified:

•all previous uses

•potential contaminants associated with those uses

•a conceptual model of the site indicating sources, pathways and receptors

•potentially unacceptable risks arising from contamination at the site.

 

b) A site investigation scheme, based on (1) to provide information for a detailed assessment of the risk to all receptors that may be affected, including those off site.

 

c) The results of the site investigation and detailed risk assessment referred to in (2) and, based on these, an options appraisal and remediation strategy giving full details of the remediation measures required and how they are to be undertaken.

 

d) A verification plan providing details of the data that will be collected in order to demonstrate that the works set out in the remediation strategy in (3) are complete and identifying any requirements for longer-term monitoring of pollutant linkages, maintenance and arrangements for contingency action.

Any changes to these components require the express written consent of the local planning authority. The scheme shall be implemented as approved.

 

17. No occupation of any part of the permitted development shall take place until a verification report demonstrating completion of works set out in the approved remediation strategy and the effectiveness of the remediation shall be submitted to and approved, in writing, by the local planning authority. The report shall include results of sampling and monitoring carried out in accordance with the approved verification plan to demonstrate that the site remediation criteria have been met. It shall also include any plan (a "long-term monitoring and maintenance plan") for longer-term monitoring of pollutant linkages, maintenance and arrangements for contingency action, as identified in the verification plan. The long-term monitoring and maintenance plan shall be implemented as approved.

 

18. If, during development, contamination not previously identified is found to be present at the site then no further development (unless otherwise agreed in writing with the local planning authority) shall be carried out until the developer has submitted a remediation strategy to the local planning authority detailing how this unsuspected contamination shall be dealt with and obtained written approval from the local planning authority. The remediation strategy shall be implemented as approved.

 

19. Construction of the development authorised by this permission shall not begin until the local planning authority has approved in writing a full scheme of works for the construction of new highway and amendment of existing highway made necessary by this development, including all traffic signs, road markings and tactile paving and including vehicle access onto New Hey Road. The approved works shall be completed in accordance with the local planning authority's written approval and in accordance with a written timetable to be agreed with the local planning authority prior to commencement of construction and retained as such thereafter.