Agenda item

APP/11/00964 - Five Oceans International Removers, 93 CHESTER STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 5DE - Demolition of existing buildings and erection of 28 apartments (extension of time 05/5224)

Minutes:

The Director of Regeneration, Housing and Planning submitted the above application for consideration:

 

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

 

Resolved (11:0) – That the application be approved subject to the following conditions;

 

1. The development hereby permitted shall be commenced before the expiration of three years from the date of this permission.

 

2. No development shall take place until samples of the materials to be used in the construction of the external surfaces of the buildings hereby permitted have been submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority. Development shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details.

 

3. No development shall take place until full details of both hard and soft landscape works have been submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority. These details shall include proposed finished levels; means of enclosure; the materials to be used in the surfacing of car parking spaces, vehicle and pedestrian access and circulation areas; the provision of minor artifacts and structures such as furniture, refuse or other storage units, signs and lighting; the provision of proposed and the protection of existing functional services above and below ground such as drainage power, communications cables, pipelines and indicating lines, manholes and supports.

 

4. All hard and soft landscape works shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details. The works shall be carried out prior to the occupation of any part of the development or in accordance with a programme to be agreed in writing with

the local planning authority.

 

5. A landscape management plan, including management responsibilities and maintenance schedules for all landscape areas shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority prior to the occupation of any part of the development. The landscape management plan shall be carried out as approved.

 

6. No external security or floodlighting other than that included within the approved details of hard and soft landscape works shall be installed within the site unless details have previously been submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority.

 

7. No development shall take place until a noise survey has been carried out to ascertain the likely effect on the apartments hereby permitted from traffic noise on Chester Road. The survey shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority. If the survey identifies any of the apartments as coming within noise exposure categories B and C as set out in the table of recommended noise exposure categories in Annex 1 of PPG24 “Planning and Noise”, a scheme of noise insulation for these apartments shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority. The approved scheme shall be implemented before any of the apartments identified in the survey are occupied. Thereafter the approved scheme shall be retained.

 

8. No development shall take place until a scheme for the secure storage of cycles within the site has been submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority. The approved scheme shall be carried out before any of the apartments hereby permitted are occupied and retained thereafter.

 

9. No development shall take place until a Green Travel Plan has been submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority. The submitted Green Travel Plan shall include information on public transport services within the area, measures for encouraging the use of alternative modes of travel to the car and a mechanism for monitoring and reviewing the Green Travel Plan, including the submission of an annual review and action plan to the local planning authority. The information on public transport services and measures for encouraging more alternative modes of travel contained in the approved Green Travel Plan shall be provided to the first occupiers of the apartments hereby permitted. Thereafter, the approved Green Transport Plan shall not be varied except as agreed in writing with the local planning authority or through the annual review and action plan.

 

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