Agenda item

APP/13/00811: Land at 37 OLDFIELD DRIVE, HESWALL, CH60 6SS - Erection of a 2 storey residential property together with new access to Oldfield Drive and a detached garage (amended description).

Minutes:

The Strategic Director for Regeneration and Environment submitted the above application for consideration.

 

A Ward Councillor addressed the meeting.

 

On a motion by Councillor Foulkes and seconded by Councillor Realey it was:

 

Resolved (7:4:1) 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. The development hereby permitted shall be carried out in accordance with the approved plans received by the local planning authority on 8th August 2013 and listed as follows: AD1250 PL02B, AD1250 PL03B, AD1250 PL04B, AD1250 PL05B, AD1250 PL06B, AD1250 PL07B, AD1250 PL08B and AD1250 PL09

 

3. Notwithstanding the provisions of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2008 (or any subsequent Order or statutory provision revoking or re-enacting the provisions of that Order), no garages, outbuildings or other extensions to a dwelling shall be erected unless expressly authorised.

 

4. Notwithstanding the provisions of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2008 (or any Order revoking or re-enacting that Order) no external alterations or extensions shall be carried out to the building(s) hereby approved.

 

5. 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.

 

6. Before the development hereby permitted is brought into use the first floor windows in the east and west facing elevations serving the en-suit and dressing room of bedroom four shall be  fixed and obscurely glazed with frosted glass and shall be retained as such thereafter.

 

7. 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.

 

8. No works or development shall take place until a scheme for the protection of the retained trees- The Tree protection plan (section 5.5, BS 5837:2012,Trees in relation to design, demolition and construction - Recommendations) has been agreed in writing with the LPA.  This scheme shall include:

 

A.  the details of each retained tree as required at section. 4.4 of BS5837 in a separate schedule.

B.  a plan or relevant drawings, including proposed site layout plans, to a scale and level of accuracy appropriate to the proposal that shows constraints posed by existing trees (section 5.2 BS 5837), the position, crown spread and Root Protection Area (section 4.6 of BS5837) of every retained tree on site and on neighbouring or nearby ground to the site in relation to the approved plans and particulars. The positions of all trees to be removed shall be indicated on this plan.

C.  a schedule of tree works for all the retained trees in paragraphs (a) and (b) above, specifying pruning and other remedial or preventative work, whether for physiological, hazard abatement, aesthetic or operational reasons.  All tree works shall be carried out in accordance with BS3998, 2010, Tree work-Recommendations.

 

An arboricultural method statement (section 6 BS 5837) containing;

 

D.  the details and positions (shown on the plan at paragraph (a) above) of the Tree Protection Barriers (section 6.2 of BS5837), identified separately where required for different phases of construction work (e.g. demolition, construction, hard landscaping). The Tree Protection Barriers must be erected prior to each construction phase commencing and remain in place, and undamaged for the duration of that phase.  No works shall take place on the next phase until the Tree Protection Barriers are repositioned for that phase.

E.  the details and positions (shown on the plan at paragraph (a) above) of the Ground Protection Zones (para 6.2.3 of BS5837).

F.  the details and positions (shown on the plan at paragraph (a) above) of the Construction Exclusion Zones (section 6 of BS5837).

G.  the details and positions (shown on the plan at paragraph (a) above) of the underground service runs (para 5.5.6 of BS5837).

H.  the details of any changes in levels or the position of any proposed excavations within 5 metres of the Root Protection Area (para. 5.5.6 of BS5837) of any retained tree, including those on neighbouring or nearby ground.

I.  the details of any special engineering required to accommodate the protection of retained trees (section 7 of BS5837), (e.g. in connection with foundations, bridging, water features, surfacing)

J.  the details of the working methods to be employed for the installation of drives and paths within the RPAs of retained trees in accordance with the principles of "No-Dig" construction (section 7.4 BS 5837)

K.  the details of the working methods to be employed with regard to the access for and use of heavy, large, difficult to manoeuvre plant (including cranes and their loads, dredging machinery, concrete pumps, piling rigs, etc) on site.

L.  the details of the method to be employed for the stationing, use and removal of site cabins within any RPA (para. 6.2.2.3 of BS5837).

M.  the details of tree protection measures for site works, landscaping operations and management (section 8 of BS5837).

N.  the timing of the various phases of the works or development in the context of the tree protection measures.

 

9. The area(s) so designated within the site shall be suitably landscaped in accordance with a scheme to be submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority before any works commence on site, the landscape work to be completed during the first available planting season following completion of the development hereby approved and shall be maintained thereafter to the satisfaction of the Local Planning Authority.

 

10. In order to protect habitats of special local importance for nature conservation:

 

  I.  Construction work shall only take place between 8am and 6pm.

  II.  Any holes or trenches left open overnight must have a means of escape provided.

  III.  All construction materials, especially those containing lime, must be stored so that badgers cannot access them, and to the front of the house, not the rear.

  IV.  When fencing to the garden is installed, access shall be left for the badgers to move around between gardens.

 

 

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