Agenda item

APP/13/01061: Car Park, WHARF STREET, PORT SUNLIGHT, CH62 5HD - Erection of 58 apartments (100% affordable housing) and associated infrastructure.

Minutes:

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

 

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

 

Resolved (12:0) 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 commence until full details of the proposed facilities for collection and storage of waste, including recyclable materials, have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The facilities shall be implemented in full prior to the first use of the development, and retained as such thereafter.

 

3. No developments hall commence until samples of the facing, roofing and 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.

 

4. No part of the development shall be brought into use until space and facilities for cycle parking of a type and in a location to and agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority have been provided and these facilities shall be permanently retained thereafter.

 

5. A detailed remediation strategy to bring the site to a condition suitable for the intended use by removing unacceptable risks to human health, buildings and other property and the natural and historic environment, must be prepared, and is subject to the approval in writing of the Local Planning Authority. The strategy must include all works to be undertaken, proposed remediation objectives and remediation criteria, timetable of works, site management procedures and roles and responsibilities. The strategy must ensure that the site will not qualify as contaminated land under Part 2A of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 after remediation.

 

6. The approved remediation strategy must be carried out in accordance with its terms prior to the commencement of development other than that required to carry out remediation, unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The Local Planning Authority must be given two weeks written notification of commencement of the remediation works.

 

7. Following completion of the remedial works identified in the approved remediation strategy, a verification report that demonstrates the effectiveness of the remediation carried out must be produced, and is subject to the approval in writing of the Local Planning Authority, prior to commencement of use of the development.

 

8. In the event that previously unidentified contamination is found at any time when carrying out the approved development immediate contact must be made with the Local Planning Authority and works must cease in that area. An investigation and risk assessment must be undertaken and where remediation is necessary a remediation scheme must be prepared in accordance with the requirements of condition 5 which is subject to the approval in writing of the Local Planning Authority.

 

Following completion of the remedial works identified in the approved remediation strategy a verification report must be prepared, which is subject to the approval in writing of the Local Planning Authority in accordance with condition 5 above.

 

9. No development shall take place until details of landfill gas monitoring of the site, together with a scheme for gas exclusion control relating to the construction of the building and/or the application site, have been submitted to and, in the case of the scheme, approved by the Local Planning Authority in writing. The approved scheme shall be implemented in full before the building is occupied.

 

10. No development shall take place on the application site until the applicant or their agent or successors in title has secured the implementation of a programme of archaeological work in accordance with a written scheme of investigation which has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

 

11. The hard and soft landscaping scheme shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details and to a reasonable standard in accordance with the relevant recommendations of appropriate British standards or other recognised standards of Good Practice. The works shall be carried out prior to the occupation of any part of the development or in accordance with the timetable agreed with the Local Planning Authority. Any trees or plants that, within a period of five years after planting, are removed, die or become seriously damaged or defective, shall be replaced as soon as is reasonably practicable with others of a species, size and number as originally approved, unless the Local Planning Authority gives its written consent to any variation.

 

12. Prior to the commencement of demolition/ construction the trees to be retained on the site shall be protected by chestnut paling fences 1.5 metres high erected to the full extent of their canopies or such lesser extent as may be approved by the Local Planning Authority, the fencing to be removed only when the development (including pipelines and other underground works) has been completed; the enclosed areas shall at all times be kept clear of excavated soil, materials, contractors' plant and machinery.

 

13. No development shall commence until details and sections at a scale of 1:5 of the proposed eaves, window reveals, window designs, doors, and junctions between the contrasting materials shall be submitted to and agreed in writing with the Local Planning Authority. The approved scheme shall be implemented in full.

 

14. The existing redundant access within the Wood Street frontage shall be made up to existing levels, the details of which shall be submitted to and agreed in writing with the Local Planning Authority prior to the commencement of development, including a timetable for completion of the works.

 

15. This approval shall relate to the orriginal submission as amended by drawing no's 13053-112A, 13053 - 113B, 13053 - 114B,  13053 - 116B, 13053 - 117A, 13053-118A, 13053-120B, 13053-121B, 13053 - 122B, 13053-123B and 13053-124C received by the Local Planning Authority on 10th October 2013.

 

16. No development shall take place until a Site Waste Management Plan (SWMP), confirming how demolition and construction waste will be recovered and re-used on the site or at other sites, has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  The approved SWMP shall be implemented in full unless otherwise agreed in writing with the Local Planning Authority.

 

17. 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 in accordance with the approved schemeand shall meet the definition of affordable housing in Annex 2 of the National Planning Policy Framework or any future guidance that replaces it. The scheme shall include: 

 

i.  the numbers, type, tenure and location on the site of the affordable housing provision to be made which shall consist of not less than 100% of housing units/bed spaces;

ii.  the timing of the construction of the affordable housing and its phasing in relation to the occupancy of the market housing;

iii.  the arrangements for the transfer of the affordable housing to an affordable housing provider, or the management of the affordable housing (if no RSL involved);

iv.  the arrangements to ensure that such provision is affordable for both first and subsequent occupiers of the affordable housing; and

v.  the occupancy criteria to be used for determining the identity of occupiers of the affordable housing and the means by which such occupancy criteria shall be enforced.

 

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