Agenda item

APP/13/01139:Heswall Squash Racquets Club, BRIMSTAGE ROAD, BARNSTON, CH60 1XG - Development of an extension to the existing building occupied by Heswall Squash Racquets Club, comprising New Sports hall, gym and changing facilities and cafe. Realignment of existing car park

Minutes:

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

 

On a motion by Councillor Elderton and seconded by Councillor Realey 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 take place before samples of the materials to be used in the construction of the external surfaces of the development hereby permitted have been 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. Prior to the commencement of development the following details shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  The development shall be undertaken in accordance with the approved details, that is:

 

a.  a plan showing the location of, and allocating a reference number to, each existing tree on site which has a stem with a diameter, measured over the bark at a point of 1.5 metres above ground level, exceeding 75 mm, showing which trees are to be retained and the crown spread of each retained tree;

b.  details of the species, diameter (measured in accordance with paragraph (a) above), and the approximate height, and an assessment of the general health and stability of each retained tree and of each tree which is on land adjacent to the site and to which paragraphs (c) and (d) below apply;

c.  details of any proposed topping or lopping of any retained tree, or of any tree on land adjacent to the site;

d.  details of any proposed alterations in existing ground levels, and of the position of any proposed excavation, within the crown spread of any retained tree, or any tree on land adjacent to the site; and

e.  details of the specification and position of fencing [and of any measures to be taken] for the protection of any retained tree from damage before or during the course of the development hereby permitted.

 

4. No development (including any demolition, earthworks or vegetation clearance) shall take place before a scheme of landscaping, phased in relation to any phasing of the development, which shall include details of both hard and soft landscaping works and earthworks, has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  The scheme as approved shall be carried out in the first planting season following the completion of each development phase.  Any trees, shrubs or plants that die within a period of five years from the completion of the development, or are removed and/or become seriously damaged or diseased in that period, shall be replaced (and if necessary continue to be replaced) in the first available planting season with others of similar size and species, unless the Local Planning Authority gives prior written permission for any variation.

 

5. No development shall take place before details of the proposed finished floor levels; ridge and eaves heights of the building hereby approved have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  The submitted levels details shall be measured against a fixed datum and shall show existing and finished ground levels, eaves and ridge heights of surrounding property.  The development shall be carried out as approved.

 

6. The windows to be created in the south-east facing elevation (fronting onto Chester Road) shall be in tinted glass (to a level to be agreed with the Local Planning Authority) and shall be non-opening.  The windows shall not thereafter be altered in any way without prior written approval of the Local Planning Authority.

 

7. There shall be no use of the new Sports Hub and other sporting facilities outside the hours of 07:30 and 23:00 Monday to Saturday and between the hours of 08:30 and 22:00 on Sundays and Bank Holidays.

 

8. No external lighting shall be installed on site unless details of such lighting, including the intensity of illumination and predicted lighting contours, have been first submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  Any external lighting that is installed shall accord with the details as may be so approved.

 

9. The development hereby permitted shall be used for the leisure and sporting facilities set out in the application and supporting documents and for no other purpose (including any other purpose in Class D2 of the schedule to the Town and Country Planning Use Classes (Amendment) Order 2005, or any subsequent Order or statutory provision revoking or re-enacting that Order.

 

10. The development hereby permitted shall be carried out in accordance with the approved plans received by the local planning authority on 30 August 2013 and listed as follows: Drawing Number 8793/01/P1 (dated April 2012); Drawing Number 8793/02/P1 (dated April 2012); Drawing Number 8793/03/P1 (dated April 2012); Drawing Number 8793/04/P1 (dated April 2012) and Drawing Number 8793/05/P1 (dated April 2012)

 

11. 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.

 

12. 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.

 

 

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