Agenda item

APP/13/01294: Cleaver Residential Home, OLDFIELD ROAD, HESWALL, CH60 6SE - Refurbishment of the existing care home and the erection of a new extension wing to provide 53 Bedrooms with associated facilities,new access road from Oldfield Road, new car park with associated hard and soft landscaping to grounds.

Minutes:

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

 

On a motion by Councillor Elderton and seconded by Councillor Boult 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.  Before any construction commences, 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.

 

3.  Prior to the commencement of development  detailed plans to show existing and proposed ground levels, sections across the site and details of the finished slab level for the extensions shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The ground levels across the site and finished slab levels for each part of the new development shall be as per the approved plans.

 

4.  No development shall take place unstill a full scheme for the protection of retained trees including details of the working methods to be employed for the installation of drives and paths within the root protection areas of protected trees in accordance with the principles of 'no dig' construction along with a schedule of tree works specifying pruning and other remedial or preventative work in accordance with BS3998 Recommendations For Tree Work have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Department. The development shall be carried out in full in accordance with the approved details.

 

5.  That the existing boundary treatment be retained or replaced by a suitable hedge species in accordance with a scheme to be approved by the Local Planning Authority, such work to be completed before the building or buildings are occupied and thereafter maintained to the satisfaction of the Local Planning Authority.

 

6.  No tree which is to be retained shall be cut down, uprooted or destroyed, or have surgery undertaken, without the written approval of the Local Planning Authority, within 1 year from the completion of the development.  Any such trees removed or dying shall be replaced with trees of a size and species to be agreed in writing with the Local Planning Authority in the next available planting season.

 

7.  Any trees and shrubs planted in accordance with the landscaping scheme which, within 5 years of planting  are removed, dying, seriously damaged or become diseased shall be replaced to the satisfaction of the Local Planning Authority, by trees and shrubs of similar size species to be replaced

 

8.  Before any equipment, machinery or materials are brought onto site, a 1 metre high fence or other barrier as agreed in writing with the Local Planning Authority, shall be erected around the outer limit of the crown spread of all trees, hedges or woodlands shown to be retained on the approved plan.  Such fencing shall be maintained in a satisfactory manner until the development is completed.  During the period of construction, no material shall be stored, fires started or trenches dug within these enclosed areas without the prior consent in writing of the Local Planning Authority.

 

9.  The area so designated within drawing no 103 G 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. Details of the air-conditioning, ventilation and flue extraction systems including particulars of noise levels shall be submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority before any works commence on site.

 

11.All plant machinery and equipment (including refrigeration and air conditioning systems) to be used by reason of this approval shall be so installed, maintained and operated as to prevent the transmission of

  noise and vibration into any neighbouring premises.

 

12.No development shall take place until a Site Waste Management Plan, 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 Plan shall be implemented in full unless otherwise agreed in writing with the Local Planning Authority.

 

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

 

14.Arrangements for the storage and disposal of refuse, and vehicle access thereto, shall be made within the curtilage of the site to the satisfaction of the Local Planning Authority prior to the occupation of the building.

 

15.The hard and soft landscaping scheme hereby approved shall be carried out prior to the occupation of any part of the development or in accordance with a timetable to be agreed in writing with the Local Planning Authority.  Any trees or plants that within a period of five years after planting, are removed, die or become, in the opinion of the Local Planning Authority, seriously damaged or defective shall be replaced with others of a species, size and number as originally approved in the first available planting season unless the Local Planning Authority gives its written consent to any variation.

 

16.Development shall not be commenced until a Travel Plan has been 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 timetable contained therein unless otherwise agreed in writing with the Local Planning Authority.

 

17.The existing Vehicular access from Oldfield Gardens (which will be rendered obsolete by this development) to be reinstated to standard footway levels within three months of the first completion to the written satisfaction of the Local Planning Authority.

 

18.Prior to the commencement of development, details of the proposed vehicular access onto Oldfield Road shall be submitted to and agreed in writing with the LOcal Planning Authority. The approved scheme shall be implemented in full prior to first occupation.

 

19.The removal or repair of any ridge tiles shall only be undertaken under the supervision of a suitably experienced and licensed bat ecologist.

 

 

20.Prior to the use hereby approved commencing, Informative signs shall be erected advising staff and visitors that Oldfield Drive is not accessible in accordance with the Byway Regulation. The location of the signs shall be agreed in writing with the local planning authority and the signs shall remain in situ at all times.

 

 

21.No tree felling shall take place until an investigation by a qualified bat ecologist for bat roost potential has taken place and the report has been submitted to and agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority. If it can conclusively be established that bat/s or evidence of use is absent the potential would be immediately sealed to prevent bat occupancy before felling takes place. In the event that -

 

  a) the detailed inspection is inconclusive or

 

  b) bat/s or evidence of use is found then dusk/dawn surveys during the   active season of bats would be required. If bat/s or their roost will be   affected by the felling then work could not commence until such time   that a European Protected Species Mitigation Licence has been applied   for and approved to legally proceed with the felling along with mitigation   measures.

 

22.If bat tree roost potential is located but is absent of bats or evidence of use and will be lost then compensation for that loss should take the form of bat boxes in localised and sound trees; a bat ecologist should undertake the erecting of the boxes. The details of which shall be submitted to and agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority prior to the commencement of development.

 

 

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