Agenda item

APP/14/01313: Ridgeway High School, NOCTORUM AVENUE, NOCTORUM, CH43 9EB - New three storey Secondary school building with new separate Sports Hall. Provision of associated landscaping works, sprinkler tank facility, car & cycle parking, fencing, lighting and CCTV facilities. Demolition of existing school building following completion of new school building.

Minutes:

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

 

A Petitioner addressed the Committee

 

A Representative from the Education Funding Agency addressed the Committee

 

A Ward Councillor addressed the Committee.

 

On a motion by Councillor Elderton and seconded by Councillor Kelly 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. Detailed drawings shall be submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority before any work is commenced to indicate the finished site and ground floor levels intended at the completion of the development in relation to the existing site levels and the levels of the adjoining land and the development shall be carried out and completed in accordance with the details so approved. (Note:  The gradients of any new road or turning area should not exceed 1:25 and those of parking or loading bays should not exceed 1:40).

 

3. Before any construction commences, samples of the facing and roofing 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 development shall take place until details of secure parking provision for cycles have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Such provision as may be approved shall be provided before the building(s) hereby permitted is/are occupied and shall be retained permanently thereafter.

 

5. Within six months of the school being brought into use, a Travel Plan Shall be 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.

 

6. Any illumination of signs, buildings, canopies and other features of the premises shall be diffused or baffled to the satisfaction of the Local Planning Authority to prevent any spread of direct light or glare over the public highway or into neighbouring properties.

 

7. 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.

 

8. Notwithstanding the dimensions of the sports hall shown in information supporting the planning application, the sports hall and proposed multi-use games area hereby permitted shall not be constructed other than substantially in accordance with Sport England / National Governing Body Technical Design Guidance Notes ''Sports halls: Design and layouts' (Sports Hall),  'Floors for indoor sports'(Sports Hall) and 'Artificial surfaces for outdoor sports' (MUGA).

 

9. Use of the development shall not commence until a community use agreement has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority [after consultation with Sport England] , and a copy of the completed approved agreement has been provided to the Local Planning Authority. The agreement shall apply to indoor and outdoor sports facilities and include details of pricing policy, hours of use, access by non-educational establishment users, management responsibilities and a mechanism for review, and anything else which the Local Planning Authority in consultation with Sport England considers necessary in order to secure the effective community use of the facilities. The development shall not be used at any time other than in strict compliance with the approved agreement.

 

10. Prior to the school being brought into use, details of the proposed enhanced biodiversity areas, the methods of enhancement shall and the timetable for the works shall be submitted to and agreed in writing with the local Planning authority. The proposals shall be implemented in accordance with the approved details.

 

11. No tree, shrub or hedgerow felling, or any vegetation management and/or cutting operations should take place during the period 1st March to 31st August inclusive.

 

12. 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.

 

13. No development shall take place (including any demolition works) until a Construction Management Plan or Construction Method Statement for the demolition and/or construction of the development hereby approved has been submitted to, and approved in writing by, the Local Planning Authority.  The demolition and construction works shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details. 

 

Details submitted in respect of the method statement shall provide for routes for construction traffic, the provision of parking facilities for contractors and visitors during all stages of the development, hours of operation, the provision of a means of storage and/or delivery for all plant, site huts, site facilities and materials and shall provide for wheel cleaning facilities during the demolition, excavation, site preparation and construction stages of the development and/or method(s) of prevention of mud being carried onto the highway.

 

14. Construction of the development hereby approved shall not commence until full details of works to upgrade two bus stops on Noctorum Avenue fronting the development site have been submitted for approval in writing to the Local Planning Authority.  The works shall be completed in accordance with the approved details prior to first occupation of the development hereby approved.

 

15. Construction of the development hereby approved shall not commence until full details of works to improve traffic signs and road markings related to school safety in the vicinity of the development site have been submitted for approval in writing to the Local Planning Authority.  The works shall be completed in accordance with the approved details prior to first occupation of the development hereby approved.

 

16. The development hereby permitted shall be carried out in accordance with the approved plans received by the local planning authority on 20/10/2014 and 10/12/2014  and listed as follows: KL 3171, KLC 0020, RHS-L(PL)003 B3, RHS-L(PL)007 B2, RHS-C1000 B2, RHS-A(PL)202 B2, RHS-A(PL)201 B2, RHS-A(PL)003 B2, RHS-A(PL)002 B2, RHS-A(PL)004 B2, RHS-A(PL)001 B2 , RHS-L(PL)004 B1, RHS-E-68-801 P2, RHS-E-63-301 P1, RHS-L(PL)002 B1, RHS-L(PL)001 B1, RHS-L(PL)006 B1, RHS-L(PL)005, RHS-A(PL)005 B1, RHS-A(PL)301 B1, RHS-A(PL)401 B1, LNBS0029_T01 and  RHS-A(PL)203 B1

 

 

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