Agenda item

APP/15/00212: LAND AT PASTURE ROAD, MORETON, WIRRAL - The provision of new stable blocks, Associated yard, Menage, Access track and change of land use to equestrian.

Minutes:

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

 

A Petitioner addressed the Committee

 

The Agent addressed the Committee

 

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

 

Resolved (12:1) 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 proposed development and associated works shall only take place in accordance with the submitted amphibian and reptile method statement.

 

3. No tree felling, scrub clearance, hedgerow removal, vegetation management, ground clearance and/or building works is to take place during the period 1 March to 31 August inclusive. 

 

4. The embankment present on the site and the majority of the easternmost field shall be fenced off in accordance with details to be submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority.  The approved fencing shall be erected before the development is commenced and the approved areas shall be maintained as unmanaged vegetation and retained as such thereafter.

 

5. Both Japanese knotweed and Himalayan balsam are present within the site boundary. A method statement shall be submitted within 1 month of the date of this approval that includes the following:

 

·  A plan showing the extent of the plant;

·  What method will be used to prevent the plant spreading further, including demarcation; and

·  What method of control will be used, including details of monitoring.

 

The approved scheme shall be implemented in full.

 

6. The development permitted by this planning permission shall only be carried out in accordance with the approved Flood Risk Assessment FEB 2015/2014-124-RevB/Flood Risk Consultancy Ltd and the following mitigation measures detailed within the FRA:

 

·  Raising the stable block finished floor level to a minimum of 4.13m AOD

·  Limiting discharge of surface water run-off from site to existing undeveloped rates and volumes for a range of return periods up to the 100-year climate change adjustment standard of flood protection (where this criteria cannot be adhered to, the rate will be limited to QBAR)

·  The stables are to register with the Environment Agency's Flood Warnings Direct Service

·  The stables are to develop and practice a flood warning procedure and evacuation plan

·  Appropriate flood warning signage to be erected on the site.

 

The mitigation measures shall be fully implemented prior to the occupation and subsequently in accordance with the timing/phasing arrangements embodied within the scheme, or within any other period as may subsequently be agreed, in writing by the local planning authority.

 

7. The development hereby permitted shall not be commenced until such time as a surface water regulation scheme has been submitted to, and approved in writing by, the local planning authority.

 

The scheme shall be fully implemented and subsequently maintained, in accordance with the timing/phasing arrangements embodied within the scheme, or within any other period as may be subsequently agreed, in writing by the local planning authority.

 

8. The use hereby permitted shall be carried on by the Upton Park Pony Owners Association only and shall not inure for the benefit of the land or any other person(s).  When the land ceases to be occupied by the Upton Park Pony Owners Association, the use hereby permitted shall cease and within one month of the use hereby permitted ceasing to operate all buildings, materials and equipment brought on to the land in connection with the use shall be removed and the land restored to its recreational use and condition prior to the use hereby permitted commencing.

 

9. Within one month of the date of this permission, details of the size and species of the proposed hedging to be planted shall be submitted to and agreed in writing with the Local Planning Authority. The approved scheme shall be planted within the first available planting scheme and maintained to the satisfaction of the Local Planning Authority thereafter.  Any trees or shrubs removed, dying, being severely damaged or becoming seriously diseased within five years from the date of the completion of the planting scheme shall be replaced by trees or shrubs of a similar size and species to those originally required to be planted unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

 

10. No more than 10 horses shall be stabled or graze within the site at any one time.

 

11. The menage equipment shall be removed and stored within the proposed building when not in use.

 

12. Prior to first occupation or use of the development, arrangements for the storage and disposal of refuse, and vehicle access thereto, shall be made within the curtilage of the site, in accordance with details previous submitted to and agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority, prior to the first occupation of the building.

 

13. The development hereby permitted shall be carried out in accordance with the approved plans received by the Local Planning Authority on 23rd February 2015 and 29th May 2015 and listed as follows:  Proposed Site Plan Drawing Number 2020115 Rev A (received 29.05.2015); Building 1 Information Drawing Number 2040115 (received 23.02.2015); Building 2 Information Drawing Number 2050115 (received 23.02.2015); Fence & Hedge Information Drawing Number 2060115 (received 23.02.2015) and Lighting Plan Drawing Number 2070115 (received 23.02.2015).

 

14. No development shall take place until a scheme of security lighting and any proposed CCTV has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  Any external/security lighting shall be switched no earlier than 0700 hours and no later than 1900 hours with a maximum length of operation of 60 minutes.  Any external/security lighting shall only be operational between 1 October and 31 March in any given year.  Any such scheme shall be installed and be operational prior to the first occupation of the development and the scheme shall be retained for the life of the development.

 

 

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