Agenda item

APP/15/00119: Orovales, 135 CALDY ROAD, CALDY, CH48 1LP - 2 new-build houses within the grounds of existing house together with works to driveway entrance to improve visibility (Amended plans)

Minutes:

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

 

A Ward Councillor addressed the Committee.

 

It was moved by Councillor Elderton and seconded by Councillor Boult that the application be refused on the following grounds:

 

‘ The proposed development, by virtue of the number of dwellings proposed and their siting, and having regards to important landscape features and trees to be retained, represents an overdevelopment of the site which would be out of keeping and be detrimental to the character and appearance of the area. The proposed development is therefore contrary to Policies HS4, HS5 and CH11 of the Wirral Unitary Development Plan, the Caldy Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management Plan and the National Planning Policy Framework.’

 

The motion was put and lost (3:9)

 

It was then moved by Councillor Daniel and seconded by Councillor Brightmore and:

 

Resolved (9:3) 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 details of all materials to be used in the external construction (facing bricks, roof tiles/slates etc) of this development have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  The development shall be carried out in accordance with approved details.

 

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

 

4. Notwithstanding the provisions of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995 (or any Order revising, revoking or re-enacting that Order with or without modification) there shall be no enlargement or extension of the dwelling(s) hereby permitted, including any additions or alterations to the roof, without the prior written approval of the Local Planning Authority.

 

5. Notwithstanding the provisions of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995 (or any Order revising, revoking or re-enacting that Order with or without modification) no garages, outbuildings or enclosure shall be constructed within the applications site without the prior written approval of the Local Planning Authority.

 

6. No development shall take place before details of all walls (including retaining walls), fences, gates or other means of enclosure to be erected in or around the development have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  Prior to the first occupation of the development the walls (including retaining walls), fences, gates or other means of enclosure shall be erected as approved and shall thereafter be permanently retained and maintained.

 

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. 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.

 

9. No works or development shall take place before a scheme for the protection of the existing trees (other than those the removal of which has been granted express permission in writing by the Local Planning Authority) has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  Such a scheme will comply with provisions of BS5837 ("Trees in relation to construction - 1990") and BS3998 ("Recommendations for tree works - 1989").  The approved scheme for the protection of existing trees to be retained shall be implemented before development commences and be maintained in full until the development has been completed.

 

10. The applicant or developer shall give 10 days' written notice to the Local Planning Authority prior to carrying out any tree works that have been approved.

 

11. No development (including any demolition, earthworks or vegetation clearance) shall take place before a scheme of landscaping, phased in relation to any phasing of 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 each development phase, 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.

 

12. The demolition of the existing gateposts and boundary wall as part of the works to be carried out in respect of the relocated access arrangements shall be carried out by hand or by tools held in the hand other than power driven tools, and the materials stored for re-use in the construction of the relocated access and gateposts.

 

13. No dwelling or use hereby permitted shall be occupied or the use commenced until the existing access(es) to the development site has been permanently stopped up and the footway reinstated in accordance with full details to be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

 

14. The development hereby permitted shall be carried out in accordance with the approved plans received by the local planning authority on 2 February 2015 and 17 April 2015and listed as follows: 3686 304 Rev.A (received 17.04.15); 3686 300 (received 02.02.15); 3686 316 Rev.A (received 17.04.15); 3686 314 Rev.A (received 17.04.15); 3686 312 Rev.A (received 17.04.15); 3686 307 Rev.A (received 17.04.15); 3686 308 Rev.A (received 17.04.15); 3686 309 Rev.A (received 17.04.15); 3686 310 Rev.A (received 17.04.15); 3686 305 Rev.A (received 17.04.15); 3686 315 (received 17.04.15); 3686 313 Rev.A (received 17.04.15); 3686 311 Rev.A (received 17.04.15); 3686 301 (received 02.02.15) and 3686 306 (received 02.02.15)

 

15. No removal of trees/scrub/hedges shall be carried out on site between 1st March and 31st August inclusive in any year, unless otherwise approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority unless searched beforehand for birds' nests and nesting activity by a suitably qualified ecologist. Where nests are found in trees, scrub or hedgerows, clearance of vegetation within a 5 metre radius of the nest must be postponed until the young are confirmed to have fledged.

 

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