Agenda item

APP/15/00401: 143 HIGHFIELD ROAD, ROCK FERRY, CH42 2BX - Partial demolition and conversion of existing building followed by construction of extension and development to provide a total of 17 apartments with car parking and amenity space

Minutes:

Councillor Paul Hayes declared a prejudicial interest by virtue of him being acquainted with the applicant and left the room during consideration of this item.

 

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

 

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

 

Resolved (10:2) 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 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. The development hereby permitted shall be carried out in accordance with the approved plans received by the local planning authority on 18th March 2015 and listed as follows: B100; B101; B102; B103 Revision A (received 8th July 2015); B104; B106

 

4. No development shall take place until a full scheme of works for the widening of the vehicular access to the site has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  The scheme shall provide for the widening of the access to 4.5 metres and include the provision of pedestrian dropped kerbs and tactile paving, the reinstatement to existing footway levels of the vehicular access rendered obsolete by the development hereby approved, and the relocation of the existing bus stop from in front of the proposed vehicular access.  The development shall not be first occupied until the works have been completed as agreed with the Local Planning Authority.

 

5. No part of the development shall be brought into use until space and facilities for cycle parking & storage 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.

 

6. Prior to commencement of development, a full scheme of landscaping shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority, and the approved scheme shall be implemented in full within six months of the first occupation of the development

 

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 development shall take place until full details of a scheme for the eradication of Japanese Knotweed shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  The scheme shall include a timetable for implementation and clearly identify the extent of the Japanese Knotweed on a scaled plan.

 

10. Prior to commencement of development, including any demolition, the approved scheme and timetable for the eradication of Japanese Knotweed referred to in Condition 9 above, shall be implemented in full and a validation report confirming the remediation treatment carried out and that the site is free of Knotweed shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

 

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