Agenda item

APP/15/01182: THE LYDIATE, HESWALL, WIRRAL, MERSEYSIDE, CH60 8PR - Residential development for two detached dwellings with detached garages including associated landscaping works

Minutes:

The Assistant Chief Executive submitted the above application for consideration.

 

On a motion by Councillor Walsh and seconded by Councillor Foulkes 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. The development hereby permitted shall be carried out in accordance with the approved plans received by the local planning authority on 24 August 2015 and listed as follows: B101, B102, B103, B105, B107, B108, B109 and B100

 

3. 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.

 

4. 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.

 

5. The development shall be constructed in accordance with the submitted Construction Management and shall be implemented in full during the period of construction and shall not be varied unless otherwise agreed in writing with the Local Planning Authority.

 

6. No retained trees, shrubs or hedges shall be cut down, uprooted or destroyed, nor shall any retained tree be topped or lopped other than in accordance with the approved plans and particulars, without the prior written approval of the Local Planning Authority. Any topping or lopping approved shall be carried out in accordance with British Standard 3998 (Tree Work).

 

(a) If any retained tree, shrub or hedge is removed, uprooted or destroyed or dies, another tree shall be planted at the same place and that tree shall be of such size and species and shall be planted at such time, as may be specified in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

 

(b) No equipment, machinery or materials shall be brought on to the site for the purpose of the development, until a scheme showing the exact position of protective fencing to enclose all retained trees beyond the outer edge of the overhang of their branches in accordance with British Standard 5837 (2005): Trees in Relation to Construction, has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority, and; the protective fencing has been erected in accordance with the approved details. This fencing shall be maintained until all equipment, machinery and surplus materials have been removed from the site. Nothing shall be stored or placed in any area fenced in accordance with this condition and the ground levels within those areas shall not be altered, nor shall any excavation be made, without the prior written consent of the Local Planning Authority.

 

In this condition ?retained tree, shrub or hedge means an existing tree, shrub or hedge which is to be retained in accordance with the approved plans and particulars; and paragraphs (a) and (b) above shall have effect until the expiration of five years from the first occupation or the completion of the development, whichever is the later.

 

7. No development shall commence on site until the trees on the site which are protected by a Tree Preservation Order have been enclosed by protective fencing, in accordance with British Standard 5837 (2005): Trees in Relation to Construction. Before the fence is erected its type and position shall be approved with the Local Planning Authority and after it has been erected, it shall be maintained for the duration of the works and no vehicle, plant, temporary building or materials, including raising and or, lowering of ground levels, shall be allowed within the protected areas(s).

 

8. The following activities must not be carried out under any circumstances:

 

a, No fires shall be lit within 10 metres of the nearest point of the canopy of any retained tree.

b, No works shall proceed until the appropriate Tree Protection Barriers are in place, with the exception of initial tree works.

c, No equipment, signage, fencing, tree protection barriers, materials, components, vehicles or structures shall be attached to or supported by a retained tree.

d,  No mixing of cement or use of other materials or substances shall take place within a RPA, or close enough to a RPA that seepage or displacement of those materials or substances could cause then to enter a RPA

e, No alterations or variations to the approved works or tree protection schemes shall be carried out without the prior written approval of the LPA.

 

9. 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.

 

10. Prior to commencement of development details of a surface water management plan shall be submitted to and agreed in writing with the Local Planning Authority. The development shall be implemented in full in accordance with the agreed plan and retained as such thereafter.

 

11. No part of the development shall be brought into use until areas for vehicle parking, turning and manoeuvring have been laid out, demarcated, levelled, surfaced and drained in accordance with the approved plan.

 

12. 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.

 

13. 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.

 

14. Prior to the first occupation of the dwellings, the proposed window to the side elevations shall be obscurely glazed and non opening up to a height of 1.7m above the floor level of the room they serve. They shall be retained as such thereafter.

 

 

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