Agenda item

APP/15/01507: Land to the East side of Kinloss Road, Greasby - Erection of 2no. residential apartment blocks with a total number of 19 apartments, with associated landscaping and car parking (100% affordable housing) - amended car parking layout

Minutes:

The Assistant Chief Executive submitted the above application for consideration.

 

A Ward Councillor addressed the Committee

 

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

 

“The proposed development, by virtue of its overall height, scale, siting and appearance, would result in an over- dominant and visually obtrusive form of development, particularly having regard to adjacent 2-storey dwellings, which would constitute an unneighbourly form of development that would appear incongruous in the street scene and would neither respect nor relate well to the existing pattern of development on Kinloss Road, Hendon Walk and Pump Lane. The proposal is therefore contrary to Policy HS4 of the adopted Wirral Unitary Development Plan as well as the principles of the National Planning Policy Framework.”

 

The motion was put and lost (6:7)

 

It was then moved by Councillor Realey and seconded by Councillor Walsh and

 

Resolved (7:6) That the application be approved subject to the following conditions:

 

1. The development hereby permitted shall be begun before the expiration of 3 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 19th November 2015 and 19th February 2016 and listed as follows: 14-118-110 rev E (Dated 19/02/16), 14-118-171 rev A (Dated 13/11/15), 14-118-120 rev C (Dated 13/11/15), 14-118-150 rev B (Dated 13/11/15) & 14-118-121 rev B (Dated 13/11/15).

 

3. Before any construction commences, samples of the facing/roofing/window 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. Prior to the first occupation of the dwellings 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 to be submitted to and agreed in writing by the local planning authority. the approved details shall be implemented in full unless otherwise agreed in writing with the local planning authority.

 

6. The area(s) so designated within the site shall be suitably landscaped in accordance with a scheme to be submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority before any works commence on site, the landscape work to be completed during the first available planting season following completion of the development hereby approved and shall be maintained thereafter to the satisfaction of the Local Planning Authority.

 

The detailed landscaping plans shall include:

 

(i)  details of boundary treatments and hard surfaces

(ii)  the location, size and species of all trees to be planted

(iii)  the location, size, species and density of all shrub and ground cover planting

(iv)  a schedule of implementation

(v)  any retaining walls

 

7. 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.

 

8. No development shall commence until full details of a scheme for a sustainable drainage system1 to serve the site, and method of implementation including arrangements to secure funding and maintenance for the lifetime of the development through an appropriate legally binding agreement have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority in consultation with Lead Local Flood Authority. The approved scheme shall be implemented in accordance with the approved details and timetable.  Thereafter the sustainable drainage system shall be managed and maintained in accordance with the approved scheme.

 

9. No development shall take place until a scheme of works to provide waiting restrictions at the junction of Kinloss Road, Pump Lane and Hendon Walk has been submitted to and agreed in writing by the local planning authority.  The development shall not be first brought into use until such works have been completed and laid out in accordance with the approved details. The approved scheme shall be retained as such thereafter.

 

10. Before the development hereby permitted is brought into use the windows indicated drawing numbers 14-118-150 Rev B (13-11-2015) and 14-118-121 Rev B (13-11-2015) shall be obscurely glazed with frosted glass and non opening up to a level of 1.8m above finished floor level and shall be retained as such thereafter.

 

11. No development shall take place until a full scheme of works and timetable for the construction of the new highways and/or amendment of the existing highway made necessary by this development, including new carriageways, footways, street lighting, surface water drainage, traffic signs, road markings, tactile paved pedestrian crossings, street furniture and access onto the adjacent highway has been submitted to and agreed in writing with the Local Planning Department. The approved works shall be completed in accordance with the LPA written approval prior to occupation of the development.

 

12. The development shall not begin until a scheme for the provision of affordable housing as part of the development has been submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority. The affordable housing shall be provided and retained, unless otherwise agreed in writing with the Local Planning Authority in accordance with the approved scheme. The scheme shall include:

 

1) The numbers, type, tenure and location of the site of the affordable housing provision to be made:

2) The timing of construction of the affordable housing;

3) The occupancy criteria to be used for determining the identity of prospective and successive occupiers of the affordable housing and the means by which such occupancy can be enforced.

 

13. No development shall take place until details of secure covered cycle parking and/or storage facilities have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  These facilities shall be provided in accordance with the approved details and made available for use prior to the first use of the development hereby permitted and shall be retained for use at all times thereafter.

 

 

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