Agenda item

APP/16/01560: Hoylake Police Station, QUEENS ROAD, HOYLAKE, CH47 2AG Proposal: Change of use from Vacant Police Station to Children's Day Nursery for up to 80 children (amended description) including extensions and alterations to the building.

Minutes:

The Managing Director for Delivery submitted the above application for consideration.

 

On a motion moved by Councillor D Elderton and seconded by Councillor D Realey it was:

 

Resolved (10:3) 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  The development hereby permitted shall be carried out in accordance with the approved plans received by the local planning authority on 19 May 2017 and listed as follows: B100 Rev A, B101 Rev A, B102 Rev A, B103 Rev A and B104 Rev A dated 19 May 2017

 

3  The premises shall be used as a day nursery and for no other purpose (including any other purpose in D1 of the schedule to the Town and Country Planning Use Classes (Amendment) Order 2005, or any subsequent Order or statutory provision revoking or re-enacting that Order.

 

 

4  No more than 80 children shall be accommodated at the premises at any one time in connection with the use hereby approved.

 

5  The nursery hereby permitted shall not be open other than between the hours of 07:30 hours and 18:30 hours Monday to Friday. The nursery shall be closed on Saturdays and Sundays and Bank holidays.

 

6  The outdoor play area shall only be used by a maximum of 10 children and only between 9.45 and 10.45 hours, 12.30 and 14.00 hours and 15.45 and 16.30 hours each day.

 

7  Within 6 months of the first use of the nursery development hereby permitted a full Travel Plan shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority. The provisions of the full Travel Plan shall be implemented and operated in accordance with the timetable contained therein for as long as the development is occupied and shall not be varied other than through agreement with the local planning authority. For the avoidance of doubt, such a plan shall include;

i) Access to the site by staff.

ii) Information on existing transport services to the site and staff travel patterns.

iii) Travel Plan principles including measures to promote and facilitate more sustainable transport.

iv)  Realistic targets for modal shift or split.

v) Identification of a Travel Plan co-ordinator and the establishment of a travel plan steering group.

vi) Measures and resource allocation to promote the Travel Plan; and,

vii) Mechanisms for monitoring and reviewing the Travel Plan, including the submission of an annual review and action plan to the local planning authority.

 

8  NO DEVELOPMENT SHALL TAKE PLACE until a site management plan has been submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority. Detail submitted in respect of the site management plan shall include details of how outdoor play shall be managed and supervised, including defined play areas to be used by different defined age groups at any given time. The development hereby permitted shall be implemented and thereafter operated in strict accordance with the approved site management plan.

 

9  NO DEVELOPMENT SHALL TAKE PLACE until full details of both hard and soft landscape works and all boundary treatments have been submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority and these works shall be carried out as approved. These details shall include; a minimum 2 metre buffer area between the boundary with the adjacent residential properties 4 Lighthouse Road and 3 Queens Road and the outdoor play area, all details of boundary treatments including an acoustic barrier fence; car parking layouts; other vehicle and pedestrian access and circulation areas; hard surfacing materials; minor artefact's and structures (e.g. furniture, play equipment, refuse or other storage units, etc.). All hard landscaping works and boundary treatments shall be completed before the nursery first comes into use and the boundary treatments shall be permanently retained thereafter.

 

10  All planting, seeding or turfing comprised in the approved details of landscaping shall be carried out in the first planting and seeding seasons following the occupation of the buildings or the completion of the

development, whichever is the sooner; and any trees or plants which within a period of 5 years from the completion of the development die, are removed or become seriously damaged or diseased shall be replaced in the next planting season with others of similar size and species, unless the local planning authority gives written approval to any variation.

 

11  NO DEVELOPMENT SHALL TAKE PLACE until full details of the pram storage, toy storage and bin storage have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  The approved pram, toy and bin storage areas shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

 

12  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.

 

13  NO DEVELOPMENT SHALL BE COMMENCED until a detailed scheme of highway improvement works for the provision of waiting restrictions at the junction of Lighthouse Road and Queens Road together with a programme for the completion of the works has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. No part of the development shall be brought into use until the required highway improvement works have been constructed in accordance with the approved details.

 

14  No part of the development shall be brought into use until the existing vehicular crossing on to Lighthouse Road has been permanently closed off and the footway reinstated. These works shall be in accordance with a scheme to be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

 

15  BEFORE ANY CONSTRUCTION COMMENCES, samples of the facing and roofing 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.

 

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