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

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

Resolved- (13:0) - 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 24th November 2017 and listed as follows:

Site location plan  LP01 

Planning Layout  PL01 Rev.B

Planning Layout (Colour)  PL01C Rev.B

Boundary Layout   BL01 Rev.B

Finished Floor Level Layout  FF01 Rev.B

Hard Surfacing Layout  HS01 Rev.B

Material Layout  ML01 Rev.B

Site Sections  SEC01 Rev.B

Street Scenes  SS01 Rev.B

Landscape Planting Plan  LDS357-03 Rev.B

Landscape Planting Plan  LDS357-04 Rev.B

Landscape Planting Spec  LDS357 Rev.B

Design & Access Statement (November 2017)

Boundary details

and the original drawings no 10642-004, received by the Local planning Authority on 21st August 2017

3. Prior to the commencement of development a  survey of existing and proposed ground levels, sections across the site and details of the finished slab level for each property shall be submitted to and agreed in writing with the Local Planning Authority. The ground levels across the site and finished slab levels for each property shall be as per the approved plans.

4. No development shall take place until a full scheme of works and timetable for the construction of the new highway 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, traffic calming, tactile paved pedestrian crossings, street furniture, access onto the adjacent highway, road safety audit and monitoring has been submitted to and agreed in writing with the Local Planning Authority. The approved works shall be completed in accordance with the Local Planning Authority written approval prior to occupation of the development.

5. No tree felling, scrub clearance, hedgerow removal, vegetation management, ground clearance or building work's to take place during the period 1st March to 31st August inclusive. If it is necessary to undertake works during the bird breeding season, then all buildings, trees, scrub and hedgerows are to be checked first by an appropriately experienced ecologist to ensure no breeding birds are present, If present, details of how they will be protected will be required.

6. In order to protect habitats of special local importance for nature conservation:

1) Construction work shall only take place between 8am and 6pm.

2) Any holes or trenches left open overnight must have a means of escape provided.

3) All construction materials, especially those containing lime, must be stored so that hedgehogs cannot access them.

4) Prior to the construction of garden fencing, details shall be submitted and approved in writing of the means of access provision for hedgehogs to move between gardens

7. Prior to the commencement of development a Construction Environmental Management Plan (CEMP) document to manage and mitigate the main environmental effects during the construction phases of the proposed development shall be submitted to and approved in writing with the Local Planning Authority. The CEMP should address and propose measures to minimise the main construction effects of the development and, amongst other things, should include details of ecological mitigation, construction and demolition waste management, pollution prevention and soil resource management. The CEMP would normally be expected to include the agreed method statements to mitigate or avoid adverse environmental impacts which could include:

•A lighting scheme which enable bats continued use of retained commuting and foraging habitats. Lighting should be kept to a minimum and designed to avoid spill into foraging habitat particularly the Dibbinsdale brook buffer zone (section 7 of the survey report). It would be helpful for the applicant to refer to the document Bats and Lighting in the UK, Bats and the Built Environment Series, Bat Conservation Trust and Institute for Lighting Engineers; and

•A waste audit or similar mechanism for monitoring construction waste.

The CEMP should be compiled in a coherent and integrated document and should be accessible to site managers, all contractors and sub-contractors working on site as a simple point of reference for site environmental management systems and procedures. The approved plan shall be implemented in full.

8. Prior to the commencement of development a Construction Management Plan shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  The provisions of the Construction Management Plan 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.

9. A landscape management plan, including long term design objectives, management responsibilities and maintenance schedules for all landscape areas, shall be submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority prior to the occupation of the development. The landscape management plan shall be carried out as approved.

10. Notwithstanding the provisions of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2008 (or any subsequent Order or statutory provision revoking or re-enacting the provisions of that Order), no garages, outbuildings or other extensions to a dwelling shall be erected unless expressly authorised.

11. 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.

12. Prior to the occupation of the dwellings hereby approved, the thermal glazing and mechanical ventilation outlined in the Noise Consultants Report (Wardel Armstrong August 2017) should be implemented in full and retained thereafter to ensure appropriate noise levels are achieved inside the living rooms and bedrooms.

13. Prior to first occupation of the dwellings hereby approved, the children's play area shall be completed in accordance with the details contained within drawing no LDS357-03B and retained as such thereafter.

14. 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.

15. If the approved sustainable drainage system is not adopted by a public body or statutory undertaker then, prior to the first occupation, a Management and Maintenance Plan for the sustainable drainage system relating to the lifetime of the development shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  This shall include: 

• The arrangements for adoption by an appropriate public body or statutory undertaker or details of provision for management and maintenance by a resident's management company.

•  A schedule for on-going inspections relating to performance and condition.

• Details for planned maintenance and a mechanism for remedial and urgent repair works. 

16. The residential units hereby permitted shall be occupied in accordance with the supporting statement - scheme for the provision of Affordable Housing, unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority.