The Assistant Director for Environmental Services submitted the above application for consideration.

A Ward Councillor addressed the Committee.

On a motion for refusal moved by Councillor K Hodson and seconded by Councillor E Boult it was lost (5:8)

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

Resolved (8:5) 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 26 March 2018 and listed as follows: B105 Rev B, B106 Rev B, B107 Rev B, B108 Rev B & B109 Rev B.

3. Before any construction commences, samples of the facing 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 part of the development shall be brought into use until the existing vehicular and/or pedestrian access on to Telegraph 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.

5. Details of all fencing, walls, gateways and means of enclosure shall be submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority before the development hereby approved is completed and the work shall be carried out prior to occupation, in accordance with the details so approved, and subsequently maintained to the satisfaction of the Local Planning Authority.

6. Provision is to be made for the parking of 5 cars on the forecourt of the property and for suitable landscaping, in accordance with a scheme to be submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority, before the development hereby approved is commenced. Such parking and landscaping is to be provided prior to occupation of the premises and shall be maintained thereafter to the satisfaction of the Local Planning Authority.

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. 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.

9.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.

10. The first floor bedroom window on the side elevation adjacent to 275 Telegraph Road shall be obscurely glazed and non-opening, up to a height of 1.7m above the bedroom floor level. This shall be installed prior to the first occupation of the flats hereby approved, and retained as such thereafter.