Agenda item

APP/18/01016: Clive Watkin Estate Agent, 1 ROCKY LANE, HESWALL, CH60 0BY - Construction of 6no. apartments (2no. 3 bedroom and 4no. 2 bedroom), following demolition

Minutes:

The Corporate Director for Economic and Housing Growth submitted the above application for consideration.

 

A Petitioner addressed the Committee.

 

On a motion by Councillor Steve Foulkes and seconded by Councillor David Elderton 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 following approved plans:

 

Location Plan dated 20/08/2018; Proposed Site Plan (Drawing no. 580.002 Rev.K) dated 13.09.2018; Ground Floor Plan (Drawing no. 580.003 Rev.G) dated 15.11.2018; First & Second Floor Plan (Drawing no. 580.004 Rev.H) dated 15.11.2018; Proposed Elevations (Drawing no. 580.005 Rev.H) dated 15.11.2018; Proposed Vehicular Access (Drawing no. 580.009) dated 07.09.2018 and Proposed Front Boundary Wall & Gate (Drawing no. 580.012) dated 12.12.2018.

 

3. Before the commencement of any development, other than demolition works, a datum for measuring land levels shall be agreed in writing. Full details of proposed ground levels across the site and proposed finished floor levels shall be taken from that datum and submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority, notwithstanding any such detail shown on previously submitted plan(s). The development shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details and retained as such thereafter.

 

4. No materials shall be used on the external elevations or roof of the proposed development other than those referred to on the 'Materials Specification Sheet' received 14 December 2018.

 

5. Before the development hereby approved is completed or any apartment first occupied, whichever is the soonest, details and specification of the boundary treatment for the north, east and west site boundaries and the retaining structure for the southern boundary shall be submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority.  Thereafter, the boundary treatment thereby approved shall be provided in accordance with the approved details before any apartment is first occupied.

 

 

6. Before the commencement of any above ground construction works, a noise impact assessment that assesses the impact on the proposed residential development from the nearby commercial properties shall be undertaken and submitted to and agreed with the Local Planning Authority. Should any noise mitigation be necessary to protect the amenity of occupiers of the apartments, then those measures shall be implemented in full and a verification report submitted to and agreed with the Local Planning Authority prior to first occupation.

 

7. No surface water and/or land drainage shall be allowed to connect indirectly with the public sewerage network.

 

8. Before the development hereby approved is completed or any apartment first occupied, whichever is the soonest, a landscaping scheme shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority and shall include the following:

 

a) a scheme of landscaping, which shall include retention of the existing fir tree adjacent to the Rocky Lane boundary, together with measures for protection during the course of development;

b) a schedule of proposed native hedgerow, plant species, size and density and planting locations; and

c) an implementation programme. 

 

All planting, seeding or turfing comprised in the approved landscaping details shall be carried out in the first planting and seeding seasons following the first occupation of any apartment or the completion of the development, whichever is the soonest.  Any hedgerow or plants which within a period of five 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 consent to any variation.

 

9. Before the development hereby approved is first commenced, an arboricultural method statement detailing construction methods for the car parking area and the measures to be taken during construction to protect the health of the existing fir tree adjacent to the western boundary with Rocky Lane shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The measures contained in the approved arboricultural method statement shall be implemented in full and where relevant, retained as such thereafter.

 

 

10. No apartment shall be first occupied until the facilities for bicycle storage have been provided in accordance with the approved plans. These facilities shall thereafter be retained for bicycle parking.

 

11. Before any apartment hereby approved is first occupied, details for the recycling store as indicated on the approved 'Proposed Site Plan' (Drawing no. 580.002 Rev.K) shall be submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority and thereafter implemented in full accordance with the agreed details.

 

12. No apartment shall first be occupied until visibility splays of 2.4 metres by 70 metres in either direction at the proposed access junction with the vehicular carriageway at Rocky Lane have been provided clear of obstruction to visibility at or above a height of 1.0 metres above the carriageway level of Rocky Lane. Once created, these visibility splays shall be maintained clear of any such obstruction and retained for their intended purpose at all times.

 

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