Agenda item

APP/20/00012 - Solar Campus, 235 Leasowe road, Wallasey, CH45 8RE - 3G sports pitch with external floodlighting

Minutes:

The Corporate Director of Regeneration and Place submitted the above application for consideration.

 

An Objector addressed the Committee

 

The Applicant addressed the Committee

 

A Ward Councillor addressed the Committee

 

It was moved by Councillor Ian Lewis and seconded by Councillor Kathy Hodson that “Committee believes that application  APP/20/00012 will lead to an increase in traffic and parking issues in and off site and does not believe that those issues have been satisfactorily resolved with residents. The Planning Committee therefore defers the application so that further discussions between all parties can take place.”

 

The motion was put and lost (4:9)

 

It was then moved by Councillor Stuart Kelly and seconded by Councillor Andy Corkhill that the application be approved subject to additional conditions as follows:

 

A scheme of landscape proposals including a timetable of works shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority prior to first use of the proposed development. The scheme shall include but not be limited to full plans and specifications for all hard and soft landscape works including proposals for replacement tree planting and indications of all existing trees and hedgerows on the land, including those to be retained.

 

All planting in the approved details of landscaping shall be carried out in the first planting seasons following the completion of the development or prior to use of the pitch hereby approved, whichever is the sooner, and any trees, shrubs, hedges or plants which within a period of five years from the completion of 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.

 

PRIOR TO FIRST USE of the proposed development hereby approved, full details of secure covered & lockable cycle parking and/or storage facilities shall be 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. 

 

Resolved (10:3) 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 30 December 2019 and listed as follows: 98_2019-01 Rev. B, 98_2019-02 Rev. A, 98_2019-03 Rev. A

 

3. No tree felling, scrub clearance, hedgerow removal, vegetation management is to take place during the period 1 March to 31 August inclusive. If it is necessary to undertake works during the bird breeding season then all buildings, trees, scrub, hedgerows and vegetation 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 are required to be submitted for approval and agreed in writing.

 

4. The development hereby permitted shall not be brought into use until details of bird boxes to include number, type and location on an appropriately scaled plan as well as timing of installation, has been provided for approval and implemented in accordance with those details.

 

5. Prior to first use, details of the floodlighting shall be submitted to an approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. For the avoidance of doubt, the submitted details shall include (but not be limited to) beam orientation, light spill, lux levels and proposed hours of illumination. Regard should be had to Guidance Note 08/18 Bats and Artificial Lighting of the Institute of Lighting Professionals to ensure that the lighting for the proposed development is considered and will not adversely affect the functionality of the ecological receptors. The development shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details.

 

6. Prior to first use, the parking area as shown on 98_2019-01 Rev. A shall be surfaced and laid out for vehicles to park, turn and enter and exit the site in a forward gear in accordance with details that shall first have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The area shall thereafter be kept available at all times for the parking of vehicles. 

 

7. Notwithstanding the submitted details, prior to first use, details of all fences and other means of enclosure shall be submitted to and agreed in writing with the Local Planning Authority.

 

8. A scheme of landscape proposals including a timetable of works shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority prior to first use of the proposed development. The scheme shall include but not be limited to full plans and specifications for all hard and soft landscape works including proposals for replacement tree planting and indications of all existing trees and hedgerows on the land, including those to be retained.

 

All planting in the approved details of landscaping shall be carried out in the first planting seasons following the completion of the development or prior to use of the pitch hereby approved, whichever is the sooner, and any trees, shrubs, hedges or plants which within a period of five years from the completion of 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. PRIOR TO FIRST USE of the proposed development hereby approved, full details of secure covered & lockable cycle parking and/or storage facilities shall be 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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