Agenda item

APP/20/00720: Teviot Bank, 6 COTTAGE LANE, GAYTON, CH60 8PB - Demolition of existing dwelling and erection of building containing 8 No. apartments, with associated landscaping, parking, bike store and bin store

Minutes:

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

 

The Lead Petitioner addressed the Committee.

 

The Applicant addressed the Committee.

 

A Ward Councillor addressed the Committee.

 

It was moved by the Chair and seconded by Councillor B Kenny that the application be approved subject to the following conditions.

 

The motion was put and carried (9:0). 

 

Councillor A Gardner lost connection during consideration of this matter and therefore (having regard to the LLG Remote Meetings Protocol and Procedure Rules) took no part in the decision and was unable to vote on this matter as he had not heard all the facts.

 

Resolved (9:0) – That the application be approved with 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 2nd June 2020 and listed as follows: 19-425-001; 19-425-002; 19-425-003; 19-425-005; 19-425-101; 19-425-201; 19-425-202; 19-425-203; 19-425-204, and the amendment plans received on 2nd October 2020 and listed as follows:19-425-205 A; 19-425-206 A; 19-425-207 A; 19-425-301 B; 19-425-302 B; 19-425-401 B; 19-425-601; 19-425-602; 19-425-701

 

3. Before any construction above ground level commences, samples of the 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. The proposed bin and cycle storage facilities, as shown on Drawings 202 and 203, shall be provided as shown prior to first occupation of the development and retained as such for use at all times afterwards, unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority

 

5. Prior to the construction of the new access, a full scheme of works for the new access onto Long Meadow, including adequate visibility splays as shown on the approved drawings and the reinstatement to standard footway levels of any existing vehicle accesses from the highway that are rendered obsolete by the development shall be submitted and approved in writing by the LPA. The development shall not be occupied until the approved works have been completed in accordance with the approved scheme.

 

6. The windows above ground floor level in the north-eastern elevation (serving the stairwell) shall be obscurely glazed prior to first occupation and shall be retained as such thereafter

 

7. No development shall take place until a drainage scheme for the site has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The scheme shall provide for the disposal of foul, surface and land water, and include an assessment of the potential to dispose of surface and land water by sustainable means. Thereafter the scheme shall be implemented in accordance with the approved details prior to the occupation of the development and no further foul water, surface water and land drainage shall be allowed to connect directly or indirectly with the public sewerage system.

 

8. PRIOR TO COMMENCEMENT OF DEVELOPMENT, detailed drawings indicating the finished site and ground floor levels intended at the completion of the development in relation to the existing site levels and the levels of the adjoining land shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The scheme shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details.

 

9. No development above ground level shall take place before details of a scheme of landscaping, which shall include details of both hard and soft landscaping works, all boundary treatment, earthworks and retained trees, has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The scheme as approved shall be carried out no later than the first planting season following the completion of development. Any trees, shrubs or plants that die within a period of five years from the completion of development, or are removed and/or become seriously damaged or diseased in that period, shall be replaced (and if necessary continue to be replaced) in the first available planting season with others of similar size and species, unless the Local Planning Authority gives prior written permission for any variation

 

10. The development shall be carried out in accordance with the submitted arboricultural method statement (Arbtech, 1 July 2020) unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority

 

11. Prior to the commencement of site clearance, demolition, storage of plant (non-tree related), materials, machinery, including site huts and WCs, Tree Protection Barriers shall be installed and shall conform to the specification within the method statement. The Tree Protection Barriers and Ground Protection shall not be removed, breached or altered without prior written authorisation from the Local Planning Authority or client arboriculturist, but shall remain in a functional condition throughout the entire development, until all development related machinery and materials have been removed from site. If such protection measures are damaged beyond effective functioning then works that may compromise the protection of trees shall cease until the protection can be repaired or replaced with a specification that shall provide a similar degree of protection.

 

The tree protection measures shall not be dismantled until all construction related machinery and materials have been removed from site and not without written authorisation from the local planning authority or client arboriculturist. Once authorisation has been given the protection measures can be removed by hand and transported off site. During which time, no machinery or vehicles shall enter the area previously protected. No excavations, storage of materials, soil stripping, the raising or lowering of levels or the laying of hard surfacing without prior approval of the arboricultural consultant and / or the Local Planning Authority. Any issues regarding tree protection should be agreed and implemented prior to commencement of development.

 

12. The following activities must not be carried out under any circumstances:

 

a,  No fires to be lit within 20 metres of existing trees and shrubs to be retained.

b,  Storage of removed topsoil should be located outside of the Root Protection Areas of retained trees and away from those parts of the site allocated for soft landscaping.

c,  No equipment, signage, fencing, tree protection barriers, materials, components, vehicles or structures  shall be attached to or supported by a retained tree.

d,  No builders debris or other materials to be stored within the Root Protection Areas.

e,  No mixing of cement, associate additives, chemicals, fuels, tar and other oil based liquids and powders shall occur within 10 metres of any tree Root Protection Area. A dedicated washout area shall be a used and located not within 10 metres of any Root Protection f,  No alterations or variations to the approved works or tree protection schemes shall be carried out without the prior written approval of the LPA.

g, No excavations, trenches, stripping, cultivation with a rotavator or changes in surface level to occur within the Root Protection Area, unless authorised.

 

13. NO DEVELOPMENT SHALL TAKE PLACE UNTIL a Construction Management Plan or Construction Method Statement for the construction of the development hereby approved has been submitted to, and approved in writing by, the Local Planning Authority.  The construction works shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details. 

 

Details submitted in respect of the method statement shall provide for routes for construction traffic, the provision of parking facilities for contractors and visitors during all stages of the development, hours of operation, the provision of a means of storage and/or delivery for all plant, site huts, site facilities and materials and shall provide for wheel cleaning facilities during the site preparation and construction stages of the development and/or method(s) of prevention of mud being carried onto the highway.

 

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