The Senior Planning Officer presented the report of the Director of Regeneration and Place in relation to the above application for consideration.

Ward Councillor, Elizabeth Grey addressed the Committee.

On a motion by Councillor Kathy Hodson and seconded by the Chair it was –

Resolved (unanimously) – 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 26th July 2023?and listed as follows:?P359.2_202,?P359.2_203G,?P359.2_204,?P359.2_205A, P359.2_206B,?P359.2_207B and P359.2_208B.?

3.?Prior to the commencement of the development, a full scheme of works for 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 Local Planning Authority. The development shall not be occupied until the approved works have been completed in accordance with the approved scheme.

4.?Before any construction commences, details of the brick and roof 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.

5. Details of the species mix, height and density of new planting shown on the approved plan ref. P359.2_203G shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority prior to first occupation of the proposed development. All planting, seeding and/or turfing comprised in the approved details and the approved landscaping of plan ref. P359.2_203G shall be carried out in the first planting and seeding seasons following the occupation of the building?or the completion of the development, whichever is the sooner, and any shrubs 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.

6. The hard?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.

7.?The development shall not be occupied until the parking has?been provided in accordance with the approved plans and the areas?shall thereafter be retained for that use and shall not be used other than for the parking?of motor vehicles.??

8. The western and eastern side facing windows of the approved bungalows shall be obscure glazed and non-opening (with the exception of an opening light 1.7 metres above the floor of the room in which the window is installed) and thereafter be permanently retained as such.

9. Notwithstanding the provisions of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (or any subsequent Order or statutory provision revoking or re-enacting the provisions of that order) no window shall be installed to the side elevations of the approved bungalows where facing the eastern front elevations of houses on Edgemoor Close and the western rear elevations of houses on Everleigh Close unless it is obscure glazed and non-opening (with the exception of an opening light 1.7 metres above the floor of the room in which the window is installed) and thereafter be permanently retained as such.