Agenda item

Approved, subject to various requirements to be set out in the minutes

The Committee considered application 15/01006/F for the erection of a three storey studio school with associated landscaping and car/cycle parking at land adjacent to Bicester Community College, Bicester for Activate Learning

Mr Lee Nichols, the applicant addressed the Committee in support of the application.

In reaching their decision, the Committee considered the officers’ report, presentation and address of the public speaker.

Resolved

That application 15/01006F be approved subject to the following conditions:

1 The development to which this permission relates shall be begun not later than the expiration of three years beginning with the date of this permission.

2 Except where otherwise stipulated by condition, the development shall be carried out strictly in accordance with the following plans and drawings: 15003/ E(PA)0002 Rev. P2, 15003/ L(PA)0004 Rev. P2, 15003/ L(PA)0005 Rev. P2, 15003/ S(PA)0002 Rev. P2, L-1509-PRP-003 Rev. 02, L-1509-PRP-002 Rev. 02, L-1509-GAP-001 Rev. 02 and L-1509-GAP-002 Rev. 02.

3 Prior to the commencement of the development hereby approved, a landscaping

scheme shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

The scheme for landscaping the site shall include:-

(a) details of the proposed tree and shrub planting including their species,         number, sizes and positions, together with grass seeded/turfed areas,

(b) details of the existing trees and hedgerows to be retained as well as those to be felled, including existing and proposed soil levels at the base of each tree/hedgerow and the minimum distance between the base of the tree and the nearest edge of any excavation,

(c) details of the hard surface areas, including pavements, pedestrian areas, reduced-dig areas, crossing points and steps.

4 All planting, seeding or turfing comprised in the approved details of landscaping shall be carried out in accordance with BS 4428:1989 Code of Practice for general landscape operations (excluding hard surfaces), or the most up to date and current British Standard, in the first planting and seeding seasons following the occupation of the building(s) or on the completion of the development, whichever is the sooner. Any trees, herbaceous planting and shrubs 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 current/next planting season with others of similar size and species.

5 Prior to the commencement of the development hereby approved, a Tree Protection Plan undertaken in accordance with BS:5837:2012 and all subsequent amendments and revisions shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority setting out how all retained trees identified in the landscaping scheme will be safeguarded during construction. Thereafter, all works on site shall be carried out in accordance with the approved tree protection plan.

6 Prior to the commencement of the development hereby approved, full details of all service trenches, pipe runs or drains and any other excavation, earth movement or mounding required in connection with the development, including the identification and location of all existing and proposed trees, shrubs and hedgerows within influencing distance of such services, shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Thereafter, the development shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details.

7 All agreed service trenches, pipe runs, drains or any other excavation to be constructed within the agreed Root Protection Area (RPA) of the tree/trees on the site shall be undertaken in accordance with National Joint Utility Group ‘Guidelines for the Planning, Installation and Maintenance of Utility apparatus in Proximity to Trees - Volume 4 and all subsequent revisions and amendments thereof.

8 Prior to the commencement of the development hereby approved, a detailed scheme for the discharge of surface water from the site shall be submitted to, and approved in writing by, the Local Planning Authority.  Thereafter, and prior to the commencement of any building works on the site the approved surface water drainage scheme shall be carried out and prior to the first occupation of any building to which the scheme relates the approved foul sewage drainage scheme shall be implemented. All drainage works shall be laid out and constructed in accordance with the Water Authorities Association's current edition "Sewers for Adoption". The scheme shall include the following:

Discharge Rates

• Discharge Volumes

    • Maintenance and management of SUDS features (this may be secured by a Section 106 Agreement)

    • Sizing of features – attenuation volume

    • Infiltration tests to be undertaken in accordance with BRE365

    • Detailed drainage layout with pipe numbers

    • SUDS (list the suds features mentioned within the FRA to ensure they are carried forward into the detailed drainage strategy)

    • Network drainage calculations

    • Phasing plans

    • Flood Risk Assessment

9 The development hereby approved shall be carried out strictly in accordance with the recommendations set out in Section 6 of the Preliminary Ecological Assessment submitted with the application, which was prepared by Middlemarch Environmental dated May 2015. The location and types of at least two nesting/roosting provisions in accordance with the above shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority prior to first occupation of the approved development and carried out as approved prior to the development being brought into use.

10 The building hereby approved shall be constructed to at least BREEAM ‘Very Good’ standard and shall not be occupied until such minimum standard has been achieved in accordance with all of the measures set out in the submitted ‘Energy Feasibility Assessment’ produced by Hulley & Kirkwood Consulting Engineers Ltd and dated July 2015.

11 Prior to commencement of the development hereby approved, a Construction Traffic Management Plan (CTMP) shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Thereafter, the development shall be implemented and operated in accordance with the approved CTMP at all times.

12 Prior to the first occupation of the development hereby approved, a Travel Plan, prepared in accordance with the Department of Transport’s Best Practice Guidance Note “Using the Planning Process to Secure Travel Plans”, shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Thereafter, the approved Travel Plan shall be implemented and operated in accordance with the approved details.

The Travel Plan shall include at least the following information:

    -  Details of a dedicated shuttle service and the arrangements for the transportation of students to and from the school;

    -       Measures to encourage staff and student travel by foot and cycle;

    -       Measures to encourage staff and students to travel by bus;

    -       Details of any off-site car parking/drop-off arrangements;

    -  Details of monitoring arrangements to include the submission of an    annual report to the local planning authority that assesses the effectiveness of the Travel Plan and sets out measures to try to reduce car travel to and from the school during the following year and thereafter.

13 A travel information pack for staff and students shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority prior to first occupation of the development. This travel information pack shall then be distributed and made available to all new students both in the first year of operation and thereafter in accordance with a scheme that shall be approved in writing by the local planning authority prior to first occupation of the development.

14  Prior to the first occupation of the development hereby approved (other than for construction purposes) a Management Plan relating to operations at the approved new school development as well as the existing school currently known as Bicester Community College shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority. This Management Plan shall include details on at least the following matters:

     - Specified operating hours of both the proposed Bicester Studio School and the existing secondary school (Bicester Community College) to ensure peak arrivals and departures from the two institutional premises are kept separate from each other as well as peak times of other neighbouring development;

     - The means of controlling staff and pupil movements to ensure their arrival and departure times do not materially fall outside the above specified times;

     - Details of servicing and waste management arrangements to ensure that this does not take place during in and around peak hours;

     - Means of monitoring and enforcing student car parking and parent/guardian drop-offs at the site and on the Queens Avenue access road;

      - Arrangements for school field trips and outings including times during which arrival and departure of vehicles into the Queens Avenue access road will be restricted as well as arrangements for the parking and waiting of such vehicles;

     - Details of arrangements to prevent notable events taking place at the existing Bicester Community College at the same or similar times.

The approved Management Plan shall be implemented and operated from the point of first occupation of the development. Thereafter, any change to the approved Management Plan shall require the formal prior written approval of the local planning authority.

15 Prior to the commencement of the development hereby approved, samples of the external materials to be used in the construction of the development shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Thereafter the development shall be carried out in accordance with the samples so approved.

16 Prior to the commencement of the development hereby approved, an Arboricultural Method Statement (AMS), undertaken in accordance with BS:5837:2012 and all subsequent amendments and revisions shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Thereafter, all works on site shall be carried out in accordance with the approved AMS.

17 Prior to the first occupation of the development hereby approved, a landscape management plan, to include the timing of the implementation of the plan, long term design objectives, management responsibilities, maintenance schedules and procedures for the replacement of failed planting for all landscape areas shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Thereafter the landscape management plan shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details.

18 Prior to first occupation of the approved development details of the boundary treatments to be used in the development shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority. The development shall not be occupied until the boundary treatments have been laid out in full as approved and thereafter so retained.