Agenda item

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

The Committee considered application 16/00363/F for the provision of an all-weather astro turf pitch and lighting, and alteration of the existing sports hall and changing facilities including the provision of an external climbing wall at Banbury Academy, Ruskin Road, Banbury, OX16 9HY for Mr M Gough.

Edna Sparkes and Margaret Williams, local residents, addressed the committee in objection to the application.

Louise Steele, agent for the application, addressed the committee in support of the application.

In reaching their decision, the committee considered the officers’ report, presentation and written update and the addresses of the public speakers.

Resolved

That application 16/00363/F be approved, subject 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 documents: Application forms, Design and Access Statement (April 2016), Framptons’ Construction Travel Management Plan, Halliday Lighting Impact Study, Ecological Consultancy letter from Aspect Ecology Ltd dated 29 April 2016, Transport Statement (May 2016), Arboricultural Impact Assessment (May 2016), Noise Impact Assessment dated 6^th May 2016, Flood Risk Assessment (March 2016) and drawings labelled: 0300 Rev. C, 0312 Rev. 01, 0313 Rev. 00, 0314 Rev. B, 0315, 0316 Rev. A, 0317 Rev. A, 0321 Rev. B and GUK-MUK231-09.

3.            Within 12 months of the date of this permission, a community use agreement prepared in consultation with Sport England shall be  submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority, and a copy of the completed approved agreement has been provided to the Local Planning Authority. The agreement shall apply to the Artificial Grass pitch, Natural turf pitches and sports hall and include details of pricing policy, hours of use, access by non-educational establishment users, management responsibilities and a mechanism for review, and anything else which the Local Planning Authority in consultation with Sport England considers necessary in order to secure the effective community use of the facilities. The development shall not be used at any time other than in strict compliance with the approved agreement."

4.            Before the Artificial Grass Pitch is brought into use, a Management and Maintenance Scheme for the facility including management responsibilities, a maintenance schedule and a mechanism for review shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority [after consultation with Sport England]. This should include a sinking fund to ensure the replacement of the Artificial Grass Pitch within a specified period given by the manufacturers. The measures set out in the approved scheme shall be complied with in full, with effect from commencement of use of the Artificial Grass Pitch.

5.            Prior to commencement of the development hereby approved, the SuDS design for the site shall be required to be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. These details must demonstrate how the system shall be managed and maintained thereafter in accordance with the agreed management and maintenance plan.

6.            Prior to the first use 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. 

7.            That all planting, seeding or turfing comprised in the approved details of landscaping shall be carried out 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;  and that any trees 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 next planting season with others of similar size and species, unless the Local Planning Authority gives written consent for any variation.

8.            The existing hedgerow along the north-eastern boundary of the site shall be retained and properly maintained at a height of not less than 3m metres, and if any hedgerow plant dies within five years from the completion of the development it shall be replaced and shall thereafter be properly maintained in accordance with this condition.

9.            a)  No retained tree shall be cut down, uprooted, damaged or destroyed, nor shall any retained tree be pruned in any manner, be it branches, stems or roots, other than in accordance with the approved plans and particulars, without the prior written approval of the Local Planning Authority. All tree works shall be carried out in accordance with BS3998: Recommendations for Tree Works.

b)  If any retained tree is cut down, uprooted, destroyed or dies, another tree shall be planted in the same place in the next planting season following the removal of that tree, full details of which shall be firstly submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

In this condition a “retained tree” is an existing tree which shall be retained in accordance with the approved plans and particulars; and paragraphs (a) and (b) shall have effect until the expiration of five years from the date of the [insert].

10.         That the areas all-weather Astro-Turf Pitch shall not be used between the hours of 21.00 and 08.00.