Agenda item

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

The Committee considered application 16/01545/F for the change of use of Building 103 to A Heritage Centre (Use Class D1) and Building 315 for storage and distribution (Use Class B8) and associated works Heyford Park Estates Limited at 103 & 315 Heyford Park, Camp Road, Upper Heyford, Bicester, OX25 5HA.

In reaching their decision, the Committee considered the officers’ report, presentation and written update.

Resolved

That application 16/01545/F 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 application shall be carried out strictly in accordance with the following plans and documents: Application forms, Design and Access Statement and drawings numbered:

              D0341 -107 Site Location Plan

              6002.02.D Proposed Arrangement(Building 103)

              UPP/85/315/AB1 Floor Plan (Building 315)

3                That prior to the commencement of the development hereby approved, an access phasing strategy shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority, showing the transition of the access to the site in accordance with the long term strategy for the site.

4                Unless otherwise previously agreed in writing, the development shall be undertaken in accordance with the routing agreement approved under schedule 20 of the Unilateral Undertaking dated 23rd January 2009.

5                No part of the development shall be commenced until a detailed green travel plan, prepared in accordance with the Department of Transport's Best Practice Guidance Note "Using the planning process to secure travel plans" and the emerging Oxfordshire County Council guidance on Developer Travel Plans, including an HGV routeing agreement, has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

6                This permission shall exclude the details of parking layout shown on the submitted drawings and development shall not commence until a revised plan showing car parking provision for vehicles to be accommodated within the site of each building together with any areas for manoeuvring, has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning and such parking and manoeuvring facilities shall be laid out, surfaced, drained and completed in accordance with the approved plan before either building is brought into use..  The car parking spaces shall be retained for the parking of vehicles at all times thereafter.

7                Prior to the first use or occupation of the development hereby permitted, covered cycle parking facilities shall be provided on the site in accordance with details to be first submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  The covered cycle parking facilities so provided shall thereafter be permanently retained and maintained for the parking of cycles in connection with the development.

8                All new works and works of making good to Building 103 shall be carried out in materials and detailed to match the adjoining original fabric except where shown otherwise on the approved drawings.

9                All plant, machinery, mechanical ventilation equipment and ducting, other than that shown on the approved plans, shall be installed internally. No other plant, machinery, mechanical ventilation equipment, flues or ducting shall be placed on the outside of the building without the prior written permission of the Local Planning Authority.

10             Prior to Building 315 being brought into use, a scheme shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority which specifies the provisions to be made for the control of noise emanating from the building or its adjacent service area.

11             That no goods, materials, plant or machinery shall be stored repaired, operated or displayed in the open without the prior express planning consent of the Local Planning Authority.

12             Neither of the buildings shall be occupied until screened provision for the storage of refuse and recycling facilities has been made in accordance with details as submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  Thereafter the facilities shall be retained solely for their intended purpose and refuse and recycling items shall be placed and stored only in this storage area.

13             Details of any proposed external lighting shall be provided before it is erected on either building. The development shall be undertaken in accordance with the details as approved

14             No signs or advertisements shall be erected on either building unless a signage strategy has previously been submitted to and agreed in writing with the Local Planning Authority. Any proposed signage shall comply with the terms of the signage strategy

15             Prior to the occupation of Building 103, 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.

16             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.