Agenda item


18 Bridge Street, Banbury

Decision:

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

Minutes:

The Committee considered application 17/00658/F for the change of use of an existing building to create a coffee shop (Class A3) and 1 no. 1 bedroom unit at ground floor level and 3 no. residential units (2 no. studio units and 1 no. 2 bed unit) at first floor level at 18 Bridge Street, Banbury for Brickmort Investments.

 

In reaching its decision the Committee considered the officers’ report and presentation.

 

Resolved

 

That application 17/00658/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 conditions attached to this permission, the development shall be carried out strictly in accordance with the Application Form and Drawing Number 12659-C100-F.

 

 3         Prior to the commencement of the development hereby approved, full details of the refuse bin storage for the site, including location and compound enclosure details, shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  Thereafter and prior to the first occupation of the dwellings, the refuse bin storage area shall be provided in accordance with the approved details and retained unobstructed except for the storage of refuse bins.

                       

 4         Prior to the first occupation of the development hereby approved, covered cycle parking facilities shall be provided in accordance with details which shall be firstly submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  Thereafter, the covered cycle parking facilities shall be permanently retained and maintained for the parking of cycles in connection with the development.

                       

 5         Notwithstanding the details submitted and prior to the commencement of the development hereby approved, full details of the pedestrian access to the site from Bridge Street (adjacent to 15 - 17 Bridge Street), including specification details of the proposed pedestrian gate (which is considered to provide an element of public art within the site) and access arrangements, shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Thereafter, and prior to the first occupation of the development, the pedestrian access gate shall be installed, and the pedestrian access permanently retained and maintained in accordance with the approved details.

                                   

 6         Notwithstanding the submitted details and 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.

                        Thereafter, the development shall be carried out in strict accordance with the approved landscaping scheme.

           

 7         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.

           

 8         Prior to the commencement of the development hereby approved, full details of a scheme for acoustically insulating all habitable rooms within the apartments such that internal noise levels do not exceed the criteria specified in Table 4 of the British Standard BS 8233:2014, 'Guidance on sound insulation and noise reduction for buildings', shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Thereafter, and prior to the first occupation of development, the apartments shall be insulated and maintained in accordance with the approved details.

                       

 9         If, during development, contamination not previously identified is found to be present at the site, no further development shall be carried out until full details of a remediation strategy detailing how the unsuspected contamination shall be dealt with has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Thereafter the remediation strategy shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details.

                       

10       No development shall commence until a Construction Traffic Management Plan has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. This plan shall include wheel washing facilities, a restriction on construction & delivery traffic during the peak traffic periods, details of construction vehicle parking/waiting areas, compound details as well as an agreed route for HGV traffic to the development site. The approved Plan shall be implemented in full throughout the entirety of the construction phase of the development.

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