Agenda item

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

The committee considered application 16/02370/F for the erection of 85 dwellings with public open space, associated parking, landscaping, new vehicular accesses and servicing at Church Leys Field, Blackthorn Road, Ambrosden for Bellway Homes Limited and Archstone Ambrosden Limited.

 

Jonathan Porter, the applicant’s agent, addressed the committee in support of the application.

 

In reaching their decision, the committee considered the officer’s report, presentation and the address of the public speaker.

 

Resolved

 

That application 16/02370/F be approved subject to the following conditions with the issuing of the decision notice delegated to the Head of Development Management only following the satisfactory completion of a legal agreement with both Cherwell District Council and Oxfordshire County Council to secure the items listed in paragraph 8.68 of the report:

 

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

             

2                Except where otherwise stipulated by condition, the development shall be carried out strictly in accordance with the following plans and documents:

             

3                Prior to the commencement of the development hereby approved, samples of the external walls and roofing materials to be used in the construction of the buildings within 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.

             

4                Notwithstanding any details that might be shown to the contrary in the approved plans, all windows to be installed on buildings within the development shall be flush fitting balanced casements that are recessed a minimum of 75mm within the window surrounds unless otherwise agreed in writing by the local planning authority.

             

5                Prior to the commencement of the development hereby approved, a plan showing full details of the existing and proposed site levels as well as finished floor levels within 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 approved finished floor levels plan.

             

6                Prior to the commencement of the development hereby approved, full details of the enclosures along all boundaries and within the site shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Thereafter, those means of enclosure shall be completed in accordance with the approved details prior to the first occupation of any part of the development that would be served by those means of enclosures.

             

7                Prior to the first occupation of any dwelling, 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 any dwelling the refuse bin storage facilities for that dwelling shall be provided in accordance with the approved details and retained as such thereafter.

             

8                The dwelling(s) hereby approved shall not be occupied until 3 bins for the purposes of recycling, residual and garden waste have been provided for each of the approved dwellings, in accordance with the following specification:

              - One 240 litre blue wheeled bin for the collection of dry recyclable material;

              - One 240 litre green wheeled bin for the collection of residual waste;

              - One 240 litre brown bin for the collection of garden waste material

             

9                No dwelling shall be occupied until it has been constructed to ensure that it achieves a water efficiency limit of 110 litres person/day and shall continue to accord with such a limit thereafter.

             

10             Prior to the first occupation of any dwelling hereby approved, full details of the fire hydrants to be provided on the site shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Thereafter and prior to the first occupation of the development, the fire hydrants shall be provided or enhanced in accordance with the approved details and retained as such thereafter.

             

11             Notwithstanding any provisions contained within the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development Order) 2015 (and any Order or Statutory Instrument amending, revoking or re-enacting that order), all water supply, foul water, energy and communication infrastructure on the site to serve the development shall be provided underground and retained as such thereafter unless with the prior written approval of the local planning authority.

             

12             Prior to the first occupation 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.

 

13             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. All hardsurfacing shall be carried out prior to substantial completion of the development. 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.

 

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

             

15             The development hereby approved shall be constructed strictly in accordance with the recommendations and specifications set out in the submitted Arboricultural Assessment (ref: T_EDP2488_04b) and the Arboricultural Addendum Statement (ref: T_EDP2488_06a_210617) .

             

16             Except to allow for the construction of the means of access and associated visibility splays the existing hedgerow along the northern boundary with Blackthorn Road shall be retained and properly maintained at a height of not less than 2 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.

             

17             Prior to the first occupation of any dwelling within the development, full details of the equipment, layout, drainage, surfacing, landscaping and specification of the combined Local Area of Play and Local Equipped Area of Play (LAP/LEAP) shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Thereafter the combined LAP/LEAP shall be provided as approved and retained at all times thereafter as a publicly available play area.

             

18             Notwithstanding anything shown in the approved plans and documents, the development shall not begin until a surface water drainage scheme for the site, based on sustainable drainage principles and an assessment of the hydrological and hydro-geological context of the development, has been submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority. The scheme shall subsequently be fully implemented in accordance with the approved details prior to substantial completion of the development. The scheme shall include:

               Discharge Rates

               Discharge Volumes

               Maintenance and management of SUDS features

               Sizing of features - attenuation volume

               Infiltration in accordance with BRE365

               Detailed drainage layout with pipe numbers

               SUDS - (in a treatment train approach to improve water quality)

               Network drainage calculations

               Phasing

             

19             Prior to the commencement of the development hereby approved, a detailed scheme of foul drainage for the development shall be submitted to, and approved in writing by, the Local Planning Authority (in consultation with Thames Water).  Thereafter, and prior to the first occupation of any dwelling, the foul drainage scheme approved shall be shall be completed so far as is necessary to serve that dwelling. All drainage works shall be laid out and constructed in accordance with the Water Authorities Association's current edition "Sewers for Adoption".

             

20             The development hereby approved shall proceed in accordance with the Flood Risk Assessment Technical Note prepared by Clarkebond (dated 21-04-2017 and ref: WB03 884 - TN06 Rev. V2) accompanying the application unless otherwise previously approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. There shall be no built development within the area of land shown as Flood Zones 2 and 3 within the submitted Flood Risk Assessment and neither shall any spoil or materials be deposited or stored on that part of the site lying within the area shown as Flood Zone 3 (1 in 100 year flood event) within the Flood Risk Assessment.

             

21             Prior to the commencement of the development, a Construction Management Plan (CMP) shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority which shall include details of:

             

              - Construction traffic management and contractor parking;

              - Compound and storage details;

              - Spoil management;

              - Measures to be taken to control hours of working, noise, dust and vibration resulting from construction;

              - Details of the consultation and communication to be carried out with local residents;

              - Site Manager details and that of relevant personnel.

             

              Thereafter the development shall be carried out in accordance with the approved CMP at all times unless otherwise agreed in writing beforehand by the local planning authority.

 

22             Prior to the first occupation of the development hereby approved, full details of the external lighting within the site shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local planning Authority. Thereafter, the lighting shall be carried out prior to first occupation of the development and retained thereafter in accordance with the approved details.

             

23             Prior to the commencement of the development hereby approved, full details of the means of vehicular access between the site and Blackthorn Road including position, road markings, layout, and vision splays shall have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. No dwelling shall be occupied on the site until the means of vehicular access has been constructed and available for continued use in accordance with the approved details.

             

24             Other than the approved vehicular access, no other means of vehicular access whatsoever shall be formed or used between the site and the highway.

             

25             Prior to the first occupation of any of the dwellings hereby approved, all of the new roads and footpaths within the site (except for the final surfacing thereof) shall be laid out, constructed, lit and drained in accordance with Oxfordshire County Council's 'Conditions and Specifications for the Construction of Roads' and its subsequent amendments. Within 3 months' of the first occupation of the final dwelling along any particular new street/road, the roads, streets and paths providing access to those dwellings from Blackthorn Road  shall be fully completed (including final surfacing).

             

26             Prior to the first occupation of any dwelling, the motor vehicle parking, turning and manoeuvring areas serving that dwelling as shown on the approved plans shall have been fully laid out and available for use and shall be retained unobstructed except for vehicle parking thereafter.  

             

27             Prior to the commencement of the development hereby approved, full specification details of the proposed new footway/cycleway along the south side of Blackthorn Road connecting the development and Ploughley Road which shall include construction, layout, surfacing, lighting and drainage, shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Thereafter and prior to the first occupation of any of the dwellings, the footway/cycleway shall be constructed in accordance with the approved details.

             

28             No dwelling shall be occupied until cycle parking provision to serve that dwelling has been provided according to details that have been submitted to and agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority. All cycle parking shall be retained unobstructed except for the parking of cycles at all times thereafter.

             

29             Public footpath 131/7 shall not be diverted, stopped up or obstructed in any way until the proposed diversion to the footpath as shown in the approved site layout plans has been laid out, completed and made available for public use in accordance with details that shall first have been submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority. Such details shall include the means of construction, surfacing, lighting and drainage.

 

30             Until such time as public footpath 131/7 has been successfully diverted in accordance with the requirements of condition 29, no development shall take place within 10m of the public footpath until it has been protected and fenced to accommodate a width of a minimum of 5m in accordance with details that shall first have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Thereafter, the existing public footpath shall remain fenced and available for use up until the diversion required by condition 29 has been successfully completed and made available for continued public use.

             

31             All new roads, streets and paths within the development shall be available for use by the public as pedestrians in the same manner as those adopted by the local highway authority.

             

32             No more than 45 dwellings shall be occupied as part of the development until the visitor parking spaces shown in the approved site layout plan have been completed and made available for continued public use.

             

33             Prior to first use of the combined LAP/LEAP facility, the cycle parking areas adjacent to it as shown on the approved site layout plan shall be fully laid out and made available for public use.

 

34             Prior to the first occupation of any dwelling, a revised Residential Travel Plan meeting the requirements set out in the Oxfordshire County Council guidance document, "Transport for New Developments; Transport Assessments and Travel Plans" shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  The development shall thereafter be carried out in accordance with the approved revised Residential Travel Plan.

 

35             All porch canopies shall feature external materials for roof coverings that match those used in the construction of the main roof of the dwelling that they relate to unless otherwise approved in writing beforehand by the local planning authority.

 

36             All roof eaves and verges on buildings within the approved development shall be finish flush with the external walls to which they connect and no barge boards or fascia boards shall be used.

 

37             Prior to the commencement of any works associated with the construction of a dwelling, details of the means by which all dwellings will be designed and constructed to achieve an energy performance standard equivalent to that contained within the former Code for Sustainable Homes Level 4 shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority. The development shall thereafter be carried out in accordance with the approved details and no dwelling occupied until it has been constructed in accordance with the approved energy performance measures.