Agenda item

The Committee considered a report for a hybrid planning application for 24,005sqm B2 (industrial) and/or B8 (warehouse/distribution) uses (and associated infrastructure) with full details provided for Phase 1 comprising 12,574sqm floor space and all details except external appearance for Phase 2 comprising 11,431sqm floor space.

The Development Control Team Leader advised Members that this application had been approved by Planning Committee at its meeting on 24 February 2011 and had been brought back to the Committee to seek a variation to the agreed conditions and an amended resolution.  

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

Resolved

That application 10/01861/HYB be approved subject to:

(i)                 Applicant entering into a planning obligation to secure contributions towards the transport network and the monitoring of the Travel Plan the subject of condition.

(ii)               Departure procedures (SOS already informed of application);

(iii)             The following conditions previously considered and agreed by Planning Committee:

(1)               That in the case of unit 2 and associated curtilage, development shall be begun not later that the expiration of three years beginning with the date of this permission

(2)               That in the case of unit 1 and associated curtilage no development shall be commenced until full details of the external appearance (hereafter referred to as the reserved matters) have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

(3)               That in the case of the reserved matters for unit 1 and associated curtilage, application for approval shall be made not later than the expiration of three years beginning with the date of this permission

(4)               That in the case of unit 1 and associated curtilage development shall be begun not later than the expiration of two years from the final approval of the reserved matters.

(5)               That except for the external appearance of unit 1 and unless otherwise required via condition, the development hereby approved shall be carried out strictly in accordance with:  Application Forms, Design and Access Statement Revision A dated January 2011, Flood Risk Assessment S1154 dated November 2010, Aspect Ecology Ecological Assessment dated November 2010 and the following drawings numbered: AP(0)010, AP(0)024, AP(0)027, AP(0)028, AP(0)029, AP(0)030, AP(0)031, AP(0)034, AP(0)035, S1154-01B, S1154-06, S1154-07A, S1154-08A, S1154-09A, S1154-10A and 100485E100TDv1 received with the application on 06/12/10 and amended drawings numbered AP(0)011 Rev A, AP(0)012 Rev A, AP(0)013 Rev A, AP(0)014 Rev A, AP(0)015 Rev A, AP(0)016 Rev A, AP(0)020 Rev A, AP(0)021 Rev A, AP(0)022 Rev A, AP(0)023 Rev A, AP(0)025 Rev A, AP(0)026 Rev A, AP(0)032 Rev A received 21/01/11.

(6)               That following the first occupation of each unit, all planting, seeding and turfing comprised in the approved details of landscaping relating to the curtilage of each building shall be carried out in the first planting and seeding seasons.

(7)               That prior to the first occupation of unit 2 a management plan for the landscaping scheme for the whole site, shall be submitted to and agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The management plan shall be carried out strictly in accordance with the approved details and timescale.

(8)               That prior to the installation of any part of any enclosure required in relation to unit 1, full details of the proposed enclosures shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The enclosures shall be erected on site in accordance with the approved details.

(9)               That prior to the first occupation of each of the buildings hereby approved car parking provision shall be provided in accordance with the approved plans and shall be retained for the parking of vehicles at all times thereafter.

(10)          Prior to the commencement of the development hereby permitted, a detailed method statement to outline the proposed arrangements to ensure that access is maintained to adjacent industrial developments, farmland to the south and public footpaths during construction, including temporary access arrangements to the site during construction and details of wheel washing or road sweeping arrangements during construction, shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The development shall be constructed and carried out in accordance with the approved method statement.

(11)          The development permitted by this planning permission shall only be carried out in  accordance with the approved Flood Risk Assessment (FRA S1154) produced by Bailey Johnson Hayes Consulting Engineers, dated November 2010 and the following mitigation measures detailed within the FRA:

a.                  The surface water drainage system shall be designed to safely manage  storm events up to and including the 1 in 100 year event with and allowance  for climate change, in accordance with Sections 4 and 6 of the FRA.

b.                  During the design event, surface water discharge rates shall not exceed 19 1/sec from unit 1 and 25 1/sec from unit 2, in accordance with Section 3 of the FRA.

c.                  The surface water drainage system shall include swales.

(12)          That prior to the first use or occupation of the buildings hereby approved, each building and all items of mechanical plant and equipment including compressor motors and fans, within or associated with that building, shall be acoustically enclosed or insulated in accordance with a scheme to be first submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The development shall thereafter be constructed and operated at all times in accordance with the approved acoustic enclosure/insulation scheme.

(13)          That in the case of both buildings, except where provision for outside storage is shown on the approved plans, no outside storage shall take place

(14)          The development hereby permitted shall be constructed to at least a BREEAM good standard. 

(iv)              The following extra condition:

(15)     Prior to the first use or occupation of the development hereby permitted a Green a Green Travel Plan, prepared in accordance with the Department of Transport’s Best         Practice Guide Note ‘Using the planning process to secure travel plans’, shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The approved Green   Travel Plan shall thereafter be implemented and operated in accordance with the approved details.