Agenda item

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

The committee considered application 18/01259/F for the use of land for the stationing of caravans for residential purposes at Summer Place, Blackthorn Road, Launton for Mr Jerry Connors.

Councillor Hallchurch addressed the committee as Ward Member.

Nathaniel Green, the applicant’s agent, addressed the committee in support of the application.

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

Resolved

That authority be delegated to the Assistant Director of Planning Policy and Development to grant planning permission for application 18/01259/F, subject to the conditions detailed below (the exact conditions and the wording of those conditions to be delegated to the Assistant Director for Planning Policy and Development):

Time Limit

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.

Approved Plans

2.                  Except where otherwise stipulated by conditions attached to this permission, the development shall be carried out strictly in accordance with the following plans and documents: 

·Application form submitted with the application;

·Cover letter dated 12^th July 2018 by GreePlanningStudio submitted with the application;

·Drawing Numbers 17_912_001 Revision A and 17_912_005 Revision A submitted with the application;

·Drawing Number 17_912_003 Revision D received from the applicant's agent by e-mail on 24th September 2018;

·KingspaceKlargester specification received from the applicant’s agent by e-mail on 24^th September 2018 and e-mails received from the applicant’s agent 18^th September 2018, 24^th September 2018 and 28^th September 2018 specifying which treatment plant is to be used

     Surface Water Drainage

3.                  Notwithstanding the submitted details, no development shall take place 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 development shall not be occupied or used unless and until the approved scheme has been implemented to the satisfaction of the local planning authority. The scheme shall also include:

·       Discharge Rates

·       Discharge Volumes

·       SuDS ( Permeable Paving, Porous Sub-base)

·       Maintenance and management of SUDS features

·       Infiltration in accordance with BRE365 (To include infiltration testing)

·       Detailed drainage layout with pipe numbers

·       Network drainage calculations

Parking

4.                  No development shall take place until full specification details (including construction, layout, surfacing and drainage) of the parking and manoeuvring areas has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Thereafter, and prior to the first occupation of the development, the parking and manoeuvring areas shall be provided on the site in accordance with the approved details and shall be retained unobstructed except for the parking and manoeuvring of vehicles at all times thereafter.

Ecological Buffer

5.                  Notwithstanding the 8 metre ecological buffer adjacent to Launton Brook which includes a fence within it as displayed on Drawing Number 17_912_003 Revision D received from the applicant's agent by e-mail on 24th September 2018, no development shall take place until a plan displaying an 8 metre ecological buffer adjacent to Launton Brook has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Thereafter, the 8 metre buffer shall be kept free of development at all times and no development or storage of goods, vehicles or materials shall take place at any time whatsoever.

Means of Enclosure

6.                  Notwithstanding the means of enclosure as displayed within Drawing Number 17_912_003 Revision D received from the applicant's agent by e-mail on 24th September 2018, prior to the first occupation of the site full details of the means of enclosure shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Thereafter, the approved means of enclosure shall be erected in accordance with the approved details, prior to the first occupation of those dwellings, and shall be retained as such thereafter.

     Number of Caravans

7.                  No more than 12 caravans, as defined in the Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 and the Caravan Sites Act 1968 (of which no more than 8 shall be static caravans or mobiles homes), shall be stationed on the site at any one time and these shall be sited within the pitches as displayed on the drawing titled ‘Site Layout Plan’ at 1:500 Scale on A4 paper submitted with the application.

Access

8.                  Subject to the requirements of Condition 9 of planning permission 13/00279/F, the access and driveway to the site leading from Blackthorn Road shall be kept free of obstructions at all times and used only for the specified purpose.

Commercial Vehicles and Activities

9.                  No more than one commercial vehicle per pitch shall be kept on the land. Each vehicle shall not exceed 3.5 tonnes in unloaded weight and shall not be stationed, parked or stored on the site except within the relevant pitch and shall not be used other than by occupiers of that pitch. No other commercial vehicles shall be kept on the land.

10.               No commercial activities, including the storage of materials, shall take place on the land other than the storage of materials in vehicles authorised to be parked on the site.

Occupation restricted to Gypsies and Travellers

11.               The site shall not be occupied by any persons other than gypsies and travellers as defined in Annex 1 of 'Planning policy for traveller sites' August 2015:

“Persons of nomadic habit of life whatever their race or origin, including such persons who on grounds only of their own or their family’s or dependants’ educational or health needs or old age have ceased to travel temporarily, but excluding members of an organised group of travelling showpeople or circus people travelling together as such.”

Removal of Permitted Development Rights

12.               Notwithstanding the provisions of Class A, Part 2, Schedule 2 of The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended), no gates, fences, walls or other means of enclosure shall be erected on the site without the grant of further specific planning permission from the Local Planning Authority.