Agenda item

Decision:

To grant the application subject to conditions

Noting comments made during the public speaking session by:

Together with:

·         No objection from the SKDC Historic Buildings Advisor

·         No objection from Lincolnshire County Council Highways and SUDS Support

·         Comments from Historic England

·         A request for further details of soft landscaping from the SKDC Arboricultural Consultant

·         Support for the proposal from InvestSK

·         No comments from Heritage Lincolnshire

·         Comments from the Lincolnshire Police ‘Designing Out Crime Officer’

·         1 representation received as a result of public consultation

·         Provisions within the National Planning Policy Framework and the South Kesteven Core Strategy and supplementary planning documents

·         Site visit observations

·         The additional information report issued on 17 August 2018

·         Comments made by members at the meeting

Following the decision of full Council at its meeting on 26 July 2018 to omit the glass link bridge, amended plans had been submitted and the application description adjusted to reflect the revised proposal.

Following the issue of the additional items paper on 17 August 2018, a representation was received from the Lincolnshire Police ‘Designing Out Crime Officer’. As a result it was suggested that, if Members were minded to approve the application, the following additional informative should be added:

Please contact the Lincolnshire Police ‘Designing Out Crime Officer’ to discuss the security measures that may form part of the approved development. This will enable Lincolnshire Police to advise you regarding any crime prevention measures that could be incorporated into the final design.

It was proposed, seconded and agreed that the application be approved, with the addition of the informative noted above, for the summary of reasons set out in the case officer’s report and subject also to the following conditions:

Time Limit for Commencement

 1    The development hereby permitted shall be commenced before the expiration of three years from the date of this permission.

Approved Plans

 2    The development hereby permitted shall be carried out in accordance with the following list of approved plans:

              i.        Drawing no. 616-2_-000 received 10th July 2018                         

              ii.       Drawing no. 616-2-020 Rev A received 16th August 2018 

              iii.      Drawing no. 616-2-023 Rev A received 16th August 2018   

              iv.      Drawing no. 616-2-022 Rev A received 16th August 2018 

              v.       Drawing no. 616-2-021 Rev A received 16th August 2018 

              vi.      Drawing no. 616-2-050 received 16th August 2018 

              vii.     Drawing no. 616-2_-111 Rev A received 16th August 2018  

              viii.    Drawing no. 616-2_-112 Rev A received 16th August 2018   

              ix.      Drawing no. 616-2_-220 Rev A received 16th August 2018 

              x.       Drawing no. 616-2_-221 Rev A received 16th August 2018   

       Unless otherwise required by another condition of this permission.

During Building Works

 3    Before any part of the development hereby permitted is occupied/brought into use, the external elevations shall have been completed using only the materials stated on the approved plans unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

 4    Before any construction work above ground is commenced, details of any soft landscaping works shall have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Details shall include:

i.          planting plans;

ii.         written specifications (including cultivation and other operations associated with plant and grass establishment);

iii.        schedules of plants, noting species, plant sizes and proposed numbers/densities where appropriate;

Before the Development is Occupied

 5    Before the end of the first planting/seeding season following the occupation/first use of any part of the development hereby permitted, all soft landscape works shall have been carried out in accordance with the approved soft landscaping details.

Ongoing Conditions

 6    Within a period of five years from the development hereby permitted being brought into use, any trees or plants provided as part of the approved soft landscaping scheme, die or become, in the opinion of the Local Planning Authority, seriously damaged or defective, shall be replaced in the first planting season following any such loss with a specimen of the same size and species as was approved in condition above unless otherwise agreed by the Local Planning Authority.