Agenda item

Decision:

To grant the application subject to conditions

Noting:

·         No comments received from Long Bennington Parish Council

·         2 representations 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

·         Comments made by Members at the meeting

16:22 - As the meeting had been in progress for 3 hours, the Chairman asked for Members’ consent to continue. Members agreed

In discussing the application, reference was made to opportunities to incorporate renewable energy within the development. Members agreed that, should the application be approved, an informative should be added to encourage the applicant to consider how renewable energy, specifically the use of photovoltaics, could be incorporated within the development.

The case officer mentioned the inclusion of a further standard landscaping condition requiring the replacement of any trees that died within 5 years.

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

Approved Plans

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

       2939.3

       2939.4

       2939.5

       2939.6

       2939.7

       2938.8

       2939.9 Rev B

       Unless otherwise required by another condition of this permission.

During Building Works

 2    Before any construction work above ground is commenced, details of all hard and 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;

iv.     hard surfacing materials

v.       specification of boundary treatments

Before the Development is Occupied

 3    Before the end of the first planting/seeding season following the occupation of the final unit within the development hereby permitted, all hard and soft landscape works shall have been carried out in accordance with the approved hard and soft landscaping details.

 4    Before any dwelling/unit hereby permitted is occupied/brought into use, the parking and turning area accompanying each dwelling shall have been constructed in accordance with the approved details and shall be retained as such and for no other purpose thereafter.

Ongoing Conditions

 5    Notwithstanding the provisions of Schedule 2, Part 2, Class A of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (or any order revoking or re-enacting that Order with or without modification), no gate, fence, wall or other means of enclosure shall be constructed within or on the boundary of the curtilage of the site without Planning Permission first having been granted by the Local Planning Authority.

 6    The garages hereby permitted within the development shall only be used for purposes incidental to the enjoyment of the dwellinghouse which they serve and shall not be used to provide any form of primary or habitable accommodation, or any trade or business, unless the prior written consent of the Local Planning Authority has been provided.

 7    No development shall be undertaken or structures placed within the buffer zone and open space (identified in light green on drawing 2939.9 Rev B and running along the western and southern boundaries of the site), and this area shall not at any time be incorporated into the domestic garden of any dwelling hereby permitted. Existing vegetation and trees within this area shall be retained and reinforced in accordance with the principles as established by drawing 2939.9 Rev B and in accordance with other conditions attached to and forming part of this permission.

8.    Within a period of five years from the first occupation of the final dwelling/unit of the development hereby permitted, 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.