Outline application for residential development (6 units open market and 3 units affordable) access and associated works.
Location: Land adjacent to, Keppel Gate, Upton Road, Defford
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Parish: Defford
Ward: Eckington
Application Received: 21 October 2013
Statutory Start Date: 17 March 2014
Consultation Period From: 20 March 2014
Consultation Period End: 1 May 2014
Decision Date: 5 January 2015
Case Officer: Emma Ridley
Status: Decided
Decision: Approved - Outline
This decision is subject to the following conditions:
Application for approval of reserved matters shall be made to the Local Planning Authority before the expiration of 2 years from the date of this permission. The development hereby permitted shall be begun before the expiration of 12 months from the date of approval of the last of the reserved matters to be approved.
Reason - In accordance with the requirements of Section 91 (1) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 as amended by Section 51 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004.
Approval of the details of the siting, design and external appearance of the building(s), and the landscaping of the site (hereinafter called "the reserved matters") shall be obtained from the Local Planning Authority in writing before any development is commenced.
Reason - This permission is in outline only and further details of the reserved matters are required to ensure satisfactory development.
A) No development shall take place until a programme of archaeological work, including a Written Scheme of Investigation, has been submitted to and approved by the local planning authority in writing. The scheme shall include an assessment of significance and research questions; and: 1. The programme and methodology of site investigation and recording. 2. The programme for post investigation assessment. 3. Provision to be made for analysis of the site investigation and recording. 4. Provision to be made for publication and dissemination of the analysis and records of the site investigation 5. Provision to be made for archive deposition of the analysis and records of the site investigation 6. Nomination of a competent person or persons/organisation to undertake the works set out within the Written Scheme of Investigation. B) No demolition/development shall take place other than in accordance with the Written Scheme of Investigation approved under condition (A). C) The development shall not be occupied until the site investigation and post investigation assessment has been completed in accordance with the programme set out in the Written Scheme of Investigation approved under condition (A) and the provision made for analysis, publication and dissemination of results and archive deposition has been secured.
Reason: In accordance with the requirements of paragraph 141 of the National Planning Policy Framework.
No development shall commence until the details of the disposal of foul and surface drainage have been submitted to and approved in writing with the Local Planning Authority and shall be constructed in accordance with the approved details.
Reason - To ensure a satisfactory means of drainage is available to serve the development.
Prior to the first use/occupation of the development hereby permitted, the details set out in the submitted Water Management Statement shall be fully implemented and remain thereafter. Reason - To ensure that an appropriate sustainable drainage system is provided to serve the development and to reduce the consumption of water. This is in accordance with the SPD on Water Management.
Before any other works hereby approved are commenced, visibility splays shall be provided from a point 0.6m above ground level at the centre of the access to the application site and 2.4 metres back from the nearside edge of the adjoining carriageway, Upton Road A4104 (measured perpendicularly), for a distance of 103 metres in each direction along the nearside edge of the adjoining carriageway. Nothing shall be planted, erected and/or allowed to grow on the triangular area of land so formed which would obstruct the visibility described above and these areas shall thereafter be retained and kept available for visibility purposes at all times.
Reason: In the interests of highway safety
Development shall not begin until details of the junction arrangements with Upton Road A4101 being 5.5m metres wide with 6 metre radii together with footway improvements have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority, and the development shall not be occupied until the scheme has been constructed in accordance with the approved details.
Reason: To ensure the safe and free flow of traffic on the highway.
Development shall not begin until the engineering details and specification of the proposed road, footways and footpaths, service strips and highway drains have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.
Reason: To ensure an adequate and acceptable means of access is available before the dwellings are occupied.
The dwellings hereby permitted shall not be occupied until the individual vehicular accesses and shared driveways, entrances, aisle turning areas and car parking have been properly consolidated, surfaced, drained and otherwise constructed in accordance with details to be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority and these areas shall thereafter be retained and kept available for those uses at all times.
Reason: In the interests of vehicle and pedestrian safety.
Prior to the first occupation of the dwellings hereby approved secure parking for 2 cycles to serve a 2 bedroom dwelling and 4 cycles to serve a 3 bedroom dwelling shall comply with the Council's standards shall be provided within the curtilage of each dwelling and these facilities shall thereafter be retained for the parking of cycles only.
Reason: To comply with the Council's parking standards
The development hereby permitted shall not begin until a Construction Method Statement has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority in consultation with the Highway Authority. The approved statement shall be adhered to throughout the construction period. The statement shall provide for: a) The parking of vehicles of site operatives and visitors within the application site. b) Loading and unloading of plant and materials within the application site. c) Storage of plant and materials within the application site. d) Siting of site offices within the application site.
Reason: To prevent indiscriminate parking in the interests of highway safety.
Drainage arrangements shall be provided to ensure that surface water from the shared driveways and parking court does not discharge onto the public highway. No drainage from the proposed development shall be allowed to discharge into any highway drain or over any part of the public highway.
Reason. In the interests of highway safety.
Prior to the commencement of the development hereby approved, details of the mitigation and enhancement strategy, which shall be based on the recommendations contained in section 7 of the Baseline Ecological Appraisal by Liz Mckay dated June 2014 and shall also include bat roosting and bird nesting features and locations and details of these measures plus of long term management for them shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The approved mitigation and enhancement measures shall be fully implemented in accordance with an implementation timetable that should also be submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority.
Reason : To enhance biodiversity at the site in accordance with the NPPF principles.
Unless where otherwise required under the provisions of any other condition attached to this planning permission, the development hereby permitted shall be broadly in accordance with the description of development set out in the Design and Access Statement and the Indicative Site Plan submitted with the planning application. Any reserved matter application shall include a statement providing an explanation as to how the design of the development responds to and complies with, these documents.
Reason - To ensure the approved design represents high quality inclusive design in accordance with Policies GD2 and SUR1 of the Wychavon District Local Plan 2006
Mr & Mrs M Banner
57 Three Springs Road
Pershore
Worcester
Worcestershire
Mr H Marshall
H.T. Marshall & Son Ltd
Abbey Works
New Road
Pershore
Worcs
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