Proposed development of four houses
Location: Red Lion Farm, Worcester Road, Upton Snodsbury, Worcester, WR7 4NW
Other planning applications at this location View location on mapApplication Type: Non-householder planning application
Parish: Upton Snodsbury
Ward: Upton Snodsbury
Application Received: 25 October 2013
Statutory Start Date: 6 November 2013
Consultation Period From: 11 November 2013
Consultation Period End: 13 December 2013
Decision Date: 16 December 2013
Case Officer: Emma Worley
Status: Decided
Decision: Approved - Planning application
This decision is subject to the following conditions:
The development hereby permitted shall be begun before the expiration of 12 months from the date of this permission.
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 and to ensure the development is brought forward in a timely manner so as to contribute to the supply of housing land in the district and to significantly boost the supply of housing.
Prior to the commencement of the development hereby approved details of the facilities for the storage of refuse for all proposed buildings within the development shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. No individual dwelling shall be occupied until the approved refuse storage facilities to serve that dwelling have been constructed in accordance with approved details. The approved facilities shall be kept available for such uses in perpetuity.
Reason - To ensure the proposed development has adequate refuse storage facilities
Notwithstanding the information submitted with the application and prior to the commencement of development hereby approved the following details shall be submitted to the Local Planning Authority for approval in writing:-
- details on how renewable energy measures are to be incorporated into the proposed development; - details of measures to conserve and recycle water to be incorporated into the proposed development; - details of energy efficiency measures to be incorporated into the proposed development; and - details of construction materials to be used in the proposed development with the aim of minimising the use of primary non-sustainable materials.
The approved measures shall be implemented and incorporated into the approved development in line with an implementation timetable to be submitted and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority prior to the commencement of development.
Reason - To ensure the prudent use of natural resources.
Demolition, clearance or construction work and deliveries to and from the site in connection with the development hereby approved shall only take place between the hours of 08.00 and 18.00hrs Monday to Friday and 08.00 and 13.00hrs on a Saturday. There shall be no demolition, clearance or construction work or deliveries to and from the site on Sundays or Bank Holidays.
Reason - To preserve the amenities of the locality.
The access to the development hereby permitted shall be carried out in accordance with the access shown on the following approved plans:
863 001 A Location Plan 863 002A Block Plan 863 003A House Type 1 Floor Plans 863 004A House Type 1 Elevations 863 007A Street Scene Elevation from East 863 010 A Street Scene Elevation from South
Reason - To define the permission.
No development shall take place until there has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority a plan indicating the positions, design, materials and type of boundary treatment to be erected. The boundary treatment shall be completed before the dwellings hereby approved are first occupied or in accordance with a timetable agreed in writing with the Local Planning Authority. Development shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details.
Reason - In order to ensure that there is an acceptable form of screening with adjacent properties and between properties within the development.
No part of the development shall be commenced until full details of soft landscaping works have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The details submitted must include:
i) a plan(s) showing details of all existing trees and hedges on the application site. The plan should include, for each tree/hedge, the accurate position, canopy spread and species, together with an indication of any proposals for felling/pruning and any proposed changes in ground level, or other works to be carried out, within the canopy spread. ii) a plan(s) showing the layout of proposed tree, hedge and shrub planting and grass areas. iii) a schedule of proposed planting - indicating species, sizes at time of planting and numbers/densities of plants. iv) a written specification outlining cultivation and other operations associated with plant and grass establishment. v) a schedule of maintenance, including watering and the control of competitive weed growth, for a minimum period of five years from first planting.
All planting and seeding/turfing shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details in the first planting and seeding/turfing seasons following the completion or first occupation/use of the development, whichever is the sooner.
Any trees or plants which, within a period of five years from the completion of the planting, die, are removed or become seriously damaged or diseased shall be replaced in the next planting season with others of similar size and species, unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority.
Reason - To protect and enhance the visual amenities of the area and to ensure the satisfactory development of the site - in accordance with policies GD2, ENV1, SUR2, ENV7 and ENV8 of the Wychavon District Local Plan (June 2006).
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.
The first floor window in the side (south) elevation of the dwelling on plot 4 shall be obscure glazed and shall remain as such in perpetuity.
Reason : In order to preserve the amenities of the occupiers of the adjoining residential properties, in accordance advice contained in the Council's Residential Design Guide and policy GD2 of the Wychavon District Local Plan
The development hereby permitted shall not be brought into use until the access, turning area and parking facilities shown on the approved plan 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 highway safety and to ensure the free flow of traffic using the adjoining highway.
The development hereby permitted shall not commence until a detailed mitigation and enhancement scheme has been submitted to and agreed in writing with the local planning authority, based on the recommendations made in section 5 of the Ecological Survey Report by AMPA Ecology dated 14 July 2012.
Reason: to ensure protected species are not harmed by this development and that appropriate habitat provision is made within the development.
All existing trees and hedges on site, or branches from trees on adjacent land that overhang the site, unless indicated on the approved plan(s) to be removed, shall be retained and shall not be felled or pruned or otherwise removed within a period of five years from the completion of the development without the previous written consent of the Local Planning Authority.
Temporary fencing for the protection of all retained trees/hedges on site during development shall be erected, to a minimum height of 1.2 metres, below the outermost limit of the branch spread, or at a distance equal to half the height of the tree, whichever is the further from the tree.
Such fencing should be erected in accordance with BS 5837:2005, before any materials or machinery are brought onto site and before any demolition or development, including erection of site huts, is commenced.
This protective fencing shall be maintained on site until the completion of development, and nothing should be stored or placed, nor shall any ground levels be altered, within the fenced area without the previous written consent of the Local Planning Authority.
There shall be no burning of any material within 10 metres of the extent of the canopy of any retained tree/hedge.
If any retained tree/hedge is removed, uprooted or destroyed or dies, replacement planting shall be carried out in the first available planting season of such species, sizes and numbers and in positions on site as may be specified by the Local Planning Authority.
Reason - To prevent existing trees/hedges from being damaged during construction work and to preserve the amenities of the locality. In accordance with policies SUR2, ENV7, and ENV8 of the Wychavon District Local Plan (June 2006).
The precise floorslab levels of each new dwelling, relative to the existing development on the boundary of the site shall be submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority prior to the commencement of the development.
Reason - In order to ensure that the overall appearance of the development is satisfactory.
Prior to the commencement of the development hereby permitted, details of the design and construction of the chimneys shown on the approved elevations shall be submitted to and agreed in writing by the local planning authority. The dwellings shall be constructed in accordance with the approved details.
Reason: To ensure the design would accord with advice in the council's Residential Design Guide.
Mr C Barnes
3 Windy Ridge
Upton Snodsbury
Mr N Healey
3 Aspen Close
Evesham
Worcs
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