Replacement dwelling and garage.
Location: Fir Tree Cottage, Lower Town, Claines, Worcester, WR3 7RY
Other planning applications at this location View location on mapApplication Type: Non-householder planning application
Parish: North Claines
Ward: Lovett & North Claines
Application Received: 16 January 2014
Statutory Start Date: 21 January 2014
Consultation Period From: 24 January 2014
Consultation Period End: 26 February 2014
Decision Date: 5 March 2014
Case Officer: Hannah Connell
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 three years 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.
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.
Details of the form, colour and finish of the materials to be used externally on the walls and roofs shall be subject to the approval, in writing, of the Local Planning Authority before any work on the site commences.
Reason - To ensure that the development is visually satisfactory.
Details of the form, finish and materials of the windows shall be agreed, in writing, by the Local Planning Authority before any work on the site commences.
Reason - To ensure that the development is visually satisfactory.
The development hereby permitted shall be carried out in accordance with the following approved plans:
A1 922-01 SITE PLAN - EXISTING A1 922-03 PROPOSED EXTENSION & ALTERATIONS A1 922-07 SITE PLAN - PROPOSED A1 922-09E PLANS & ELEVATIONS
Reason - To define the permission.
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.
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 and to provide ecological mitigation and enhancement - in accordance with (Policy GD2, Policy ENV1 (ENV12 for Conservation Areas) and Policy SUR2 (and ENV7 where site has nature conservation value, and ENV8 for protection of existing hedgerows, trees & woodland) of the Wychavon District Local Plan (June 2006).
The development hereby permitted shall not be commenced until an appropriate bat license has been granted by Natural England under the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2010 and a copy of the license and detailed bat mitigation strategy has been submitted to the local planning authority. The works shall thereafter be carried out in strict accordance with the submitted and agreed mitigation strategy.
Reason - to ensure compliance with the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2010. Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (as amended), WDC Policy ENV6, SWDP Policy 22 and paragraphs 109 and 118 of the NPPF.
Prior to any building works being first commenced, details of the location, height and the precise specification of the proposed materials, or species of planting, for the boundary treatments on the site shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.
Reason - To ensure the special historic and architectural interest of the building is properly maintained, in accordance with Policies ENV13 and ENV14 of the adopted Wychavon District Local Plan (June 2006).
Mr & Mrs M Cook
Wheatlands
Broome
Clent
Stourbridge, West Midlands
Mr M Timmins
Martin Timmins Architects
14 Tye Gardens
Pedmore
Stourbridge
West Midlands
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