Agenda item

Report of the Director of Development and Regeneration (enclosed)

Permit Full Planning Permission, subject to conditions.

(Councillor Roy Leesdeclared an interest in the following application and left the meeting during the discussion and voting on the proposal)

Application No:                  07/00747/FUL

Proposal:       Proposed demolition of existing golf club house and the construction of a new single storey clubhouse incorporating a Bar/Dining area, sport shop, function room and offices.

Location:        Duxbury Park Golf Club, Duxbury Hall Road, Chorley

Decision:

It was proposed by Councillor Ken Ball, seconded by Councillor Pat Haughton, and subsequently RESOLVED (12:0) to grant planning permission subject to the following conditions:

1. The proposed development must be begun not later than three years from the date of this permission.

Reason: Required to be imposed by Section 51 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004.

2. No development shall take place until a scheme of landscaping has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority, notwithstanding any such detail which may have previously been submitted.  The scheme shall indicate all existing trees and hedgerows on the land; detail any to be retained, together with measures for their protection in the course of development; indicate the types and numbers of trees and shrubs to be planted, their distribution on site, those areas to be seeded, paved or hard landscaped; and detail any changes of ground level or landform.

Reason: In the interests of the amenity of the area and in accordance with Policy No.GN5 of the Adopted Chorley Borough Local Plan Review.

3. All planting, seeding or turfing comprised in the approved details of landscaping shall be carried out in the first planting and seeding seasons following the occupation of any buildings or the completion of the development, whichever is the sooner, and any trees or plants which within a period of 5 years from the completion of the development 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 the Local Planning Authority gives written consent to any variation.

Reason:  In the interest of the appearance of the locality and in accordance with Policy No GN5 of the Adopted Chorley Borough Local Plan Review.

4. During the construction period, all trees to be retained shall be protected by 1.2 metre high fencing as specified in paragraph 8.2.2 of British Standard BS5837:2005 at a distance from the tree trunk equivalent to the outermost limit of the branch spread, or at a distance from the tree trunk equal to half the height of the tree (whichever is further from the tree trunk), or as may be first agreed in writing with the Local Planning Authority.   No construction materials, spoil, rubbish, vehicles or equipment shall be stored or tipped within the areas so fenced.  All excavations within the area so fenced shall be carried out by hand.

Reason: To safeguard the trees to be retained and in accordance with Policy Nos. EP9 and HT9 of the Adopted Chorley Borough Local Plan Review.

5. The development hereby permitted shall not commence until samples of all external facing materials to the proposed buildings (notwithstanding any details shown on previously submitted plans and specification) have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  The development shall only be carried out using the approved external facing materials.

Reason:  To ensure that the materials used are visually appropriate to the locality and in accordance with Policy Nos. GN5, HT2 and HT3 of the Adopted Chorley Borough Local Plan Review.

6. The development hereby permitted shall not commence until full details of the type, coursing and jointing of the natural stone to be used in the construction of the external faces of the buildings (notwithstanding any detail shown on previously submitted plans and specification) have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  The development shall only be carried out in conformity with the approved details.

Reason:  To ensure a satisfactory form of development in the interest of the visual amenity of the area and in accordance with Policy Nos. GN5, HT2 and HT3 of the Adopted Chorley Borough Local Plan Review.

7. No works shall take place on site until the applicant, or their agents or successors in title, have secured the implementation of a programme of archaeological work. This must be carried out in accordance with a written scheme of investigation, which shall first have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The works thereafter shall be carried out in accordance with the approved scheme.

Reason:  The development involves excavating close to Statutory Listed Building and archaeological remains have been recorded in the area. To ensure and safeguard the recording and inspection of matters of archaeological importance associated with the site and in accordance with Government advice contained in PPG15: Planning and the Historic Environment.

8. Before the development commences full details, in the form of a work methodology statement, shall be submitted to and been approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority in relation to the work proposed to the Listed Building.  The required details shall include details of the works proposed to the Listed Building following the removal of the existing building and the works required in respect of the construction of the development hereby approved, in particular details of how the building will be attached to the Listed Building. The works thereafter shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details.

Reason : In the interests of the character and appearance of the Listed Building and in accordance with Policy No. HT2 of the Adopted Chorley Borough Local Plan Review.