Agenda item

Report of Director of Development and Regeneration (enclosed)

Approved Outline Planning Permission with conditions

Application No:            06/00908/OUT

Proposal:                   Outline application for enhancement of shopping area to include classes A1, A2, A3 and A5

Location:                    Land South of Copper Works, Wood West of Gillibrand North and West of South Clover Road, Chorley

Decision:

It was proposed by Councillor Ken Ball, seconded by Councillor David Dickinson, and subsequently RESOLVED (14:0) 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. Before the development hereby permitted is first commenced, full details of the following reserved matters design, external appearance and landscaping shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

Reason:  The permission is in outline only and in accordance with Policy Nos. GN5, HS4, EM2 and TR4 of the Adopted Chorley Borough Local Plan Review.

3. The development hereby permitted shall not commence until samples of all external facing materials to the proposed building(s) (notwithstanding any details shown on previously submitted plan(s) 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, DC8A, DC8B, HT2, HT3, HT7, HS4, HS9, EM3, EM4A and EM5 of the Adopted Chorley Borough Local Plan Review.

4. The development hereby permitted shall not commence until full details of the colour, form and texture of all hard ground- surfacing materials (notwithstanding any such 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, DC8A, DC8B, HT2, HT3, HT7, HS4, HS9, EM3, EM4A and EM5 of the Adopted Chorley Borough Local Plan Review.

5. Before the development hereby permitted is first commenced, full details of the measures to be incorporated into the development to prevent the ingress of landfill gas shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  The development hereby permitted shall only be constructed in accordance with the approved scheme of landfill gas ingress prevention measures.

Reason:  To protect occupiers from the ingress of landfill gas and in accordance with Policy No. EP16 of the Adopted Chorley Borough Local Plan Review.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. The larger retail unit shown on the submitted plans shall only be used as a shop and for no other purpose within Class A1 of the Town and Country Planning Uses Order 1987.

Reason: The use of that unit for any other purpose may not be appropriate and the Local Planning Authority requires the opportunity to consider any changes in use.