Agenda item

Report of Corporate Director (Business) (enclosed)

Planning permission granted subject to Legal Agreement

(The Committee received representation from an objector to the proposals)

Application No:                  07/00868/FULMAJ

Proposal:                   Demolition of existing dwelling and development of 18no. residential dwellings

Location:                    605, Preston Road, Clayton-Le-Woods, Chorley

Decision:

It was proposed by Councillor Harold Heaton, seconded by Councillor Caunce, and subsequently RESOLVED (9:3) to grant planning permission subject to a legal agreement and 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. The development hereby permitted shall not commence until full details of the colour, form and texture of all external facing materials to the proposed buildings 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 and HS4 of the Adopted Chorley Borough Local Plan Review.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. The development hereby permitted shall not commence until the applicant has submitted to and had approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority a desk top study, site walkover and risk assessment.

Reason: In the interests of safety and in accordance with Policy EP16 of the Adopted Chorley Borough Local Plan Review

6. Before development commences a scheme indicating the removal and relocation to an agreed position, of the bus stop and shelter to the south of the proposed access into the site on Preston Road shall be submitted to and agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority in consultation with the Highway Authority.  The works shall be carried out prior to the opening of the new access.

Reason: In the interests of highway safety and in accordance with Policy TR4 of the Adopted Chorley Borough local Plan Review.

7. Notwithstanding the submitted plans, before development commences a scheme showing paved swept areas capable of allowing for the turning of refuse vehicles at the turning head to the cul-de-sac shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  The scheme shall be implemented before the occupation of the first dwelling on the site.

Reason: Vehicles reversing to and from the highway are a hazard to other road  users and in accordance with Policy TR4 of the Adopted Chorley Borough Local Plan Review.

8. Notwithstanding the submitted plans, the perimeter wall to the north of the site entrance on plot 18, should be set back by a metre and a hedge planted at the rear of the footway of the same species as that along the remainder of the site frontage.

Reason: In the interests of the visual amenity of the area and in accordance with Policy Nos. GN5 and HS4 of the Adopted Chorley Borough Local Plan.