Agenda item

Report of Corporate Director (Business) (enclosed)

Planning permission granted

Application No:                  07/00934/REMMAJ

Proposal:                   Reserved Matters application for the demolition of Talbot Arms public house and residential development of (19no. units) .4Ha

Location:                    Land East of the Talbot Arms and South of Botany Brow Works, Mason Street, Chorley

Decision:

It was proposed by Councillor Dennis Edgerley, seconded by Counciloor David Dickinson, and subsequently RESOLVED 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. No development shall take place until a scheme of landscaping and a management plan has been submitted to and agreed 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. No works shall take place until the applicant, or their agent or successors in title, have secured the implementation of a programme of building recording and analysis.  This must be carried out by a professionally qualified archaeological/building recording consultant or organisation in accordance with a written scheme of investigation which shall first have been submitted to and agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  Upon completion of the programme of building recording and analysis it shall be submitted to the Local Planning Authority.

Reason : To ensure and safeguard the recording and inspection of matters of archaeological/historic importance associated with the building and in accordance with Policy No. GN1 of the Adopted Chorley Borough Local Plan Review.

5. Before the development hereby permitted is first commenced full details of existing and proposed ground levels and proposed building slab levels (all relative to ground levels adjoining the site) shall have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority, notwithstanding any such details shown on the approved plans. The development shall only be carried out in conformity with the approved details.

Reason:  To protect the appearance of the locality, in the interests of the amenities of local residents and in accordance with Policy Nos. GN5 and HS4 of the Adopted Chorley Borough Local Plan Review.

6. The development hereby permitted shall not commence until a completed Section 278 Agreement under the Highways Act accompanied by a plan detailing the position agreed with Lancashire County Council of a pedestrian crossing has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority and no dwelling or apartment shall thereafter be occupied until the pedestrian crossing has been provided and brought into operational use.

Reasons: In the interests of highway safety and in accordance with Policy No. TR4 of the Chorley Borough Local Plan Review.

7. The development hereby permitted shall not commence until a completed Section 116 Agreement under the Highways Act for the stopping up of the land which is currently adopted highway in front of the proposed apartment building has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority and no dwelling or apartment shall thereafter be occupied until the land in question has been stopped up in accordance with the approved site plan (Ref No. 0649:11 date stamped 13^th September 2007) and landscaped in accordance with the approved scheme of landscaping required by condition no. 2 of this permission.

Reason: In the interests of ensuring a satisfactory form of development and in the interest of highway safety in accordance with Policy Nos. GN5, HS4 and TR4 of the Chorley Borough Local Plan Review.

8. If at any time prior to, or during the course of development, bats are detected or found to be present, all works must stop immediately and a suitably experience bat worker and/or Natural England must be contacted immediately for advice on how to safeguard the bats found to be present on the site.

Reason: In the interests of protected species and in accordance with Policy EP4 of the Chorley Borough Local Plan Review.

9. Notwithstanding the approved plan detailing the house plans for units 3 to 9 (ref no. 0649:08) the position of the dwelling on plot no. 8 shall only be in accordance with the approved site plan (ref no. 0649:11).

Reason: To ensure a suitable relationship between the dwellings on plots 8 and 9, to define permission and in accordance with Policy No. HS4 of the Chorley Borough Local Plan Review.