Agenda item

To confirm the minutes of the Development Control Committee meeting held on 8 March 2011 (enclosed).

RESOLVED – That the minutes of the Development Control Committee meeting held on 8 March 2011 be confirmed as a correct record and signed by the Chair.

Matters Arising - Minutes Number 11.DC.22(c)

At the Development Control Committee on 8 March 2011 the Fairview Farm, application number: 11/00059/FULMAJ (Section 73) was approved subject to various conditions.

The Committee was advised that the reason for the submission of this application was due to amendments to the proposed landscaping of the site to satisfy ecological concerns raised by the Environment Agency and to raise the levels of a few of the properties slightly.

Subsequent to the Committee meeting and prior to issuing the decision further information was submitted in respect of two of the conditions as follows:

17.    Within one month of the date of this planning approval full details of the predicted energy use of the development expressed in terms of carbon emissions shall be submitted to an approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. If no data specific to the application is available benchmark data will be acceptable. A schedule should include how energy efficiency is being addressed, for example, amongst other things through the use of passive solar design. It will be flexible enough to show the on-site measures to be installed and implemented so as to reduce carbon emissions in accordance with policy SR1 of the Sustainable Resources DPD. No development shall commence until the scheme has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority unless it can be demonstrated, through open book accounting, that the individual site’s circumstances are such that development would not be feasible or viable if the policy were implemented. Such details as may be approved shall be implemented and retained in perpetuity.

          Reason: To ensure the proper planning of the area. In line with the objective of National Planning Policy contained in Planning Policy Statement: Planning, the Climate Change Supplement to PPS1, Policies EM16 and EM17 of the Regional Spatial Strategy and Chorley Borough Council's Sustainable Resources DPD and Supplementary Planning Document

          Full details of the measures to reduce carbon emissions were submitted which are acceptable in respect of Planning Policy SR1 and a gabion retaining wall will no longer be required which the Council’s Arboricultural Officer is satisfied with in respect of the health of the tree. As such these conditions have been amended as follows:

18.    The development hereby permitted shall be carried out in accordance with the approved scheme to reduce carbon emissions at the site. The approved details include a system of solar heated domestic hot water for all dwellings. The systems will comprise solar panels mounted on the roof and connected to solar twin coil hot water cylinders.

          Reason: To ensure the proper planning of the area. In line with the objective of National Planning Policy contained in Planning Policy Statement: Planning, the Climate Change Supplement to PPS1, Policies EM16 and EM17 of the Regional Spatial Strategy and Chorley Borough Council's Sustainable Resources DPD and Supplementary Planning Document

20.    In the event that a gabion retaining wall (highway structure) is required prior to the completion of plots 2-12 of the development full details of the proposed construction of the highway and turning head, serving plots 2-12, shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The details shall include full details of the proposed gabion retaining wall, including levels and sections through the highway, along with proposed protection measures for the adjacent Sycamore Tree. The development thereafter shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details.

          Reason: In the interests of the visual amenities of the area and to ensure the continued protection of the adjacent tree. In accordance with Policies GN5 and EP9 of the Adopted Chorley Borough Local Plan Review

21.    The development hereby permitted shall be carried out in accordance with plans reference 27-28-44 and 27-28-43, received 15 March 2011, in regards to the construction of the highway and turning head serving plots 2-12.

          Reason: In the interests of the visual amenities of the area and to ensure the continued protection of the adjacent tree. In accordance with Policies GN5 and EP9 of the Adopted Chorley Borough Local Plan Review

Condition 20 had also been amended to include the additional plans.

The amended conditions are included on the decision notice for this application.