Agenda item

(Councillor D Dickinson declared an interest in the following application and left the meeting during the discussion and voting on the proposal).

Application No:            06/00205/FUL

Proposal:                   Erection of Golf Club House and associated car-park together with machinery store to service 9 hole golf club.

Location:                    Moss Side Farm, Bury Lane, Withnell

Decision:                   

It was proposed by Councillor A Lowe, seconded by Councillor E Bell, and subsequently RESOLVED (12:0) to grant planning permission subject to a Section 106 Agreement and the following conditions:

1. 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 be shown on the approved plans.  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.

2. 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 detail shown on the approved plan(s).  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.

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 10 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. 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 of the Adopted Chorley Borough Local Plan Review.

5. 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 of the Adopted Chorley Borough Local Plan Review.

6. Before the development hereby permitted is first commenced, a plan of the car park shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority detailing the provision of 3 no. additional disabled car parking spaces.

Reason:  To ensure adequate on site provision of car parking and manoeuvring areas and in accordance with Policy No. TR4 of the Adopted Chorley Borough Local Plan Review.

7. Before the clubhouse building is first used for the purposes associated with the golf course and fishing lakes, the car park and vehicle manoeuvring areas shall be surfaced or paved, drained and marked out all in accordance with the details approved pursuant to the other conditions attached to the permission hereby granted. The car park and vehicle manoeuvring areas shall not thereafter be used for any purpose other than the parking of and manoeuvring of vehicles.

Reason:  To ensure adequate on site provision of car parking and manoeuvring areas and in accordance with Policy No. TR4 of the Adopted Chorley Borough Local Plan Review.

8. No development approved by this permission shall be commenced until a scheme for the disposal of foul drainage to a septic tank has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. No part of the development shall be brought into use until such treatment plant has been constructed and completed in accordance with the approved plans.

Reason: To prevent pollution of the water environment.

9. There shall be no form of illumination to the car park or any of the external areas within the site and there shall be no external illumination of the buildings hereby permitted.

Reason : In the interests of visual amenity in this open countryside location and to accord with policy LT12 of the Adopted Chorley Borough Local Plan Review .

10. The clubhouse building hereby approved shall be used as a golfers changing area and rest facilities for golfers and fishermen. The café/refreshment area shall only provide snack facilities and not multi course meals, and shall not be available to the general public not using the leisure facilities at the golf course and fishing lakes. The café/refreshment area shall not be open beyond the opening hours of the golf course itself. The shop facilities shall not be open to the public as a general retail outlet and shall also not be open beyond the opening hours of the course itself.

Reason: To enable the Local Planning Authority to retain control over the use of this facility; usage beyond those playing golf or fishing may be inappropriate in terms of leisure uses appropriate in the Green Belt and the impact of such usage would have to be considered separately by the Local Planning Authority; also to accord with the provisions with policies LT12, DC1 and SP8 of the Adopted Chorley Borough Local Plan Review.

11. Before the development hereby permitted is first commenced, full details of facilities to be provided for the cleaning of the wheels of vehicles leaving the site shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  The wheel wash facility shall be provided, in accordance with the approved details, before the use of the site hereby permitted is first commenced and thereafter retained at all times during operation of the site.

Reason:  To prevent the tracking of mud and/or the deposit of loose material upon the highway, in the interests of public safety and in accordance with Policy No.TR4 of the Adopted Chorley Borough Local Plan Review.

12. The development shall only be carried out in accordance with the recommendations contained within the Ecological Assessment by the Environmental Research and Advisory Partnership that was submitted with the application dated February 2006 and no potential bird breeding habitat including trees and shrubs shall be removed during the bird breeding seasons of March to August inclusive unless a bird survey has first been conducted immediately prior to the work to show that the areas to be developed are clear of all breeding birds and the details submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

Reason: To meet the provisions of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 to protect breeding birds and in accordance with Policy No. EP4 of the Adopted Chorley Borough Local Plan Review.

13. Prior to the first use of the clubhouse building hereby permitted and the golf course, the first ten metres of the access road to the site from Bury Lane shall be hardsurfaced in a material to be first agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority and the access improvements shall be implemented in accordance with the approved plans.

Reason : In the interests of highway safety at the site junction and to accord with policy LT12 of the Adopted Chorley Borough Local Plan Review .  

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

Reason: Required to be imposed by Section 91 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.

15. The approved plans are:

Plan Ref.             Received On:                 Title:

WGAC/406/04                9^th May 2006                    Reduced Clubhouse Design & Car Park Details

----------                         10^th May 2006                       Proposed Site Entrance from Bury Lane

346/06/1                      27^th February 2006                             Location Plan

----------                         15^th February 2006                             Machine Store Details

WGC/AC/206/02                   15^th February 2006                             Site Plan Showing Machine Store Position

----------                         27^th February 2006                             Ecological Assessment

Reason:  To define the permission and in the interests of the proper development of the site.

16. The approved plans are:

Plan Ref.             Received On:                    Title:

WGAC/406/04                9^th May 2006                    Reduced Clubhouse Design & Car Park Details

----------                         10^th May 2006                   Proposed Site Entrance from Bury Lane

346/06/1                      27^th February 2006                   Location Plan

----------                         15^th February 2006                    Machine Store Details

WGC/AC/206/02        15^th February 2006        Site Plan Showing Machine Store Position

----------                         27^th February 2006                    Ecological Assessment

Reason:  To define the permission and in the interests of the proper development of the site.