Agenda item

Application No:            06/00266/FULMAJ

Proposal:                   Proposed 2no. three storey office units and service roads, landscape areas and car parking.

Location:                    Chorley Business and Technology Centre, Euxton Lane, Euxton

Decision:

It was proposed by Councillor D Gee, seconded by Councillor A Lowe, and subsequently RESOLVED to grant planning permission subject to a Section 106 Agreement and the following conditions:

1. The Development shall only be carried out in accordance with the approved plans, except as may otherwise be specifically required by any other condition of this permission or unless otherwise first agreed to in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

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

2. 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.

3. Before the development hereby permitted is first commenced, full details of the position, height and appearance of all fences and walls to be erected to the site boundaries (notwithstanding any such detail shown on previously submitted plan(s)) shall have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  No building shall be occupied or land used pursuant to this permission before all walls and fences have been erected in accordance with the approved details.  Fences and walls shall thereafter be retained in accordance with the approved details at all times.

Reason:  To ensure a visually satisfactory form of development, to protect the amenities of occupiers of nearby property and in accordance with Policy Nos. GN5 and EM2 of the Adopted Chorley Borough Local Plan Review.

4. No part of the development hereby permitted shall be occupied or used until a means of vehicular access has been constructed in accordance with the approved plans.

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

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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 and EM2 of the Adopted Chorley Borough Local Plan Review.

8. Before the development hereby permitted is first occupied, the car park and vehicle manoeuvring areas shall be surfaced or paved, drained and marked out all in accordance with the approved plan.  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. TR8 of the Adopted Chorley Borough Local Plan Review.

9. The approved plans are:

Plan Ref.             Received On:                 Title:

P.431/17/B                       26 May 2006                    Location Plan

P.431/15 Rev B       26 May 2006                    Plans and Elevations

P.431A/16 Rev A       26 May 2006                    Proposed Site Layout

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