Agenda item

Report of the Director of Development and Regeneration (enclosed)

Application No:            07/00108/OUT

Proposal:                   Outline application for the erection of one detached two-storey dwelling with a detached garage and a detached garage for The Gables

Location:                    Land 30m North West Of The Gables, 88, Station Road, Croston

Decision:

It was proposed by Councillor Adrian Lowe, seconded by Councillor Roy Lees, and subsequently RESOLVED (7:0) to grant planning permission subject to a Section 106 Agreement and the following conditions:

1. Application for approval of the reserved matters must be made to the Council before the expiration of three years from the date of this permission and the development hereby permitted must be begun either before the expiration of five years from the date of this permission, or before the expiration of two years from the date of approval of the last of the reserved matters to be approved, whichever is the later.

Reason: Required to be imposed by Section 92 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.

2. Before the development hereby permitted is first commenced, full details of the following reserved matters (namely scale, appearance and landscaping shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

Reason: The permission is in outline only.

3. This consent relates to the following plans:

Plan Ref.            Received On:            Title:

03        19^th March 2007             Proposed site layout for a detached dwelling

02        19^th March 2007     Topographic Survey;

01        19^th March 2007              Site Location Plan

Reason:  To define the consent and to ensure all works are carried out in a satisfactory manner.

4. The application for approval of reserved matters shall be accompanied by full details of existing and proposed ground levels and proposed building slab levels (all relative to ground levels adjoining the site), notwithstanding any such detail shown on previously submitted 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.

5. Before the development hereby permitted is first commenced, full details of the position, height and appearance of all fences and walls to be erected (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 dwelling shall be occupied until all fences and walls shown in the approved details to bound its plot have been erected in conformity with the approved details.  Other fences and walls shown in the approved details shall have been erected in conformity with the approved details prior to substantial completion of the development.

Reason:  To ensure a visually satisfactory form of development, to provide reasonable standards of privacy to residentsand in accordance with Policy No. HS4 of the Adopted Chorley Borough Local Plan Review.

6. Surface water must drain separate from the foul and no surface water will be permitted to discharge to the foul sewerage system.

Reason: To secure proper drainage and in accordance with Policy Nos. EP17 and EM2 of the Adopted Chorley Borough Local Plan Review.

7. No development shall take place until details of the proposed surface water drainage arrangements have been submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority in writing.  No part of the development shall be occupied until the approved surface water drainage arrangements have been fully implemented.

Reason: To secure proper drainage and to prevent flooding and in accordance with Policy Nos. EP18 and EP19 of the Adopted Chorley Borough Local Plan Review.

8. Before the development hereby permitted is first commenced full details of the means of foul water drainage/disposal shall have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  No dwelling shall be occupied until the works for foul water drainage/disposal have been completed in accordance with the approved details.

Reason: To ensure proper drainage of the development and in accordance with Policy No. EP17 of the Adopted Chorley Borough Local Plan Review.

9. The layout of the development shall include provisions to enable vehicles to enter and leave the highway in forward gear.  This vehicular turning space shall be laid out and be available for use before the development is first occupied.

Reason:  Vehicles reversing to and from the highway are a hazard to other road users and in accordance with Policy No TR4 of the Adopted Chorley Borough Local Plan Review.

10. The development hereby permitted shall not commence until full details of the colour, form and texture of all external facing materials to the proposed building(s) (notwithstanding any details shown on the 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, HS4, of the Adopted Chorley Borough Local Plan Review.

11. The garages hereby permitted shall only be used for purposes incidental to the enjoyment of the dwellinghouse, including the parking of cars.  The garage shall not be used for any trade or business purposes.

Reason:  In order to safeguard the residential amenity and character of the area and in accordance with Policy Nos. DC8A, DC8B, HS4 and HS9 of the Adopted Chorley Borough Local Plan Review.

12. 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 sumitted 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, HS4 of the Adopted Chorley Borough Local Plan Review.

13. Notwithstanding the Provisions of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995, (Schedule 2, Part1, Classes A to E), or any order amending or revoking and re-enacting that Order, no alterations or extensions shall be undertaken to the dwelling(s) hereby permitted, or any garage, shed or other outbuilding erected (other than those expressly authorised by this permission).

Reason: To protect the appearance of the locality and in accordance with Policy No. HS4 of the Adopted Chorley Borough Local Plan Review.

14. The reserved matters for the dwelling hereby permitted in outline shall not include any windows in the north and south facing elevations of the dwelling at first floor level.

Reason: In the interests of the privacy of occupiers of neighbouring property.

15. 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.

16. 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.