Agenda item

Report of the Director of Development and Regeneration (enclosed)

Application no:                   07/00414/CB4

Proposal:                   Erection of two one bedroom flats

Location:                    240 – 242, Spendmore Lane, Coppull, Chorley

Decision:                   

It was proposed by Councillor E Bell, seconded by Councillor D Gee and subsequently RESOLVED (9:0) to grant full planning permission, subject to 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 91 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.

2. The development hereby permitted shall not commence until samples of all external facing materials to the proposed buildings (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 No. GN5 of the Adopted Chorley Borough Local Plan Review.

3. 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 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. The external facing materials detailed on the approved plan(s) shall be used and no others substituted without the prior written approval of the Local Planning Authority.

Reason:  To ensure that the materials used are visually appropriate to the locality and in accordance with Policy Nos. GN5, DC8A, DC8B, HT2, HT3, HT7, HS4, HS9, EM3, EM4A and EM5 of the Adopted Chorley Borough Local Plan Review.

7. Before the development commences full details of the type and location of bin storage shall be submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority. Such details as approved shall be implemented in full prior to the first occupation of any of the dwellings and retained thereafter.

Reason: In the interests of amenity and in accordance with policy GN5 of the Adopted Chorley Borough Local Plan Review.

8. Before development commences full details of the proposed boundary treatments shall be submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority. Such details as approved shall be implemented in full prior to first occupation of any of the dwellings and retained thereafter.

Reason: In the interests of visual amenity and in accordance with policy GN5 of the Adopted Chorley Borough Local Plan Review.