Agenda item

New build Jaguar Land Rover showroom and aftersales facility.  The application includes a new showroom, drive-in service lane, 20 bay workshop with MOT facility, external valet structure and associated external works at Land North and South of Woodgate Way, Tonbridge.

RESOLVED:  That planning permission be granted in accordance with the submitted details, conditions, reasons and informatives set out in the report and supplementary report of the Director of Planning, Housing and Environmental Health, subject to the amendment of conditions 2, 9 and 10, the addition of condition 17 and the addition of Informatives 4, 5 and 6 as follows:

Conditions

2.  The developmentshallbe carried outinaccordancewith thefollowing approved plans and documents:

TechnicalSpecification received 07.02.2017,Other APPENDIX1 received 30.11.2016,Site Plan3199-010 Existing SitePlanreceived 30.11.2016,Existing Elevations3199-015ExistingSite Sectionsreceived 30.11.2016,Sections 3199-019 Proposed BuildingSections received 30.11.2016,ProposedElevations 3199-020 Proposed Valet_ BinStorereceived 30.11.2016,Proposed Plans and Elevations 3199-021Bin Storereceived 30.11.2016,Proposed Floor Plans3199-040-H Proposed GroundFloor received 30.11.2016,Proposed Floor Plans3199-041-H Proposed First Floorreceived 30.11.2016,Proposed Roof Plan3199-042-E Proposed Roof Planreceived 30.11.2016,Proposed Floor Plans3199-045-C Floor PlanAreasreceived 30.11.2016,ProposedElevations 3199-061-D ProposedSouth and East received 30.11.2016,Proposed Elevations 3199-062-DProposed North and West received 30.11.2016,TopographicalSurveyCM/16639received 30.11.2016, Location Plan3199-001received 30.11.2016,Letter STAGE1 ROAD SAFETY AUDIT LETTERreceived 01.12.2016,AcousticAssessment  BS4142ASSESSMENT REPORTreceived 30.11.2016,Report STAGE1 ROAD SAFETYAUDIT V1 received 01.12.2016,Flood RiskAssessment NOVEMBER 2016received 30.11.2016, Transport StatementADL/CC/3329/04A April 2017received 04.04.2017,TravelPlan ADL/CC/3329/04AApril 2017received 04.04.2017,ArchaeologicalAssessment REPORT NO 17/14received 10.04.2017,TreeReport  TCL-K2-TL/AIAreceived 06.04.2017,EcologicalAssessment  EXTENDED PHASE 1FinalReportV531.3.17 received 06.04.2017,Other LANDSCAPE AND VISUAL IMPACTApril 2017received 10.04.2017,Design and Access Statement APRIL 2017received 10.04.2017, Lighting  50707-E01T3 received 07.04.2017,Lighting50707-E02T3 received 07.04.2017,ProposedElevations  3199-016B Context South _East Elevations received 10.04.2017,Sections3199-018B Proposed SiteSectionsreceived 10.04.2017,Parking Layout 3199-030M Proposed SitePlanreceived 10.04.2017, Planting Plan16-61-PL-202REV Ereceived 09.06.2017,Planting Plan16-61-PL-201 REV Ereceived 09.06.2017.

Reason:To ensurethat thedevelopmentis carried outin accordance withthe plans and documentsherebyapproved.

9. The developmentherebypermitted shallnot be commenceduntil suchtime asa schemeto ensure a suitableflood compensation strategy(to offset raising of ground levels in the areashown to bewithin FloodZones 3of the EnvironmentAgency Flood Map) hasbeensubmitted to, and approved inwriting by the LocalPlanning Authority. Thereafterthe approved scheme shallbe fullyimplemented as part ofthe developmentherebypermitted.

Reason:To preventan increased riskof flooding elsewherebeyond the application site, inaccordancewiththe guidance contained intheNationalPlanning Policy Framework(paragraph 103).

10. The developmentherebypermitted shallnot befirst bought into useuntil details ofthe arrangementsfor deliveriesto thesite by car transportervehicleshasbeen submitted to and approved inwriting by theLocalPlanningAuthority.The submitted details shall includemovementof suchvehicles entering and exiting the site,arrangementsfor themanagementof entrancegates,togetherwith managementmeasures in the eventof out-of-hoursdeliveriesto preventparking on the adjoining highway. Thereafter,the siteshallbe operated at all times instrict accordancewith theapproved details.

Reason:In the interests of highwaysafetyand toensurea successfulintegration of thedevelopmentwithin the surrounding highwaynetwork including adjacent PrimarySchool and SomerhillGreen residentialdevelopment.

17. The developmentherebypermitted shallbe constructed at the levelsdetailson ‘ProposedSite Sections’(drawing3199-018B).

Reason:  In the interests of visual amenityand in order to protect surrounding residential amenityand the characterof theHigh WealdAreaof Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Informatives

4. The applicantisreminded that,in undertaking theworksherebyapproved, due regard should be hadto theprovisionsof the Wildlifeand CountrysideAct 1981(as amended)relating to theprotection ofspeciesand habitats. The applicantis recommendedto seekfurther advicefrom the NaturalEngland,CountyHall, SpetchleyRoad,Worcester, WR52NP orvia  https://www.gov.uk/topic/planning-development/protected-sites-species

5.  The applicant is strongly encouraged to avoid the internal illumination of the building outside of operating hours.

6.  The applicant is strongly encouraged to consider the possibility of further supplementing and strengthening the planting along the southern boundary (with the A26) and the western boundary (with Barnes Lodge Care Home) wherever possible. 

[Speakers:  Ms D Huntingford, Chair of Governors, The Schools at Somerhill; Mr L Prebble and Ms D Huntingford on behalf of Tonbridge Civic Society – members of the public, and Mrs S Page on behalf of the Applicant]