Agenda item

Demolition of existing industrial unit and re-development of the site to provide 9 flats in a three storey building with associated communal garden at Engineering Works, Drayton Road, Tonbridge.

RESOLVED:  That planning permission be GRANTED, subject to:

(1)             the applicant entering into a planning obligation under Section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended) with the local planning authority to make a financial contribution towards public open space;

(2)             the submitted details, conditions, reasons and informatives set out in the main report of the Director of Planning, Housing and Environmental Health;

(3)             Amended Condition 10:

10. Notwithstanding the details provided by drawing number tr-1438-19LS, no above ground development shall take place until a full scheme of hard and soft landscaping across the site has been submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority. The scheme shall include full details of the size, species and location of all new planting. All planting, seeding and turfing comprised in the approved scheme of landscaping shall be implemented during the first planting season following occupation of the buildings or the completion of the development, whichever is the earlier.  Any trees or shrubs removed, dying, being seriously damaged or diseased within 10 years of planting shall be replaced in the next planting season with trees or shrubs of similar size and species, unless the Authority gives written consent to any variation.

Reason:  In the interests of visual amenity.

(4)             Additional Conditions:

11. Notwithstanding the details provided by drawing number tr-1438-19LS, no above ground development shall take place until a full scheme of boundary treatments to be installed across the site has been submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority. The scheme shall include details of the type and height of all such boundary treatments along with any associated regime for ongoing maintenance. Any boundary fences or walls or similar structures shall be erected before first occupation of the building hereby approved and shall be retained and maintained in accordance with the approved details in perpetuity.

Reason: In the interests of visual and residential amenity.

12. No above ground development shall take place until a scheme for the storage, screening and securing of the cycle store has been submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority. The cycle store shall thereafter be provided in accordance with the approved details prior to the first occupation of the development hereby approved and shall be retained at all times thereafter.

Reason: In order to ensure adequate provision of cycle storage to serve the development.

13. No external lighting shall be installed until full details have been submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority, and the work shall be carried out in strict accordance with those details and retained at all times thereafter.

Reason:  To ensure that the development does not harm the visual amenity of the locality or residential amenity.

(5)             Additional Informatives:

8. Pursuant to Condition 7, the applicant is advised to enter into early negotiations with the Local Planning Authority to ensure the precise palette of materials and associated means of external decoration across the development is acceptable.

9. Pursuant to Conditions 10 and 11, the application is advised that the detailed means of landscaping and boundary treatments should include provision for appropriately sized specimens.

10. The applicant is encouraged to consider opportunities for incorporating renewable energy technologies into the south facing roof slope of the building and for measures to support biodiversity within the construction of the building.

[Speakers:  Jack Ciupka – member of the public; Lucy Harvey – agent]