Agenda item

Erection of 25 dwellings comprising of 2 x one bed apartments, 8 x two bed apartment and dwellings, 11 x three bed houses and 4 x four bed houses and associated development

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

(1)         the amendment of condition 4 to read as follows:

4. No above ground development shall take place until a scheme of hard and soft landscaping and boundary treatment has been submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority.  The scheme shall include appropriate measures to ensure all hard surfacing is reflective of the rural character of the locality whilst being of a suitable type to withstand vehicle movements including refuse vehicles and maintain its quality in the long term. 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.  Any boundary fences or walls or similar structures as may be approved shall be erected before first occupation of the building to which they relate.                                        

Reason:  In the interests of visual amenity.

and (2) the addition of conditions

12. Prior to the commencement of the development hereby approved, arrangements for the management of all construction works shall be submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority.  The management arrangements to be submitted shall include (but not necessarily be limited to) the following:

·        The days of the week and hours of the day when the demolition and construction works will be limited to and measures to ensure these are adhered to;

·        Procedures for managing all traffic movements associated with the construction works including (but not limited to) the delivery of building materials to the site (including the times of the day when those deliveries will be permitted to take place and how/where materials will be offloaded into the site) and for the management of all other construction related traffic and measures to ensure these are adhered to; and
 

·        The specific arrangements for the parking of contractor’s vehicles within the site during construction and any external storage of materials or plant throughout the construction phase.

The development shall be undertaken in full compliance with the approved details.

Reason: In the interests of residential amenity and highway safety in accordance with Policy CP24 of the Tonbridge and Malling Borough Core Strategy 2007.

13. Development shall not begin in any phase until a detailed sustainable surface water drainage scheme for the site has been submitted to (and approved in writing by) the local planning authority. The detailed drainage scheme shall demonstrate that the surface water generated by this development (for all rainfall durations and intensities up to and including the climate change adjusted critical 100 year storm) can be accommodated and disposed of without increase to flood risk on or off-site.

The drainage scheme shall also demonstrate (with reference to published guidance):

·         that silt and pollutants resulting from the site use can be adequately managed to ensure there is no pollution risk to receiving waters.

·         appropriate operational, maintenance and access requirements for each drainage feature or SuDS component are adequately considered, including any proposed arrangements for future adoption by any public body or statutory undertaker.

The drainage scheme shall be implemented in accordance with the approved details.

Reason: To ensure the development is served by satisfactory arrangements for the disposal of surface water and to ensure that the development does not exacerbate the risk of on/off site flooding. These details and accompanying calculations are required prior to the commencement of the development as they form an intrinsic part of the proposal, the approval of which cannot be disaggregated from the carrying out of the rest of the development.

14. No building on any phase (or within an agreed implementation schedule) of the development hereby permitted shall be occupied until a Verification Report, pertaining to the surface water drainage system and prepared by a suitably competent person, has been submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority. The Report shall demonstrate the suitable modelled operation of the drainage system where the system constructed is different to that approved. The Report shall contain information and evidence (including photographs) of details and locations of inlets, outlets and control structures; landscape plans; full as built drawings; information pertinent to the installation of those items identified on the critical drainage assets drawing; and, the submission of an operation and maintenance manual for the sustainable drainage scheme as constructed.

Reason: To ensure that flood risks from development to the future users of the land and neighbouring land are minimised, together with those risks to controlled waters, property and ecological systems, and to ensure that the development as constructed is compliant with and subsequently maintained pursuant to the requirements of paragraph 165 of the National Planning Policy Framework.

[Speakers: Mr M Harvey, Hadlow Parish Council, made a verbal statement; the written statements of members of the public Mr K Mason, Mr L Gee, Mrs M Gee and Ms P Gee were read out by a Democratic Services Officer and Mr S Bayley made a verbal statement on behalf of Mr and Mrs N Bayley. Mr C Hough, agent, addressed the Committee via video-conferencing]