Agenda item

To consider the report of the Head of Planning and Building Control.

(Report circulated)

The Development Manager presented the application for extension to extant planning consent for redevelopment to provide 8 self-contained flats, parking, cycle bin/store, access to highway and associated works at 98 Honiton Road, Exeter.

Members were advised that in 2008 full planning permission was granted to demolish the existing house and redevelop the site with a two storey building comprising 8 flats. That application was due to lapse and this application was for an extension of time to the approval granted in 2008.

The recommendation was to approve the application subject to the conditions set out in the report.

RESOLVED that the application for extension to extant planning permission for redevelopment to provide 8 self-contained flats, parking, cycle bin/store, access to highway and associated works (Extension of Time for extant Planning Permission Ref No 08/0267/03 granted 30 June 2008) be approved subject to the following conditions:

1)         C05  -  Time Limit - Commencement

2)         The development hereby permitted shall not be carried out otherwise than in strict accordance with the submitted details received by the Local Planning Authority on 24 April (dwg. no(s). 5999-08B), and 16 May 2008 (dwg. no(s) 5999_06B, 07C and 10A) as modified by other conditions of this consent.

Reason: In order to ensure compliance with the approved drawings.

3)         C17  -  Submission of Materials

4)         C35  -  Landscape Scheme  

5)         C37  -  Replacement Planting

6)         C38  -  Trees - Temporary Fencing

7)         The hedges on the boundaries of the site shall be retained to the satisfaction of the Local Planning Authority.

Reason: In the interests of visual and residential amenity.

8)         The existing newly constructed footway/cycleway route on Ringswell Avenue shall be reinstated to a condition and standard acceptable to the Local Planning Authority as soon as possible following construction of the new access to the site.

Reason: To ensure that there is no detriment to existing public highway infrastructure as a result of the development.

9)         No part of the development hereby approved shall be brought into its intended use until the parking facilities and visibility splays have been provided in accordance with full details that have first been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. 

Reason: In the interests of parking and highway safety.

10)       The existing access shall be effectively and permanently closed as soon as the new access is capable of use. 

Reason: To prevent use of a substandard access and to minimise the number of accesses onto the public highway.

11)       Before the development hereby approved is brought into use the proposed windows in the west elevation of the property shall be permanently glazed with obscure glass and thereafter so maintained. 

            Reason: To protect the amenities of the adjoining property.

12)       Construction work shall not take place outside the following times: 8am to 6pm (Mondays to Fridays); 8am to 1pm (Saturdays); nor at any time on Sundays, Bank or Public Holidays.

Reason: In the interests of residential amenity.

13)       The applicant shall undertake a background noise survey and development shall not begin until a scheme for protecting the proposed accommodation from noise from vehicular traffic has been submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority, and all works which form part of the scheme shall be completed before any of the permitted dwellings are occupied. The applicant should aim to achieve at least the ‘Reasonable’ standards for internal noise level in residential properties specified in BS8233:1999 Sound Insulation and Noise Reduction for Buildings – Code of Practice. 

Reason: In the interests of the amenity of occupants of the development.

14)       The existing hedge bounding the site shall be retained unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

Reason: In the interests of visual amenity and to ensure that the proposed amenity space is screened to protect the privacy of the future occupants of the property.

15)       No development shall take place until a Wildlife Plan has been produced by the applicant and approved by the Local Planning Authority. The wildlife plan should state how the proposed development will be managed in perpetuity to enhance wildlife.

Reason: In the interests of promoting opportunities for wildlife.

(Report circulated)