Agenda item

PLANNING APPLICATION NO.11/1951/03 & LISTED BUILDING CONSENT NO.11/1949/07 - Dean Clarke House, Southernhay East, Exeter

To consider the report of the Assistant Director City Development.

 

(Report circulated)

 

Minutes:

The Assistant Director City Development presented the planning application and listed building consent for change of use and alterations from offices to 24 flats and 6 office suites at Dean Clarke House, Southernhay East, Exeter.

 

Members were advised of the planning history and that the building had been empty for four years and was deteriorating rapidly. This proposed scheme now sought to preserve the board room on the ground floor in office use. There would be five, two bed, affordable units on the ground floor which would be wheelchair accessible. The planning permission was for a period of one year only to encourage development to be brought forward as soon as possible.

 

The recommendation was delegated to the Assistant Director City Development to approve the planning application subject to agreeing a change in levels to the rear, the completion of a Section 106 Agreement in respect of affordable housing and a financial contribution to Natura 2000 of £8,400 (24 units x £350) and the conditions as set out in the report. The recommendation for the listed building consent was to approve subject to the conditions as set out in the report.

 

Professor Wigginton (architect) spoke in support of the applications. He raised the following points:-

  • been working on this project since 2006
  • market not right for purely office use
  • worked closely with officers
  • had been a large and difficult project
  • the building was destroyed by the NHS
  • a boutique hotel was not viable
  • the building was in terrible state and would like to get started as soon as possible.

 

RESEOLVED that planning permission for change of use from offices to 24 flats and 6 office suites bedelegated to the Assistant Director City Development to approve subject agreeing a change to levels to the rear, the completion of a Section 106 Agreement in respect of affordable housing, a financial contribution to Natura 2000 of £8,400 (24 units x £350) and the following conditions:-

 

1)

The development to which this permission relates must be begun not later than the expiration of one year beginning with the date on which this permission is granted.

Reason:  To ensure compliance with sections 91-92 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.

 

2)

C15  -  Compliance with Drawings

 

3)

C17  -  Submission of Materials

 

4)

C35  -  Landscape Scheme

 

5)

C37  -  Replacement Planting

 

6)

C57  -  Archaeological Recording

 

7)

Notwithstanding condition no 2, no work shall commence on site under this permission until full details of the following have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority and the following shall thereafter be provided in accordance with such details

i) full details of any new extract vents, including size, height and position

ii) any new or replacement rainwater goods shall match the existing in terms of material, colour and section.

iii) all existing windows shall be restored to working order or if rotten, replaced and subsequently maintained on a like for like basis.

iv) all existing architectural features, whether currently visible or not, such as hidden cornices, tiled cills and original skirting boards, architraves and doors shall be retained within the development for re-use.

v) refuse storage facilities

vi) location of site compound

vii) lighting

viii) parking surface area.

Reason: Insufficient information has been submitted with the application and in the interests of visual amenity.

 

8)

No part of the development hereby approved shall be brought into its intended use until a Green Travel Plan shall have been submitted to, agreed and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority and thereafter implemented at all times.

Reason: In the interests of sustainable transport.

 

9)

Prior to commencement of the development, details shall be submitted to the Local Planning Authority of the proposed cycle parking facilities. Development shall not be commenced until such details have been agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority, and prior to first occupation of the development, the cycle parking shall be provided in accordance with the approved details.

Reason: To encourage use of cycling as a sustainable mode of transport, in accordance with Local Plan policy T3.

 

10)

No part of the development hereby approved shall be commenced until a construction statement, to include details of: 

a) parking and vehicles of site personnel, operatives and visitors;

b) loading and unloading of planting and materials;

c) storage of plant and materials;

d) programme of works to include measures for traffic management;

e) vehicle washdown measures and facilities; and

f) provision of boundary hoarding

have been submitted to, agreed and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority and carried out in accordance with the agreed details throughout the development works.

Reason:  In the interests of public safety and to ensure that adequate on-site facilities are available throughout the development period.

 

11)

No construction work shall not take place outside the following times: 8 am to 6pm Monday to Fridays, 8am to 1 pm on Saturdays nor at any time on Sundays, Bank or Public Holidays.

Reason: In the interest of residential amenity.

 

12)

No development shall commence until a noise assessment report to appraise the scheme in respect of protecting the proposed accommodation from noise from road traffic has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority and thereafter implemented in accordance with the agreed recommendations.

Reason: To protect the future hotel residents road traffic noise.

 

13)

C70  -  Contaminated Land

 

In the event that the Section 106 Agreement is not completed within 3 months of the date of this committee meeting, authority be delegated to the Assistant Director City Development to refuse permission for the reason that inadequate provision has been made for the matters which were intended to be dealt within the Section 106 Agreement.

 

RESEOLVED that listed building consent for alterations to provide 24 flats and 6 office suites be approved subject to the following conditions:-

 

1)

C08  -  Time Limit - L.B. and Conservation Area

 

2)

C15  -  Compliance with Drawings

 

3)

C57  -  Archaeological Recording

 

4)

Notwithstanding condition no 2, no work shall commence on site under this permission until full details of the following have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority and the following shall thereafter be provided in accordance with such details

i) full details of any new extract vents, including size, height and position

ii) any new or replacement rainwater goods shall match the existing in terms of material, colour and section.

iii) all existing windows shall be restored to working order or if rotten, replaced and subsequently maintained on a like for like basis.

iv) all existing architectural features, whether currently visible or not, such as hidden cornices, tiled cills and original skirting boards, architraves and doors shall be retained within the development for re-use.

vi) refuse storage facilities

vii) location of site compound

viii) lighting.

Reason: Insufficient information has been submitted with the application and in the interests of visual amenity.

 

(Report circulated)

 

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