Agenda item

To consider the report of the Assistant Director City Development.

(Report circulated)

The Senior Area Planning Officer presented the application for two detached dwellings at Pilton House, Pilton Lane, Exeter.

The site was a rectangular area of land covering approximately 0.17ha.  It was mainly laid to grass and formed an extended garden area to Pilton House. The site would be accessed by a wide double gated entrance off Harts Lane. Outline planning permission was sought for two dwelling houses.  All matters were reserved for future consideration. 

Members were circulated with an update sheet giving details of an additional condition.

The recommendation was for the application to be delegated to the Assistant Director City Development to approve subject to the completion of a Section 106 Agreement securing the matters referred to in the circulated report, the conditions set out in the report and the additional condition on the update sheet.

RESOLVED that planning permission for two detached dwellings (All matters reserved for future consideration), be delegated to the Assistant Director City Development to approve subject the completion of a Section 106 Agreement securing the matters referred to in the report and the following conditions:-

1)        C01  -  Standard Outline

2)        C04  -  Outline - Exclude Details

3)        C06  -  Time Limit - Approval of Reserved Matter

4)        C07  -  Time Limit - Outline

5)         The development hereby permitted shall not be carried out otherwise than in strict accordance with the submitted details (insofar as they relate to matters controlled by this outline consent) received by the Local Planning Authority on 31 May 2012 (dwg. nos. PL/254.01, PL/254/2, PL/254/.03 & PL/254/04)as modified by other conditions of this consent.

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

6)        C17  -  Submission of Materials

7)        C34  -  Landscape Scheme - Outline

8)        C36  -  No Trees to be Felled

9)        C37  -  Replacement Planting

10)      C38  -  Trees - Temporary Fencing

11)       No part of the development hereby approved shall be occupied until the on-site parking facilities together with any means of access have been provided in accordance with details that shall previously have been submitted to, agreed and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority and retained for those purposes at all times.

Reason: To ensure that adequate facilities are available for the traffic attracted to the site.

12)       No other part of the development hereby approved shall be commenced until adequate areas shall have been made available within the site to accommodate operative's vehicles, construction plant and materials in accordance with details that shall previously have been submitted to, agreed and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority and retained for those purposes during the construction period.

Reason: To ensure that adequate facilities are available for the traffic attracted to the site during the construction period having regard to the limited width of access to the site, in the interest of public safety.

13)       The buildings comprised in the development hereby approved shall be constructed to have all their heating systems (including space and water heating) compatible with the proposed decentralised energy network. Prior to occupation of the development, the necessary on-site infrastructure shall be put in place for connection of those systems to the network at a point on the site boundary agreed in writing by the LPA. 

            Reason: In the interests of sustainable development.

14)       No dwelling hereby approved shall be occupied until the applicant has submitted a SAP calculation which demonstrates that, through the use of decentralised energy or local energy networks and renewable or low carbon energy sources, a 10% reduction in CO2 emissions over that necessary to meet the requirements of the Building Regulations current at the time of Building Regulations approval can be achieved. The measures necessary to achieve this CO2 saving shall thereafter be implemented on site.

            Reason: In the interests of sustainable development.

15)       Any individual dwelling hereby approved shall achieve a Code Level 3 as a minimum, but shall achieve a Code Level 4 if commenced on or after 1st January 2013, and a Code Level 5 if commenced on or after 1st January 2016, in accordance with the requirements of the Code for Sustainable Homes: Technical Guide (or such equivalent national measure of sustainability for house design that replaces that scheme) and Exeter Core Strategy Policy CP15. No dwelling shall be occupied until a Final Code Certificate has been issued for it certifying that a Final Code Level of 3,4 or 5 has been achieved as appropriate.

Reason: In the interests of sustainable development.

16)       The Local Planning Authority shall be notified in writing of any dwelling for which construction is commenced before 1st January 2013 and for any dwelling for which construction is commenced thereafter but before 1st January 2016, within 10 working days of those dates.

            Reason: In the interests of sustainable development.

17)       Construction/demolition 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 local amenity.

18)       Prior to occupation of the development hereby permitted, secure cycle parking shall be provided in accordance with details previously submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority, and the cycle parking shall be maintained thereafter.

Reason: To ensure that cycle parking is provided, to encourage travel by sustainable means in accordance with Local Plan policy T3."

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.

(Report circulated)