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Conditions or Reasons for Planning Application - CB/20/00706/FULL
Conditions or Reasons:
1) The development hereby permitted shall begin not later than three years from the date of this permission.

Reason: To comply with Section 91 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 as amended by Section 51 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004.
2) No above ground building work shall commence and notwithstanding the details submitted with the application, details of the materials to be used for the external windows, doors, walls, roofs and rainwater goods of the proposed building/s shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The development/work shall be carried out only in accordance with the approved details.

Reason: To ensure that the development/work is in keeping with the character and significance of the Potton Conservation Area. (Section 16, NPPF)
3) Prior to the occupation of the building a scheme shall be submitted for the approval in writing by the Local Planning Authority indicating the positions, design, materials and type of boundary treatment to be implemented. The boundary treatment shall be completed in accordance with the approved scheme before the use hereby permitted is commenced before the building is occupied and be thereafter retained.

Reason: To safeguard the appearance of the completed development and visual amenities of the Potton Conservation Area. (Section 16, NPPF)
4) No development shall take place until a landscaping scheme to include all hard and soft landscaping, rainwater harvesting feature, and landmark tree, as well as a scheme for landscape maintenance for a period of five years following the implementation of the landscaping scheme have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The approved scheme shall be implemented by the end of the full planting season immediately following the completion and/or first use of any separate part of the development (a full planting season means the period from October to March). The trees, shrubs and grass shall subsequently be maintained in accordance with the approved landscape maintenance scheme and any which die or are destroyed during this period shall be replaced during the next planting season.

Reason: To ensure an acceptable standard of landscaping.
(Sections 12 & 15, NPPF)
5) No above ground development shall take place until a scheme for protecting the proposed dwellings from noise arising from nearby transport, commercial and leisure & entertainment sources has been submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority. The scheme shall be supported and informed by an appropriate noise impact assessment carried out in accordance with relevant technical standards. None of the dwellings shall be occupied until such a scheme has been implemented in accordance with the approved details, and shown to be effective, and it shall be retained in accordance with those details thereafter.

Reason: To protect the amenity of future occupiers of the dwelling units hereby approved.
6) No works shall commence until a scheme to deal with contamination of land/ground gas/controlled waters has been submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority. The scheme shall include all of the following measures, unless the local planning authority dispenses with any such requirement specifically in writing:

1. A Phase I site investigation report carried out by a competent person to include a desk study, site walkover, the production of a site conceptual model and a human health and environmental risk assessment, undertaken in accordance with BS 10175: 2011 Investigation of Potentially Contaminated Sites Code of Practice.
2. A Phase II intrusive investigation report detailing all investigative works and sampling on site, together with the results of the analysis, undertaken in accordance with BS 10175:2011 Investigation of Potentially Contaminated Sites Code of Practice. The report shall include a detailed quantitative human health and environmental risk assessment.
3. A remediation scheme detailing how the remediation will be undertaken, what methods will be used and what is to be achieved. A clear end point of the remediation shall be stated, and how this will be validated. Any ongoing monitoring shall also be determined.
4. If during the works contamination is encountered which has not previously been identified, then the additional contamination shall be fully assessed in an appropriate remediation scheme which shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority.
5. A validation report detailing the proposed remediation works and quality assurance certificates to show that the works have been carried out in full accordance with the approved methodology shall be submitted prior to first occupation of the development. Details of any post-remedial sampling and analysis to demonstrate that the site has achieved the required clean-up criteria shall be included, together with the necessary documentation detailing what waste materials have been removed from the site.

Reason: To minimise and prevent pollution of the land and the water environment and in accordance with national planning policy guidance set out in section 11 of the National Planning Policy Framework, and in order to protect human health and the environment
7) Prior to occupation full details of mitigation, and enhancement measures for bird and bat species have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. These measures shall include

Bird and Bat Boxes located within the site.

The works shall be implemented in accordance with the approved details.

Reason: To ensure all impacts from development are taken into account and mitigated.
(Section 15, NPPF)
8) The development hereby permitted shall be undertaken in full accordance with the Councils adopted Construction Code of Practice for Developers and Contractors https://www.centralbedfordshire.gov.uk/info/44/planning/674/codes_of_practice_for_planning.

Reason: In order to minimise the impact of construction work on the amenities of nearby residential properties (Section 12, NPPF)
9) Notwithstanding the provisions of the Town and Country Planning General Permitted Development Order 1995, or any amendments thereto, the parking provision on the site shall not be used for any purpose, other than as parking provision unless permission has been granted by the Local Planning Authority on an application made for that purpose.
Reason: To retain off-street parking provision and thereby minimise the potential for on-street parking which could adversely affect the convenience of road users.
10) Prior to the construction of vehicular parking areas associated with the approved dwellings, a scheme for the charging of electric and ultra-low emission vehicles shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The scheme shall include timescales/ triggers for implementation of the scheme. The development shall be completed in accordance with these approved details including the agreed timescales/ triggers.

Reason: To assist with the transition to low-emission vehicles in line with paragraph 110 of the National Planning Policy Framework (2019).
11) The loading/unloading bay shall not be demarcated as two bays. The loading bays, may include timed public parking.

Reason: For the avoidance of doubt and to avoid the bay being used as two bays where vehicles will overhang into the carriageway and obstruct the free flow of traffic
12) The residential refuse collection point shall have an inward opening door located at the south from the footway with the drop kerb for manoeuvring the bins located within the radii of the parking bay. The drop kerb for manoeuvring the residential waste bins and the commercial bins shall measure no greater than 1.2m. The refuse collection points shall be retained thereafter unless otherwise agreed in writing by the local planning authority

Reason: For the avoidance of doubt, to make the waste collection workable and accessible and to avoid the drop kerbs being used for vehicle access and in the interest of amenity and in order to minimise danger, obstruction and inconvenience to users of the highway and the premises.
13) Details of the following shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority and the approved details shall be implemented prior to the development being brought into use;

A TRO for the loading/unloading bay inclusive of any keep clear hatching
A TRO for the public car parking space

Reason: To make the bays workable for the objective of their creation
14) No dwelling shall be occupied until a 2.0m wide footway has been realigned and constructed from the north side of the access, to the rear of the parking bay loading/unloading bay fronting the site, and join with the existing footway at the north in accordance with the approved drawing. Any Statutory Undertakers equipment or street furniture shall be resited to provide an unobstructed footway.

Reason: In the interests of road safety and pedestrian movement.
15) Before the premises are occupied all on site vehicular areas shall be surfaced in a stable and durable materials in accordance with details to be approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Arrangements shall be made for surface water drainage from the site to soak away within the site so that it does not discharge into the highway or into the main drainage system.

Reason: To avoid the carriage of mud or other extraneous material or surface water from the site so as to safeguard the interest of highway safety and reduce the risk of flooding and to minimise inconvenience to users of the premises and ensure satisfactory parking of vehicles outside highway limits
16) The use of the retail unit shown on plan 18127_02-02-002A shall be for A1 use retail.
Reason: For the avoidance of doubt.
17) No dwelling shall be occupied, until a scheme detailing a privacy screen to the terrace shown upon the western facing elevation for flat 1, has been provided to and agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The scheme shall be fully implemented prior to the occupation of the dwellings, and maintained in perpetuity.

Reason: In the interest of residential amenity, and the character and appearance of the area.
18) The development hereby permitted shall not be carried out except in complete accordance with the details shown on the submitted plans, numbers 02-05-003A, 02-05-004A, 18127_02-02-00A, 18127_02-03-0003A, 18127_02-03-0005B, 18127-02-05-0003A, 18127_02-03-004B, 18127_02-03-002A, 1812702-03-001, 1812702-05-001, 1812702-05-002, 1812702-02-001, 1812702-05-006.

Reason: To identify the approved plan/s and to avoid doubt.


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