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Conditions or Reasons for Planning Application - CB/20/01233/FULL
Conditions or Reasons:
1) Notwithstanding the provisions of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015 (as amended) or any Order or enactment amending or re-enacting that Order no ancillary buildings or other structures, walls, fences, gates or other means of enclosure shall be erected on the site or on the adjoining land in the applicant's ownership other than in accordance with such amendment to the approved drawings as may be agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority or in accordance with a specific grant of planning consent in that regard.

Reason:  In order to ensure that the overall appearance of the development has regard to the views into and over the site and that the development has no unacceptable adverse effect upon general or residential amenity and having particular regard to the location of the site in the Green Belt, AONB and AGLV in accordance with Sections 13 and 15 of the NPPF and Policies BE8 and NE3 of the South Bedfordshire Local Plan Review.
2) No commercial activity shall take place on the Site (known as Site B), including the storage of materials.

Reason: In order to ensure that the development has no unacceptable adverse effect upon general or residential amenity and having particular regard to the location of the site in the Green Belt, AONB and AGLV (Policies BE8 and NE3 S.B.L.P.R, Chapter 12, 13 and 15 of the NPPF).
3) No commercial vehicles over 3.5 tonnes shall be stationed, parked or stored on any part of the site.

Reason: In order to ensure that the development has no unacceptable adverse effect upon general or residential amenity in accordance with Policy BE8 of the South Bedfordshire Local Plan Review and having regard to Sections 12 and 15 of the NPPF.
4) Within 9 months of the application being approved, the development shall be laid out with the pitches clearly marked out on the ground and the day rooms constructed and thereafter retained as shown on approved plan number 19.278-P5 Rev 1 where only one caravan can occupy each of the 29 pitches. Such caravan shall be a static caravan as identified on the approved plan as pitches C1- C9 or a touring caravan as identified as pitches T1-T20 unless otherwise approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

Reason:  In recognition of the protection of the amenities of the occupiers of the site in accordance with Policy BE8 of the South Bedfordshire Local Plan Review and Section 12 of the NPPF and having regard to the location of the site in the Green Belt, AONB and AGLV in accordance with Sections 13 and 15 of the NPPF and Policy NE3 of the South Bedfordshire Local Plan Review.
5) No caravan located on the site shall be occupied for residential purposes by persons other than Gypsies and Travellers, as defined in annexe 1 of Planning Policy for Traveller Sites 2012 stated below:

For the purposes of this planning policy 'gypsies and travellers' means Persons of nomadic habit of life whatever their race or origin, including such persons who on grounds only of their own or their family's or dependants' educational or health needs or old age have ceased to travel temporarily or permanently, but excluding members of an organised group of travelling showpeople or circus people travelling together as such.

Reason: To ensure that the occupation of the residential caravans on the site is restricted to any Gypsies and Travellers in recognition of the location of the site in the Green Belt and the identified need for Gypsy and Traveller sites in Central Bedfordshire including where they have ceased to travel. (Sections 5, 12 and 13 of the NPPF and Central Bedfordshire Gypsy and Traveller Accommodation Assessment (August 2016)).
6) All residential caravans together with any structures, equipment and materials brought on to or erected on the land, or works undertaken to it in connection with the siting of the caravans, shall be removed and the land shall be restored to its condition before the development took place within 28 days of the date of failure to meet any one of the requirements set out in (A) to (D) below:

(A) within 3 months of the date of this decision a scheme (including a timetable for completion of the works) detailing:

the waste storage facilities to serve the various parts of the site; and
a landscaping treatment scheme for the area marked as "play area" marked on the approved plan, clearly identifying details of all tree, hedge and shrub planting including details of species, plant sizes and proposed numbers as well as the material and height detail of the proposed fencing.
a suitable method of foul water disposal

shall have been submitted to the local planning authority;

(B) within 11 months of the date of this decision the site development scheme shall have been approved by the Local Planning Authority or, if the Local Planning Authority refuse to approve the scheme, or fail to give a decision within the prescribed period, an appeal shall have been made to, and accepted as validly made by, the Secretary of State;

(C) if an appeal is made in pursuance of (B) above, that appeal shall have been finally determined and the submitted site development scheme shall have been approved by the Secretary of State; and

(D) the approved scheme shall have been carried out and completed in accordance with the approved timetable, or in accordance with any amended details and/or revised timetables as might be agreed from time to time in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

Reason: In order to ensure that the proposal takes account for the need for hard and soft landscaping and that the development has no adverse effect upon general or residential amenity in accordance with Policy BE8 of the South Bedfordshire Local Plan Review and having particular regard to the location of the site in the Green Belt and an AONB and AGLV in accordance with Sections 12, 13 and 15 of the NPPF and Policy NE3 of the South Bedfordshire Local Plan Review.
7) At the same time as the site development scheme required by Condition 6 is submitted to the Local Planning Authority there shall be submitted a programme of management and maintenance of the foul drainage system for the lifetime of the development. The drainage system shall be managed and maintained in accordance with the approved programme.

Reason: In order to ensure that the development has no unacceptable adverse effect upon general or residential amenity in accordance with Policy BE8 of the South Bedfordshire Local Plan Review and having regard to Sections 14 and 15 of the NPPF.
8) At the same time as the site development scheme required by Condition 6 is submitted to the Local Planning Authority there shall be submitted a schedule of maintenance for a period of five years of the proposed planting beginning at the completion of the final phase of implementation as required by that condition; the schedule to make provision for the replacement, in the same position, of any tree, hedge or shrub that is removed, uprooted or destroyed or dies or, in the opinion of the Local Planning Authority, becomes seriously damaged or defective, with another of the same species and size as that originally planted. The maintenance shall be carried out in accordance with the approved schedule.

Reason: In order to ensure that the proposal takes account for the need for hard and soft landscaping in accordance with Policy BE8 of the South Bedfordshire Local Plan Review and having particular regard to the location of the site in the Green Belt and an AONB and AGLV in accordance with the provisions of Sections 12, 13 and 15 of the NPPF and Policy NE3 of the South Bedfordshire Local Plan.
9) The development hereby permitted shall not be carried out except in complete accordance with the details shown on the submitted plans, numbers 5138.01, 5138.22A, and 19.278-P5 Rev 1.

Reason: To identify the approved plans and to avoid doubt.


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