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Conditions or Reasons for Planning Application - MB/02/00398/FULL

Conditions or Reasons:

1) The development hereby approved shall be commenced within five years of the date of this permission.

Reason: To comply with Section 91 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 which is designed to ensure that a planning permission does not continue in existence indefinitely if the development to which it relates is not carried out.

2) The foundation structure of the (building)(extension) hereby approved shall be of a post-and-beam or pile-and-beam method of construction unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

Reason: To ensure the protection of trees and hedgerows to be retained, and in particular to avoid unnecessary damage to their root systems.

3) All external works hereby permitted shall be carried out in materials to match as closely as possible in colour, type and texture, those of the existing building.

Reason: To safeguard the appearance of the completed development by ensuring that the development hereby permitted is finished externally with materials to match/complement the existing building(s) and the visual amenities of the locality.

4) Prior to the commencement of any works on site details of a landscaped buffer/screen with a minimum width of 1.5m to be located along the south western boundary and to include appropriate trees, shrubs and other understorey planting shall be submitted with a timetable for implementation shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Implementation shall be PRIOR to the occupation of the development of any phase of it (whichever is the sooner) for its permitted use. The planting shall be maintained to encourage its establishment for a period of five years following practical completion of the development. Any trees or significant areas of planting which are removed, die or become, in the opinion of the Local Planning Authority, seriously damaged or defective within this period shall be replaced as soon as is reasonably practicable to the satisfaction of the Local Planning Authority.

Reason: To ensure an appropriate standard of visual amenity in the local area.

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