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Conditions or Reasons for Planning Application - SB/03/01826
Conditions or Reasons:
1) The development shall begin not later than five years from the date of this permission.
REASON: To comply with Section 91 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.
2) Before development begins, samples of the materials to be used for the external walls and roofs of all new buildings shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the District Planning Authority.
REASON: To control the appearance of the building/s.
(Policies 10, B.S.P.; BE8, H8, S.B.L.P.R.).
3) Notwithstanding the provisions of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995 (or any order revoking and re-enacting that Order with or without modification), no extensions to the building/s hereby permitted shall be carried out without the grant of further specific permission from the District Planning Authority.
REASON: To control the external appearance of the building/s in the interests of the amenities of the area.
(Policies 10, B.S.P.; BE8, S.B.L.P.R.).
4) Development shall not begin until details of the junction of the proposed vehicular access with the highway have been approved by the District Planning Authority and no building shall be occupied until the junction has been constructed in accordance with the approved details.
REASON: In order to minimise danger, obstruction and inconvenience to users of the highway and the premises.
(Policies 42, B.S.P.; T1, S.B.L.P.R.).
5) Visibility splays shall be provided at the junction of the access with the public highway before the development is brought into use. The minimum dimensions to provide the required splay lines shall be 2.4m measured along the centre line of the proposed access from its junction with the channel of the public highway and 70m (south) and 120m (north) measured from the centre line of the proposed access along the line of the channel of the public highway. The required vision splays shall, on land in the applicant¿s control, be kept free of any obstruction exceeding a height of 1.05m.
REASON: To provide adequate visibility between the existing highway and the proposed access(es), and to make the access(es) safe and convenient for the traffic which is likely to use it (them).
(Policies 42, B.S.P.; T1, S.B.L.P.R.).
6) Any gates provided shall open away from the highway and be set back a distance of at least 5.0m from the nearside edge of the carriageway of the adjoining highway.
REASON: To enable vehicles to draw off the highway before the gates are opened.
(Policies 42, B.S.P.; T1, S.B.L.P.R.).
7) The maximum gradient of the vehicular access shall be 10% (1 in 10).
REASON: In the interests of the safety of persons using the access and users of the highway.
(Policies 42, B.S.P.; T1, S.B.L.P.R.).
8) Before development begins, a landscaping scheme to include any hard surfaces and earth mounding shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the District 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 for a period of five years from the date of planting and any which die or are destroyed during this period shall be replaced during the next planting season and maintained until satisfactorily established.
REASON: To ensure a satisfactory standard of landscaping.
(Policies 8, 10, B.S.P.; BE11, S.B.L.P.R).
9) Details of a screen fence to be erected in the position shown on Drawing No. L2 Rev. A received 12/12/03 shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the District Planning Authority and the screen fence as approved shall be erected before the development is first occupied or brought into use and thereafter retained.
REASON: To ensure that privacy is adequately maintained.
(Policies 10, B.S.P.; BE8, S.B.L.P.R.)
10) Before the commencement of development a bat survey shall be undertaken of the upper storey attic space, in accordance with a scheme to be agreed with English Nature and the District Planning Authority. If the presence of bats is confirmed on the application site, the survey shall specify (a) how the development will affect the bat colony, and (b) proposed mitigation measures aimed at minimising the impact of the development on the bat colony shall be proposed. Mitigation proposals shall be discussed and agreed with English Nature and the District Planning Authority before the commencement of work on the development.
REASON: In order to protect any bats and/or their roosts under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.
(Policies 4, B.S.P.; NE7, S.B.L.P.R.).
11) The existing trees shall be retained in a manner to be approved in writing by the District Planning Authority and shall not be destroyed, uprooted, felled, lopped or topped during that period without the previous written consent of the District Planning Authority. Any trees removed without such consent or dying or being severely damaged or becoming seriously diseased shall be replaced by trees of such size and species as may be agreed with the District Planning Authority. Such trees shall subsequently be maintained for a period of five years from the date of planting and any which die or are destroyed during this period shall be replaced during the next planting season and maintained until satisfactorily established.
REASON: To comply with Section 197 of the Town and Country Planning Planning Act and to safeguard existing trees on site.
(Policies 8, 10, B.S.P.; NE4, BE8, S.B.L.P.R.).
12) Notwithstanding the provisions of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995 (or any order revoking and re-enacting that Order with or without modification), any garage, car port or parking space hereby permitted shall be kept permanently available for the parking of motor vehicles.
REASON: To ensure that off-street parking is retained in the interests of highway safety.
(Policies 42, B.S.P.; T14, S.B.L.P.R.).
13) Before development begins, the buildings shown hatched black on Drawing No.L2 Rev.A received 12/12/03 shall be demolished and the resultant material removed from the site.
REASON: In order to safeguard the openness of the Green Belt at this particular location.
(Policy 24, B.S.P.; GB1, S.B.L.P.R.)
14) The premises shall only be used for Office Use and for no other purpose including any other purpose in Class B1 of the Schedule to the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987 (or any order revoking and re-enacting that Order with or without modification).
REASON: To control the development in the interests of amenity.
(Policies 10 B.S.P.; BE8, S.B.L.P.R.)
15) This permission relates only to the details shown on Drawings No.L2 Rev.A and P3 Rev. B received 12/12/03 and Revised Drawing No. P4 received 08/03/04 or to any subsequent appropriately endorsed revised plan.
REASON: To identify the approved plan/s and to avoid doubt.


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