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1. The development hereby approved shall be commenced within five years of the date of this permission. 2. No development shall take place until full details of both hard and soft landscape works have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority and these works shall be carried out as approved. These details shall include:- i) materials to be used for any hard surfacing; ii) planting plans, including schedule of size, species, positions, density and times of planting. 3. The planting which shall have been approved consequent upon the submission of the scheme in accordance with Condition 2 above shall be carried out by a date which shall be not later than the end of the full planting season immediately following the completion of the development. Thereafter the planting shall be adequately maintained for a period of five years from the date of planting. Any of the trees or shrubs or both which die or are removed, or which become severely damaged or seriously diseased (during the said period of five years) shall be replaced with trees or shrubs or both, as the case may be, of similar size and species to those originally required to be planted and the same shall be maintained until properly established. 4. 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. 5. Before the new access is first brought into use, any existing access within the frontage of the land to be developed, not incorporated in the access hereby approved shall be closed in a manner to the Local Planning Authority's written approval. 6. Before the premises are occupied all on site vehicular areas shall be surfaced in a manner to the Local Planning Authority's approval so as to ensure satisfactory parking of vehicles outside highway limits. Arrangements shall be made for surface water from the site to be intercepted and disposed of separately so that it does not discharge into the highway. 7. The turning space for vehicles illustrated on the approved Plan (No. 2001/10/03) shall be constructed before the development is first brought into use. 8. No development shall take place until details of the means of protection of the existing trees and hedgerow on the site during building works have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority and any measures thereby approved shall be fully implemented until the development is completed. 9. Visibility splays shall be provided at the junction of the vehicular access with the public highway. The splays shall extend to the limits of the site's highway frontage on each side of the access from a point on the centre line of the access measured 2m back from the road channel. The vision splays so described shall be maintained free of any obstruction to visibility exceeding a height of 1050mm above the adjoining road channel level. <<U>>Reasons<<XU>> 1. 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. In the interests of the visual amenities of the site and the area generally. 3. In order to ensure that the landscaping is carried out within a reasonable period in the interest of the visual amenities of the area. 4. To protect the visual amenities of the building and of the area generally. 5. In the interest of road safety and to reduce the number of points at which traffic will enter and leave the public highway. 6. In order to minimise danger, obstruction and inconvenience to users of the highway and of the premises. 7. To enable vehicles to draw off, park and turn outside the highway limits thereby avoiding the reversing of vehicles onto the highway. 8. To safeguard the existing trees on the site in the interests of visual amenity. 9. To provide adequate visibility between the existing highway and the proposed access and to make the access safe and convenient for the traffic which is likely to use it. Signed...................... Date of Decision 1st June 2001 Head of Planning Services <<U>>Notes to the Applicant<<XU>> 1. The applicant is advised that no works associated with the construction of the vehicular access should be carried out within the confines of the public highway without the prior consent, in writing, of the Development Planning and Control Group, Environmental Services, Bedfordshire County Council, County Hall, Bedford, MK42 9AP. The applicant is also advised that if any of the works associated with the construction of the vehicular access affects or requires the removal and/or t relocation of any equipment, apparatus or structures (e.g. street name plates, bus stop signs or shelters, statutory authority equipment etc.) then the applicant will be required to bear the cost of such removal or alteration. 2. The applicant is advised that the requirements of the New Roads and Street works Act 1991 will apply to any works undertaken within the limits of the existing public highway. Further details can be obtained from the Bedfordshire County Council Consultants, The Babtie Group, P.O. Box 272, The Merton Centre, St Peter's Street, Bedford MK40 2ZY. 3. The applicant is advised that photographs of the existing highway that is to be used for access and delivery of materials will be required by the County Engineer. Any subsequent damage to public highway resulting from the works as shown by the photographs, including damage caused by delivery vehicles to the works, will be made good to the satisfaction of the County Engineer and at the expense of the applicant. Attention is drawn to Section 59 of the Highways Act 1980 in this respect. 4. The applicant is advised that the closure of existing access shall include the reinstatement of the highway to include any footway, verge and kerbing in a manner to be agreed in writing with the Development Planning & Control Group, Environmental Services, Bedfordshire County Council, County Hall, Bedford MK42 9AP. No work shall be carried out within the confines of the public highway without prior consent. The applicant will also be expected to bear all costs involved in closing the access. |
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