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Conditions or Reasons for Planning Application - MB/03/01947/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 permission shall extend only to the application as amended by plans submitted on 4 December 2003.

Reason: For the avoidance of doubt and to ensure that the development is implemented in accordance with the plans formally approved by the Local Planning Authority.

3) 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:-

proposed finished levels or contours;
materials to be used for any hard surfacing;
proposed and existing functional services above and below ground level;
planting plans, including schedule of size, species, positions, density and times of planting;
cultivation details including operations required to establish new planting;

Reason: In the interest of the visual amenities of the area.

4) All hard and soft landscape works shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details. The works shall be carried out prior to the occupation of any part of the development or in accordance with a programme agreed in writing with the Local Planning Authority.

Reason: In order to ensure that the planting is carried out within a reasonable period in the interest of the visual amenities of the area.

5) Prior to the commencement of works details including location, height and materials of temporary protective fencing or hoardings and areas prohibited from use by contractors and such other measures to be taken in the interests of existing tree protection shall have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority and implemented as approved.

Reason: To safeguard the existing trees on the site in the interests of visual amenity.

6) No trees, shrubs or hedges existing on the site shall be removed or cut down without the prior written consent of the Local Planning Authority.

Reason: To safeguard the existing shrubs and hedges on the site in the interest of visual amenity.

7) There shall be no storage of plant or materials within the areas of temporary protective fencings as required by condition 5 above.

Reason: To safeguard the existing trees on the site in the interests of visual amenity.

8) Notwithstanding any provision of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development Order) 1995 (or any Order revoking or re-enacting that Order with or without modification) no works shall be commenced for the extension of the building(s) or any material alteration of its external appearance until detailed plans and elevations have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

Reason: To protect the amenities of occupiers of neighbouring properties.

9) Details of the materials to be used for the external walls and roof shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority prior to the commencement of the development hereby permitted.

Reason: To protect the visual amenities of the building and of the area generally.

10) The proposed vehicular access shall be surfaced in tarmacadam or other similar durable material as may be approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority for a distance of 2 m into the site, measured from the highway boundary, before the premises are occupied. Arrangements shall be made for surface water drainage from the site to be intercepted and disposed of separately so that it does not discharge into the highway.

Reason: To avoid the carriage of mud or other extraneous material or surface water from the site into the highway so as to safeguard the interest of highway safety.

11) 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.

Reason: In order to minimise danger, obstruction and inconvenience to users of the highway and of the premises.

12) The turning space for vehicles illustrated on the approved Plan (No. 404/4R1) shall be constructed before the development is first brought into use.

Reason: To enable vehicles to draw off, park and turn outside of the highway limits thereby avoiding the reversing of vehicles onto the highway.

13) Before the premises are occupied 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.

Reason: In the interests of road safety and to reduce the number of points at which traffic will enter and leave the public highway.

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