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Conditions or Reasons for Planning Application - MB/05/01267/SE73
Conditions or Reasons:
1) The development hereby approved shall be commenced within three 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) 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:-

means of enclosure;
planting plans, including schedule size, sepecies, positions, density and times of planting;
details of existing trees and hedgrows on the site indicating those to be retained and the method of their protection during development;

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

Reason: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) No development shall take place until there has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority a plan indicating the positions, design, materials and type of boundary treatment to be erected. The boundary treatment shall be completed before the buildings are occupied.

Reason: To protect the amenities of occupiers of neighbouring dwellings.
5) 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.
6) The first floor windows serving bedrooms 2 and 4 of the development hereby permitted shall be of fixed type and fitted with obscured glass of a type to substantially restrict vision through them at all times, details of which shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority prior to the commencement of development. No further windows or other openings shall be formed in the elevation.

Reason: To safeguard the amenities of occupiers of adjoining properties.
7) The ground floor windows in the eastern elevation of the development hereby permitted shall be of fixed type and fitted with obscured glass of a type to substantially restrict vision through it at all times, details of which shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority prior to the commencement of development. No further windows or other openings shall be formed in the elevation.

Reason: To safeguard the amenities of occupiers of adjoining properties
8) No development shall take place until details of the removal of the existing gates to the site access have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The measures hereby approved shall be implemented before development is completed.

Reason: In the interests of road safety.
9) The double garage hereby approved shall be a facility permanently available to the occupiers of No. 12 Flitwick Road.

Reason: To retain off-street parking provision and thereby minimalise the potential for on-street parking which could adversely affect the convenience of road users.
10) Before the access is first brought into use a triangular vision splay shall be provided on each side of the new access and shall measure 1.8m along the fence, wall, hedge or other means of definition of the front boundary of the site and 1.8m measured into the site at right angles to the same line along the side of the new access drive. The vision splays so described and on land under the applicant's control shall be maintained free of any obstruction to visibility exceeding a height of 600mm above the adjoining footway level.

Reason: 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.
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. SR002-C) shall be constructed before the development is first brought into use.

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


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