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Conditions or Reasons for Planning Application - MB/05/01701/FULL
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:

materials to be used for any hard surfacing;
planting plans, including schedule of size, species, positions, density and times of planting;
cultivation details including operations required to establish new planting;
details of existing trees and hedgerows on the site, indicating those to be retained and the method of their protection during development works.

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 planting is carried out within a reasonable period in the interest of the visual amenities of the area.
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6) Details of the method of disposal of foul and surface water drainage shall be submitted to and agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority including any land drainage system, before the development is commenced. Thereafter no part of the development shall be brought into use until the approved drainage scheme has been implemented.

Reason: To ensure that adequate foul and surface water drainage is provided and that existing and future land drainage needs are protected.
7) No dwelling shall be occupied until visibility splays have been provided at the junction of the estate road with the public highways to accord with the detail as indicated on submitted drawing plan 15467/1007/D. The vision splays required shall be provided and defined on the site by or on behalf of the developers and be kept free of any obstruction.

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.
8) Development shall not begin until the detailed plans and sections of the proposed road(s), including gradients and method of surface water disposal have been approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority and no building shall be occupied until the section of road which provides access to has been constructed (apart from final surfacing) in accordance with the approved details.

Reason: To ensure that the proposed roadworks are constructed to an adequate standard.
9) 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.
10) Notwithstanding the provisions of the Town and Country Planning General Permitted Development Order 1995, or any amendments thereto, the garage accommodation on the site shall not be used for any purpose, other than as garage accommodation, unless permission has been granted by the Local Planning Authority on an application made for that purpose.

Reason: To retain off-street parking provision and thereby minimise the potential for on-street parking which could adversely affect the convenience of road users.
11) No development shall commence until a wheel cleaning facility has been provided at all site exits in accordance with a scheme to be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The wheel cleaner(s) shall be removed from the site once the roadworks necessary to provide adequate access from the public highway have been completed (apart from final surfacing) to the satisfaction of the Local Planning Authority.

Reason: In the interests of the amenity and to prevent the deposit of mud or other extraneous material on the highway during the construction period.
12) No dwelling shall be occupied until the junction of the estate road and associated works to Broad Green and footway along Crawley Road, to include the provision of bus stop facilities as required, have been completed in accordance with details to be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Any statutory Undertakers equipment or street furniture shall be re-sited to provide an unobstructed footway.

Reason: In the interest of road safety and pedestrian movement.
13) Details of external lighting to the parking courts, including the design of the lighting units, any supporting structure, the extent of the areas to be illuminated and the management regime to ensure availability during the hours of darkness, shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority prior to the development commencing. The lighting shall be installed and available for use prior to first occupation of the site.

Reason: To protect the visual amenities of the site and its surrounding area and to enhance the security of shared parking areas.
14) The permission shall extend only to the application as amended by plans received on 18 October 2005 and 16 December 2005.

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.
15) 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 enlargement, improvement or other alteration of the dwellinghouses hereby permitted under Classes A, B, C or E of Part 1 of Schendule 2 without the prior granting of planning permission by the Local Planning Authority to an application for planning permission on that behalf.

Reason: To protect the amenities of occupiers of neighbouring properties.
16) Prior to commencement of the development hereby approved details of the arrangements for the siting of refuse bins shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

Reason: To ensure that satisfactory arrangements have been made for the storage of refuse bins.
17) Details of a scheme of archaeological investigation of the site shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority before the development hereby approved is commenced. The said development shall only be implemented in accordance with the scheme thereby approved.

Reason: To safeguard any material of archaeological interest which exists on the site in accordance with the provisions of Policy BE20 of the Mid Bedfordshire Local Plan.
18) The details of the landscaping of the site required to be submitted shall include details of a scheme for the preservation or laying out of that part of the application site shown on the approved plan as amenity land. That land shall be laid out in accordance with the details thereby approved prior to the occupation of any of the approved dwellings, or in accordance with a timescale otherwise agreed in writing with the Local Planning Authority.

Reason: To provide satisfactory open space to serve the development.
19) The dwellings hereby approved shall incorporate access for disabled persons into the construction of each unit.

Reason: To provide adequate access to mobility impaired persons.
20) The first floor bathroom and landing windows in the rear elevation of unit 3 of the development shall be fitted with obscured glass of a type to substantially restrict vision through them at all times and restriction on their opening, details both of which shall be submitted to and agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority prior to the development commencing on site.

Reason: To safeguard the amenities of occupiers of adjoining properties.
21) Details of the method and amount (litres per second) of surface water discharge shall be submitted to and agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority including any land drainage system, before the development is commenced. Thereafter no part of the development shall be brought into use until the approved drainage scheme has been implemented.

Reason: To ensure that satisfactory surface water drainage is provided and that existing and future land drainage needs are protected, in accordance with the request of the Internal drainage Board.


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