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Conditions or Reasons for Planning Application - CB/11/03702/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) Prior to commencement a scheme shall be submitted for written approval by the Local Planning Authority setting out the details of the materials to be used for the external walls and roof. The development shall be carried out in accordance with the approved scheme.

Reason: To protect the visual amenities of the building and of the area generally.
3) Prior to the first occupation of the building the first floor windows in the north and south facing elevations of the development hereby permitted shall be fitted with obscured glass of a type to substantially restrict vision through it at all times. No further windows or other openings shall be formed in the elevation.

Reason: To safeguard the amenities of occupiers of adjoining properties.
4) Prior to commencement of the development full details of both hard and soft landscaping shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. These details shall include:-

proposed finished levels or contours;
materials to be used for any hard surfacing;
minor structures (e.g. furniture, play equipment, signs, etc);
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;
details of existing trees and hedgerows on the site, indicating those to be retained and the method of their protection during development works.

The development shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details.

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.
5) All planting, seeding or turfing comprised in the approved details of landscaping shall be carried out in the first planting and seeding seasons following the occupation of the buildings or the completion of the development whichever is the sooner; and any trees or plants which within a period of 5 years of completion of the development die, are removed or become seriously damaged or diseased shall be replaced in the next planting season with others of similar size and species unless the Local Planning Authority give written consent to any variation.

Reason: In the interests of the visual amenities of the site and the area generally.
6) Prior to the commencement of development a scheme setting out measures for protecting the tree subject to the Tree Preservation Order in the north western corner of the site during construction work shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Details shall be submitted to protect the roots of this tree during the construction of the additional access into the site. No work shall commence on site until the tree to be protected is fenced with 2.3 high weldmesh fencing securely mounted on standard scaffolding poles driven firmly in the ground in accordance with
BS 5837:2005;
for trees and shrubs the fencing shall follow a line 1.0m outside the furthest extent of the crown spread, unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority;
for upright growing trees at a radius from the trunk not less than 6.0m, or two thirds of the height of the tree whichever is the greater;
for other natural features along a line to be approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.
Such fencing shall be maintained during the course of the works on the site. No unauthorised access or placement of goods, fuels or chemicals, soil or other materials shall take place inside the fenced area.

Reason: To safeguard the existing trees on the site in the interests of visual amenity.
7) Before the access is brought into use an area of land across the whole of the site frontage measuring at least 2.4m from and parallel to the nearside edge of the adjacent road carriageway shall be provided and thereafter be kept free of all obstruction to visibility.

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) The proposed vehicular accesses 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 5 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.
9) Before development commences a scheme for the parking of cycles on the site shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The scheme shall be fully implemented before the development is first occupied or brought into use and thereafter retained for this purpose.

Reason: To ensure the provision of adequate cycle parking to meet the needs of occupiers of the proposed development in the interests of encouraging the use of sustainable modes of transport.
10) The development hereby permitted shall not be carried out except in complete accordance with the details shown on the submitted plans, numbers 1124/P/01, 1124/P/02/A, 1124/P/03/A, 1124/P/04A.

Reason: For the avoidance of doubt.


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