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Conditions or Reasons for Planning Application - CB/13/01850/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) 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;
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.

3) The scheme approved in Condition 2 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.

4) A scheme shall be submitted for written approval by the Local Planning Authority indicating the positions, design, materials and type of
boundary treatment to be erected. The boundary treatment shall be completed in accordance with the approved scheme

before the use hereby permitted is commenced
before the building(s) is/are occupied
in accordance with a timescale agreed in writing with the Local Planning Authority.

Reason: To safeguard the appearance of the completed development and the visual amenities of the locality.

5) Details of materials to be used for the external finishes of the development hereby approved shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority and the development shall be carried out in accordance therewith.

Reason: To safeguard the appearance of the completed development by ensuring that the development hereby permitted is finished externally with materials to match/complement the existing building(s) and the visual amenities of the locality.

6) 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 exceeding a height of 1.0m above the adjoining carriagewy 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 that is likely to use it.

7) Development shall not begin until details of the junction of the proposed vehicular access with the highway have been approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority and no part of the development hereby permitted shall commence until the junction has been constructed in accordance with the approved details.

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

8) Before the access is first brought into use a triangular vision splay shall be provided on each side of the new access and shall be 2.8m measured along the back edge of the highway from the centre line of the anticipated vehicle path to a point 2.0m measured from the back edge of the footway into the site along the centre lines of the anticipated vehicle path. The vision splays so described shall be maintained free of any obstruction to visibility exceeding a height of 600mm above the adjoining cariageway at all times.

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.

9) The development hereby permitted shall not be carried out except in complete accordance with the details shown on the submitted plans, numbers CBC01 and STE/01/P/sk/A/12/C

Reason: For the avoidance of doubt.

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