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Conditions or Reasons for Planning Application - CB/20/03035/FULL
Conditions or Reasons:
1) The development hereby permitted shall begin not later than three years from the date of this permission.

Reason: To comply with Section 91 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 as amended by Section 51 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004.
2) No above ground building work shall take place until details of the materials to be used for the external walls and roofs of the development hereby approved have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The development shall thereafter be carried out in accordance with the approved details.

Reason: To control the appearance of the building in the interests of the visual amenities of the locality.
(Section 12, NPPF)
3) No above ground building work shall take place until a landscaping scheme to include all hard and soft landscaping and a scheme for landscape maintenance for a period of five years following the implementation of the landscaping scheme have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The approved scheme shall be implemented by the end of the full planting season immediately following the completion and/or first use of any separate part of the development (a full planting season means the period from October to March). The trees, shrubs and grass shall subsequently be maintained in accordance with the approved landscape maintenance scheme and any which die or are destroyed during this period shall be replaced during the next planting season.

Reason: To ensure an acceptable standard of landscaping.
(Sections 12 & 15, NPPF)
4) No development hereby permitted shall take place except in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Council's organisational licence (WML-OR24-2020-1) and with the proposals detailed on plan '40 High Street Southill: Impact Plan for great crested newt district licensing', dated 10th November 2020.

Reason: This condition is pre-commencment in order to ensure that adverse impacts on great crested newts are adequately mitigated and to ensure that site works are delivered in full compliance with the organisational licence WML-OR24- 2020-1.
5) No development hereby permitted shall take place unless and until a certificate from the Delivery Partner (as set out in the District Licence WML-OR24-2020-1), confirming that all necessary measures in regard to great crested newt compensation have been appropriately dealt with, has been submitted to and approved by the local planning authority and the local authority has provided authorisation for the development to proceed under the district newt licence.

The Delivery Partner certificate must be submitted to this planning authority for approval prior to the commencement of the development hereby approved.

Reason: This condition is pre-commencment in order to adequately compensate for negative impacts to great crested newts.
6) No development hereby permitted shall take place except in accordance with Part 1 of the GCN Mitigation Principles, as set out in the District Licence WML-OR24-2020-1 and in addition in compliance with the following:

- Works which will affect likely newt hibernacula may only be undertaken during the active period for amphibians.

- Capture methods must be used at suitable habitat features prior to the commencement of the development (i.e. hand/destructive/night searches), which may include the use of temporary amphibian fencing, to prevent newts moving onto a development site from adjacent suitable habitat, installed for the period of the development (and removed upon completion of the development).

Reason: This condition is pre-commencment in order to adequately mitigate impacts on great crested newts.
7) The development hereby permitted shall be undertaken in full accordance with the Councils adopted Environmental Code of Practice https://www.centralbedfordshire.gov.uk/info/44/planning/674/codes_of_practice_for_planning/3

Reason: In order to minimise the impact of development on existing trees, landscape features and biodiversity (Section 15, NPPF)
8) All works detailed within Cherryfield Ecology - Ecological Enhancement Stategy dated 23/10/20 shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details prior to the occupation of either of the approved dwelling houses plots 2 and 3.

Reason: To ensure existing or new habitats affected by development are managed effectively over an established period.
(Section 15, NPPF)
9) Works on buildings B1/B2 as detailed in the 2020 Bat report shall not in any circumstances commence unless the local planning authority has been provided with either:

a) a licence issued by Natural England authorising the specified activity/development to go ahead; or
b) a statement in writing from the relevant licensing body to the effect that it does not consider that the specified activity/development will require a licence.

Reason: To ensure the works are carried out appropriately in terms of protected spices.
10) The development hereby permitted shall be undertaken in full accordance with the Councils adopted Construction Code of Practice for Developers and Contractors https://www.centralbedfordshire.gov.uk/info/44/planning/674/codes_of_practice_for_planning.

Reason: In order to minimise the impact of construction work on the amenities of nearby residential properties (Section 12, NPPF)
11) No building shall be occupied until the widened junction of the proposed vehicular access with the highway has been constructed in accordance with the approved details including the provision of 2.4m x 43.0m visibility splays, clear of all obstruction, have been implemented. The visibility splays shall remain free of obstruction for the perpetuity of the development.

Reason: To ensure the provision of appropriate access arrangements and associated off site highway works in the interest of highway safety
12) The access shall have a minimum width of 4.8m clear of obstruction for at least 8.0m into the site measured from the nearside kerbline.

Reason: In the interest of road safety and for the avoidance of doubt.
13) The proposed vehicular areas shall be surfaced in accordance with the approved plan. Details of the arrangements to 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 shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority and the approved details shall be implemented prior to the development being brought into use

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.
14) Any gates provided shall open away from the highway and be set back a distance of at least 8.0 metres from the nearside edge of the carriageway of the adjoining highway. The gates shall remain free of obstruction to opening to any vehicles, including service/delivery vehicles using the site and turning area

Reason: To enable vehicles to draw off the highway before the gates are opened, to enter the site, turn and leave in forward gear
15) Before the new access is first brought into use, the existing access taken from Chapel Lane shall be closed in a manner to the Local Planning Authority's written approval and constructed in accordance with the approved details.
(See Notes to the Applicant)

Reason: In the interest of road safety and to reduce the number of points at which traffic will enter and leave the public highway.
16) Details shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority of the on site parking layout for the proposal, including tracking diagrams for a fire engine, the approved details shall be implemented prior to the development being brought into use. Thereafter the parking provision and turning area shall be retained for the use of parking provision and turning area unless otherwise agreed in writing by the local planning authority.

Reason: For the avoidance of doubt and the provision of workable and adequate parking manoeuvring and turning provision within the site
17) Prior to the construction of vehicular parking areas associated with the approved dwellinghouses (plots 2 and 3), a scheme for the charging of electric vehicles shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Subsequently, the development shall be completed in accordance with these approved details.

Reason: To assist with the transition to low-emission vehicles in line with paragraph 110 of the National Planning Policy Framework (2019)
18) Details of a refuse collection point located at the site frontage and outside of the public highway and any visibility splays, and no further than 10.0m drag distance from the furthest bin to the back of the waiting refuse vehicle, shall be submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority prior to the occupation of any dwelling. The scheme shall be fully implemented prior to occupation of any dwelling and shall be retained thereafter.

Reason: In the interest of amenity and in order to minimise danger, obstruction and inconvenience to users of the highway and the premises.
19) Any boundary planting shall be set back 1.0m into the site measured from the highway boundary and/or visibility splay.

Reason: In the interest of amenity and in order to minimise danger, obstruction and inconvenience to users of the highway and the premises.
20) The development hereby permitted shall not be carried out except in complete accordance with the details shown on the submitted plans, numbers E1650 001-F, E1650 002-B, E1650 006-0, E1650 007-0, E1650 013-C, E1650 014-D, E1650 015-D, E1650 020-A, E1650 021-A, E1650 030-0.

Reason: To identify the approved plan/s and to avoid doubt.


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