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Conditions or Reasons for Planning Application - CB/21/04729/PAAD

Conditions or Reasons:

1) Insufficient information has been provided by the applicant to enable an accurate assessment to be made of the highway safety/traffic impact implications of the development. The proposed development, if permitted, would result in the intensification of use of a substandard access at the junction with the C107 which makes no provision for adequate driver/driver intervisibility and will lead to conditions of danger and inconvenience to users of the highway and the property. The application therefore fails the test at paragraph Q.2(1)(a) of Part 3, Schedule 2 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development Order 2015.

2) The proposed development if permitted would result in the intensification of use of Wood End Lane which is a shared carriageway with pedestrians, cyclists and possible equestrian users with substandard forward visibility at points along its length and will lead to conditions of danger and inconvenience to users of the highway and the properties. Visibility splays would need to be in land under the applicants control and/or the public highway and not through third party land. No evidence has been provided to demonstrate that visibility can be achieved within land in the applicants ownership. The application therefore fails the test at paragraph Q.2(1)(a) of Part 3, Schedule 2 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development Order 2015.

3) Insufficient evidence has been submitted to address any noise from commercial premises likely to impact on the site. The application therefore fails the test at paragraph Q.2(1)(b) of Part 3, Schedule 2 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development Order 2015.

4) Insufficient evidence has been submitted to demonstrate that the proposed development will not cause a contamination risk upon the application site. The application therefore fails the test at paragraph Q.2(1)(c) of Part 3, Schedule 2 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development Order 2015.

5) Due to the failure to comply with (a), (b) and (c), the LAP considers that it would not be desirable to approve residential occupation in the proposed location that would result in health risk, potential adverse noise impacts and the potential for contamination (due to the historical use of the site) and detrimental highway safety implications and thus poor living standards for the future occupiers. The site is surrounded by business uses on the west and south sides and hard standing in which vehicle traffic is likley to use as a turning area directly in front of the proposed application site. In addition one, agricutural building to the northwest would also be retained which would be in close proximity to the residential conversion. Taken together, it is considered that the location and siting of the barn conversion would make the building undesirable for the building to change use. he application therefore fails the test at paragraph Q.2(1)(e) of Part 3, Schedule 2 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development Order 2015.

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