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Conditions or Reasons for Planning Application - CB/22/02353/DOC

Conditions or Reasons:

7) Details of the widening of the proposed vehicular access with the highway to create an access width of 4.8m for the first 8m measured into the site from the edge of carriageway shall be submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority and the dwelling shall not be occupied 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. (Section 9 NPPF)

9) Visibility splays shall be provided at the junction of the access with the public highway before the new development is brought into use. The minimum dimensions to provide the required splay lines shall be 2.4m, measured along the centre line of the access from its junction with the channel of the public highway and 43m measured in a northerly direction and 60m in a southerly direction, from the centre line of the vehicle access along the line of the channel of the public highway. The required vision splays shall for the perpetuity of the development remain free of any overhanging vegetation on the public highway.

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.
(Section 9 NPPF).

10) Any gates provided shall open away from the highway and be set back a minimum distance of at 8.0m from the nearside edge of the carriageway of the adjoining highway.

Reason: To enable vehicles to draw off the highway before the gates are opened. (Section 9 NPPF).

13) Details of a turning area, complete with tracking diagrams, for a light goods service vehicle (6.25m length, 2.14m in width) within the curtilage of the development shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The turning area shall be constructed in accordance with the approved details before the new development is occupied and retained in perpetuity.

Reason: To enable service vehicles to draw off, park and turn outside of the highway limits thereby avoiding the reversing of vehicles on to the highway.(Section 9 NPPF)

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