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Conditions or Reasons for Planning Application - SB/01/00134/FULL
Conditions or Reasons:
1) 1. Before development begins, the approval of the District Planning Authority shall be obtained in respect of all of the reserved matters, namely the siting, design, external appearance, means of access, and landscaping of the site. REASON: To comply with Article 3(1) of the Town and Country Planning (General Development Procedure) Order 1995. 2. a. Application for the approval of the reserved matters shall be made to the District Planning Authority within three years from the date of this permission; b. The development shall begin not later than whichever is the later of the following dates: i. five years from the date of this permission, or ii. two years from the final approval of the reserved matters or, if approved on different dates, the final approval of the last such matter to be approved. REASON: To comply with Section 92 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990. 3. This permission shall extend to the erection of a bungalow or chalet style bungalow only. REASON: To safeguard the amenity of adjoining residential properties. 4. The existing trees and hedgerows shall be retained and protected for the duration of the development in a manner to be approved in writing by the District Planning Authority and shall not be destroyed, uprooted, felled, lopped or topped during that period without the previous written consent of the District Planning Authority. Any trees or hedgerows removed without such consent or dying or being severely damaged or becoming seriously diseased during that period shall be replaced by trees or hedgerow specimens of such size and species as may be agreed with the District Planning Authority. Such trees or hedgerow specimens shall subsequently be maintained for a period of five years from maintained for a period of five years from the date of planting and any which die or are destroyed during this period shall be replaced during the next planting season and maintained until satisfactorily established. REASON: To comply with Section 197 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 and to safeguard existing trees on site. (Policies 8, 10, B.S.P; NE6, BE11, S.B.L.P; NE4, BE8, S.B.L.P.F.R.D.). 5. The trees to be felled shall be replaced by new trees, the size, position and species of which shall be approved in writing by the District Planning Authority. The trees shall be planted by a date not later than the end of the full planting season immediately following the removal of the trees and shall be maintained until satisfactorily established (a full planting season shall mean the period from October to March). REASON: To ensure the planting of replacement trees in the interests of visual amenity. (Policies 8, 10, B.S.P, NE6, BE11, S.B.L.P, NE4, BE8, S.B.L.P.F.R.D.). 6. Notwithstanding the provisions of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995 (or any order revoking and re-enacting that Order), any garage, car port or parking space hereby permitted shall be kept permanently available for the parking of motor vehicles. REASON: To ensure that off-street parking is retained in the interests of highway safety. (Policies 42, B.S.P; T13, S.B.L.P; T14, S.B.L.P.F.R.D.). 7. This permission does not extend to the sketch layout and/or elevations submitted with the application. REASON: To avoid doubt. (Policies 10, B.S.P; BE11,H9, S.B.L.P; BE8, S.B.L.P.F.R.D.). 8. Before development begins, details of the levels of the proposed dwelling shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the District Planning Authority, and development shall thereafter be implemented accordingly. REASON: To produce a satisfactory relationship between the various elements of the scheme and adjacent properties. (Policies 10, B.S.P; BE11, S.B.L.P; BE8, S.B.L.P.F.R.D.). 9. Before development begins, the position of the proposed dwelling shall be pegged out on site and its position approved in writing by the District Planning Authority. REASON: To enable consideration to be given to the precise layout of the development. (Policies 10, B.S.P; BE11, S.B.L.P; BE8, S.B.L.P.F.R.D.). 10. Before development begins, details of the proposed method of foul and surface water drainage for the site shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the District Planning Authority. The drainage works as approved shall be constructed in accordance with the approved details before the development is first occupied or brought into use. REASON: To ensure satisfactory drainage of the site. (Policies 3, B.S.P, IS4, IS5, S.B.L.P, IS4, IS5, S.B.L.P.F.R.D.). 11. Before development begins, details of the junction of the proposed vehicular access with the highway shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the District Planning Authority. No building shall be occupied until the junction has been constructed in accordance with the approved details. REASON: To minimise danger, obstruction and inconvenience to users of the highway and of the premises. (Policies T4, S.B.L.P, T1, S.B.L.P.F.R.D.). 12. Before the access is brought into use, a triangular vision splay shall be provided on each side of it measuring 1.8m along the fence, wall, hedge or other means of definition of the front boundary of the site, and 1.8m into the site at right angles to the same line along the side of the new access drive. The vision splays so provided and on land under the applicant's control shall be kept free of any obstruction to visibility exceeding a height of 600mm above the adjoining footway level. REASON: To provide adequate visibility between the existing highway and the proposed access(es) and to make the access(es) safe and convenient for the traffic which is likely to use it/them. (Policies T4, S.B.L.P, T1, S.B.L.P.F.R.D.). 13. The detailed layout plans to be submitted for approval of reserved matters in connection with this development shall show a vehicular turning area to be constructed within the curtilage of all premises taking access directly from the public highway and these shall thereafter be retained for this purpose. REASON: To enable vehicles to draw off, park and turn outside the highway limits thereby avoiding the reversing of vehicles onto or from the highway. (Policies 42, B.S.P, T4, T13, S.B.L.P, T1, TI4, S.B.L.P.F.R.D.). 14. Before the development is first occupied or brought into use, all on site vehicular areas shall be surfaced in accordance with details to be submitted to and approved in writing by the District Planning Authority so as to ensure satisfactory parking of vehicles outside highway limits. Arrangements shall be made for surface water from the site to be intercepted and disposed of separately so that it does not discharge into the highway. REASON: To minimise danger, obstruction and inconvenience to users of the highway and of the premises. (Policies 42, B.S.P, T13, S.B.L.P, TI4, S.B.L.P.F.R.D.). 15. This permission relates only to the details shown on the Site Location Plan received 18/07/01 or to any subsequent appropriately endorsed revised plan. REASON: To identify the approved plan and to avoid doubt. INFORMATIVES ------------ 1. No works associated with the construction of the vehicular access should be carried out within the confines of the public highway without the prior consent, in writing, of the Development Planning and Control Group, Department of Environment and Economic Development, Bedfordshire County Council, County Hall, Bedford, MK42 9AP. If any of the works associated with the construction of the vehicular access affects or requires the removal and/or the relocation of any equipment, apparatus, or structures (e.g. street name plates, bus stops, signs or shelters, statutory equipment etc.) then the applicant will be required to bear the cost of such removal or alteration. 2. The requirements of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 will apply to any works undertaken within the limits of the existing public highway. Further details can be obtained from the Senior Engineer (Services), Network Maintenance Group, Highways and Transport Division, Department of Environment and Economic Development, Bedfordshire County Council, County Hall, Bedford, MK42 9AP. 3. Photographs of the existing highway that is to be used for access and delivery of materials will be required by the Local Highway Authority. Any subsequent damage to the public highway resulting from the works as shown by the photographs, including damage caused by delivery vehicles to the works, will be made good to the satisfaction of the Local Highway Authority and at the expense of the applicant. Attention is drawn to Section 59 of the Highways Act 1980 in this respect. 4. Any culverting or works affecting the flow of a watercourse requires the prior written consent of the Environment Agency under the terms of the Land Drainage Act 1991/Water Resources Act 1991. The Environment Agency seeks to avoid culverting, and its consent for such works will not normally be granted except as a means of access. 5. The applicant/developer is advised that the Council is aware that part of the site is known to flood. This should be bourne in mind in the preparation of details to be submitted in connection with the requirements of Condition 8. NOTE ---- In accordance with the Town and Country Planning (General Development Procedure) (England) (Amendment) Order 2000, the reason for any condition above relates to the Policies as referred to in the Bedfordshire Structure Plan 2011 (B.S.P.), South Bedfordshire Local Plan (S.B.L.P.) and South Bedfordshire Local Plan First Review Deposit (and Proposed Pre-Inquiry Changes) (S.B.L.P.F.R.D.)


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