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Conditions or Reasons for Planning Application - CB/22/04651/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) All external works hereby permitted shall be carried out in materials as detailed on drawing no. RM 22 / 041.2 D, namely:

External walls: Olive green coloured profiled cladding
Roof: Olive green coloured profiled roof cladding
Windows and doors: White uPVC windows, polycarbonate rooflights & composite doors

Reason: To safeguard the appearance of the completed development by ensuring that the development hereby permitted is finished externally with materials to match the existing building in the interests of the visual amenities of the locality.
(Section 12, NPPF)
3) Noise resulting from the use of plant, machinery and equipment installed or operated in connection with this permission, shall be so enclosed, operated and/or attenuated so that noise arising from such shall not exceed a level of 5dBA below the existing background level when measured or calculated according to BS4142:2014, at the boundary of any sensitive receptor.

Reason: To safeguard the residential amenity which the occupiers of neighbouring properties might reasonably expect to enjoy.
(Section 12, NPPF)
4) No external lighting shall be installed on the northwest (rear) elevation of the building unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Any other external artificial lighting at the development shall not exceed lux levels of vertical illumination at neighbouring premises that are recommended by the Institution of Lighting Professionals in the 'Guidance Note 01/20: Guidance Notes for the Reduction of Obtrusive Light'. Lighting should be minimized, and glare and sky glow should be prevented by correctly using, locating, aiming and shielding luminaires, in accordance with the Guidance Notes. Lighting colour shall be warm in appearance and not exceeding a temperature of 3000 kelvin (K).

Reason: To protect the residential amenity of neighbouring properties.
(Section 12, NPPF)
5) Prior to commencement of works, confirmation of the appointment of a suitably qualified contaminated land practitioner(s), appointed to provide watching brief, shall be submitted to the Local Planning Authority for approval. The appointed person(s) shall be present from the commencement of demolition and ground works until completion of landscape and hardsurfaces. All works must be carried out in compliance with and by a competent person who conforms to Land Contamination Risk Assessment (LRCM) guides.

Reason: To ensure that risks from land contamination to the future users of the land and neighbouring land are minimised, together with those to controlled waters, property and ecological systems, and to ensure that the development can be carried out safely without unacceptable risks to workers, neighbours and other offsite receptors.
(Section 15, NPPF)
6) Following completion of remediation works as required and to be agreed with the Local Planning Authority, the developer should submit a Verification Report to the Local Planning Authority for approval. The Verification Report should provide confirmation that all measures outlined in the approved Remediation Strategy have been completed including where appropriate validation testing. All works must be carried out in compliance with and by a competent person who conforms to Land Contamination Risk Assessment (LRCM) guides.

Reason: To ensure that the site is suitable for its end use and to protect human health and the water environment.
(Section 15, NPPF)
7) Notwithstanding the details submitted on drawing no. 22 / 041.2 A, no development shall take place until a landscaping scheme to include fastigiate trees of advanced nursery stock to be closely spaced to maximise their potential screening value, as well as a scheme for landscape maintenance for a period of five years following the implementation of the landscaping scheme has been submitted to and approved 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 approved landscaping shall subsequently be maintained in accordance with the approved landscape maintenance scheme and any trees which die or are destroyed during this period shall be replaced during the next planting season.

Reason: To ensure an acceptable standard of landscaping and to screen the development from adjacent residential properties.
(Sections 12 & 15, NPPF)
8) Development shall not begin until details of a new footway to be constructed on the western side of Billington Road, between the site access and the signalised junction with Theedway / Kestrel Way, have been submitted to, and approved in writing by, the Local Planning Authority. The footway shall be a consistent two metres wide, reducing to no less than 1.5 metres where there may be constraints that reasonably preclude two metres.

Reason: In the interests of road safety and encouraging sustainable modes of travel.
9) No building shall be occupied until the footway as detailed within the approved plans to be agreed in condition 8 has been constructed in accordance with the approved details, amended as necessary by the technical and safety audit process, and opened for public use. Any Statutory Undertakers equipment or street furniture shall be re-sited to provide an unobstructed footway (See Notes to the Applicant).

Reason: In the interests of road safety and encouraging sustainable modes of travel.
10) No development hereby approved shall be occupied until the parking and vehicle turning areas shown on plan 22/041.1B has been provided and surfaced in tarmacadam or similar durable, porous but bound material in accordance with details to be approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The finished area shall be maintained thereafter for no other purposes for the perpetuity of the development.

Reason: To ensure adequate provision of on-site vehicle parking and manoeuvring areas in the interests of highway safety.
11) Before development begins, a scheme for the secure and covered parking of cycles on the site shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The scheme shall be fully implemented before the development is first occupied or brought into use and thereafter retained for this purpose (See Notes to the Applicant).

Reason: To ensure the provision of adequate cycle parking to meet the needs of occupiers of the proposed development in the interests of encouraging the use of sustainable modes of transport.
12) No development shall take place until a scheme has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority for the provision of fire hydrants at the development. Prior to the first occupation of the dwelling(s) the fire hydrant(s) serving that development shall be installed as approved. Thereafter the fire hydrant(s) shall be retained as approved in perpetuity.

Reason: In the interests of fire safety and providing safe and accessible developments.
(Section 7, NPPF)
13) 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)
14) The development hereby permitted shall not be carried out except in complete accordance with the details shown on the submitted plans, numbers RM 22 / 041.2 D, RM 22 / 041.1 D.

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


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