| Conditions or Reasons: | 6)
The new Teaching Block and SEND Block hereby permitted shall not be occupied until an implementation timetable for all hard and soft landscaping, and a five-year Landscape Maintenance and Management Plan from the date of its implementation have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The scheme shall include details of the management body, who will be responsible for delivering the approved landscape maintenance and management plan. All landscaping shall be implemented in accordance with the approved timetable and shall be maintained and managed in accordance with the approved maintenance and management plan following its implementation.
Reason: To ensure a satisfactory standard of development and to safeguard the future landscaping proposals on site. |
8)
No construction of the all-weather Multi-Use Games Area (MUGA) hereby consented shall take place until a scheme for protecting the nearest residential properties in Brindley Close, Havelock Close and Kestrel Way from noise arising from its use has been submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority. The scheme shall follow the recommendations identified in the Adrian James Acoustics Ltd Technical Noise Report (Ref: 13098a Report 2) dated 23rd March 2022 and give appropriate consideration to the design, construction and management of use of the facility, which shall be constructed only in accordance with the approved scheme, and the details of the scheme shall be retained thereafter.
Reason: To protect the amenity of neighbouring residential occupiers. |
13)
Prior to the installation of any floodlights hereby permitted to serve the all-weather Multi-Use Games Area, static monitoring and transect surveys related to the Bat Foraging and Commuting Assessment shall be carried out in accordance with both the Bat Conservation Trust guidance (2016) and with the letter of methodology and programme of work from Geospehere Environmental dated 23 September 2022 (ref: 6679,EC,Ltr001,Bat,AC,23-09-2022). The results of the surveys and any recommended mitigation measures shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority before the floodlights are first used.
Reason: To ensure development is ecologically sensitive in accordance with Policy EE2 of the Central Bedfordshire Local Plan (2021) and the National Planning Policy Framework (2021). |
15)
Prior to first use of the new Teaching Block and SEND Block hereby permitted, a scheme for the charging of electric and ultra-low emission vehicles shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The scheme shall accord with Policy T5 of CBLP and the Council's Adopted Supplementary Planning Document Electric Vehicle Charging: Guidance for New Developments and shall include the following:
Details of active charging posts or passive provision such as cabling and electricity supply for each space
Timescales / triggers for implementation of the scheme.
The development shall be completed in accordance with these approved details including the agreed timescales / triggers.
Reason: To assist with the transition to low-emission vehicles in line with Policy T5 of the CBLP and paragraph 110 of the National Planning Policy Framework (2021) |
17)
Before the Teaching Block and SEND Block hereby permitted are first brought into use, an updated Travel Plan shall be prepared, submitted and approved by the Local Planning Authority. The Plan shall contain details of:
a. plans for the establishment of a working group involving the School, parents and representatives of the local community
b. pupil travel patterns and barriers to sustainable travel
c. measures to encourage and promote sustainable travel and transport for journeys to and from School
d. an action plan detailing targets
e. a timetable for implementing appropriate measures and plans for annual monitoring and review
f. measures to manage the car parking on site
All measures agreed therein shall be undertaken in accordance with the approved Plan. There shall be an annual review of the Travel Plan (for a period of 5 years from the date of approval) to monitor progress in meeting the targets for reducing car journeys generated by the proposal and this shall be submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority.
Reason: In the interests of highway safety, to reduce congestion and to promote the use of sustainable modes of transport |
22)
Details of a scheme of the following highway improvements shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority and the approved scheme of highway improvements implemented prior to the increase in pupils:
The footway outside the frontage of the school entrance on Medusa Way (within land either within public highway or the applicant's ownership), shall be resurfaced to tarmac or similar, and widened from the car park entrance as far as the access road to the leisure centre so that it is a consistent width with the footway that runs along the front of the school. Lamp columns and signs / posts should be relocated to the verge behind.
A dropped kerb should be provided onto the carriageway to allow cyclists to access Medusa Way from the end of the pedestrian/cyclist path at the northern access.
The existing access should be altered to provide informal pedestrian dropped kerbs and tactile paving either side of the access.
The uncontrolled pedestrian access at Engayne Avenue with St Neots Road should be widened and have tactile paving.
Reason: To provide ease of safe pedestrian access at peak times when pupils are entering/exiting the school and for safe pedestrian access on the public highway. |
24)
Prior to the first occupation of the expansion hereby permitted, full details of the improvement scheme at the junction of Engayne Avenue with St. Neots Road, shown indicatively on plan ref. IT2323/SK/02 shall be submitted to, and approved in writing by, the Local Planning Authority. These plans should be at a level of detail to allow for technical approval to be granted by the Council in its capacity as Highway Authority and include:
Relevant Safety Audits
Street Lighting
Drainage
Signing and Lining
Any cutting back of overhanging foliage required
Consideration of a TRO to control parking on the northern arm of the junction, from the southern boundary of no. 103 to the northern boundary of 105 St. Neots Road.
Reason: For the avoidance of doubt and to secure the safe operation of the highway network. |
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