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Conditions or Reasons for Planning Application - CB/25/02364/DOC
Conditions or Reasons:
20) No external lighting shall be erected or installed on any part of the site until details of a suitable lighting design scheme and impact assessment devised to eliminate any detrimental effect caused by obtrusive light from the development on neighbouring land use for that part of the site and ecological corridors, as well as minimise landscape visual impacts, has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The scheme shall be prepared by a suitably qualified lighting engineer in consultation with an Ecologist in accordance with relevant publications and standards. Only the details thereby approved for that part of the site shall be implemented.

If within a period of 12 months following the first use of the lighting columns the planning authority required the alignment of the light to be adjusted and or hoods or shields to be fitted, this shall be carried out in accordance with the agreed scheme within 7 days of official notification. The means of illumination shall thereafter be implemented only in accordance with the agreed scheme.

Reason: To protect the future neighbouring occupiers, the intrinsic character and beauty of the countryside and protected species from light pollution associated with the use of the business park, in accordance with Policies HQ1, EE2, EE3, EE5 and CC8 of the Central Bedfordshire Local Plan and the NPPF.
21) Prior to the installation of any fixed plant to any particular unit commencing, a scheme shall be submitted for approval to the Local Planning Authority to demonstrate that the rating level of sound emitted from any external fixed plant and/or machinery associated with the operational use of that unit shall not exceed the typical background sound level at any sound sensitive premises. All measurements shall be made in accordance with BS4142:2014 (as amended).

Reason: To protect the amenity of existing neighbouring residential occupiers, in accordance with Policies HQ1 and CC8 of the Central Bedfordshire Local Plan and the NPPF.


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