| Conditions or Reasons: | 1)
No caravan located on the Site shall be occupied for residential purposes by persons other than Gypsies and Travellers, as defined in annexe 1 of Planning Policy for Traveller Sites 2024.
Reason: To ensure that the occupation of the residential caravans on the site is restricted to Gypsies and Travellers only, given the location of the site in the Green Belt and the case that has justified the development.
(Section 13, National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) (December 2024); Planning policy for traveller sites (December 2024); and Policy SP4, Central Bedfordshire Council Local Plan, (CBCLP), (July 2021)). |
2)
The three pitches hereby approved shall be retained as such hereafter and shall have no more than two caravans, as defined by the Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 and the Caravan Act 1968 as amended, stationed on each pitch at any one time of which no more than one shall be a static caravan.
Reason: To limit and define the number of pitches and number of caravans and to ensure all caravans meet the legal definition and in recognition of the location of the site outside of the Settlement Envelope and within the Green Belt, to control the visual amenities of the locality.
(Sections 12, 13 and 15 of the NPPF (2024), and the CBC Local Plan (2021), Policies SP7, SP4, EE5 and HQ1) |
3)
The use hereby permitted shall cease and all caravans, structures, equipment and materials brought onto the land for the purposes of such use shall be removed within 28 days of the date of failure to meet any one of the requirements set out in i) to iv) below:
i) Notwithstanding the details submitted, within 4 months of the date of this decision a site development scheme with details for:
(a) the internal layout of the site including the extent of the three residential pitches, the location of the caravans (reflective of actual scale), vehicle parking, vehicle turning areas, vehicle charging points/cabling, utility connections, siting of CCTV and the siting of the proposed buildings;
(b) a detailed foul drainage assessment and scheme which shall;
include a full detailed foul drainage drawing showing all connections, controls and storage, as well as details of any collection or discharge/ release arrangements;
include a connection to the public foul sewer unless it is demonstrated to the satisfaction of the Local Planning Authority that it is not reasonable to connect to the public sewer;
where a connection to the public foul sewer is not reasonable the scheme shall include a statement considering the following hierarchy of non-mains alternative solutions:
o package sewage treatment plants (which may be offered to the sewerage undertaker for adoption);
o septic tanks; and
o cesspool(s)
include a completed FDA1 form, or equivalent information;
if considered necessary by the Local Planning Authoritydetails shall be submitted to demonstrate how the requirement of Building Regulations Approved Document H will be met; and
details of the management and maintenance arrangements for the foul drainage system.
(c) a biodiversity enhancement strategy and landscaping scheme to include all hard and soft landscaping and a scheme for landscape maintenance for a period of 30 years, the scheme shall include:
the removal of existing hardstanding;
scaled plans detailing the location of replacement hardstanding and details of the materials with construction specification for all hardstanding (which shall be in full accordance with the surface water drainage scheme for the site)
details of all boundary treatments and all other means of enclosure, which shall be more sympathetic in design for the location;
the retention of existing trees and hedgerows;
a comprehensive planting scheme with screen planting including details of species, plant sizes and proposed numbers and densities (plant species shall visually screen the site, respect the landscape context of the site and contribute towards ecological enhancements); and a comprehensive biodiversity enhancement scheme, which shall detail the location and design of species specific enhancement measures, purpose and conservation objectives for any measures and a scheme for the maintenance and monitoring of the measures for a period of 30 years identifying persons responsible for implementing, monitoring and maintaining the scheme.
(hereafter referred to as the "SDS") shall have been submitted for the written approval of the local planning authority and the scheme shall include a timetable for its implementation.
ii) If within 11 months of the date of this decision the local planning authority refuse to approve the SDS or fail to give a decision within the prescribed period, an appeal shall have been made to, and accepted as validly made by, the Secretary of State.
iii) If an appeal is made in pursuance of ii) above, that appeal shall have been finally determined and the submitted scheme shall have been approved by the Secretary of State.
iv) The approved scheme shall have been carried out and completed in accordance with the approved timetable. Upon implementation of the approved SDS specified in this condition, the matters approved and implemented shall thereafter be maintained/ retained/remain in use.
In the event of a legal challenge to this decision, or to a decision made pursuant to the procedure set out in this condition, the operation of the time limits specified in this condition will be suspended until that legal challenge has been finally determined.
Reason: In order to ensure that the proposal takes account for the need for hard and soft landscaping and that the development has no adverse effect upon general or residential amenity in accordance with Policies HQ1, and EE5 of the CBLP (2021) and having particular regard to the location of the site in the Green Belt in accordance with Sections 12, 13 and 15 of the NPPF and Policies SP4 of the CBLP (2021). |
4)
Notwithstanding the provisions of Part 2 (Minor Operations) or Part 5 (Caravan Sites) of schedule 2 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) or any order revoking or reenacting that Order no walls, gates, fences or any other means of enclosure or any amenity or storage buildings or other structures shall be erected on the appeal site other than in accordance with the SDS approved in accordance with condition 3.
Reason: In order to ensure that the overall appearance of the development in the countryside and Green Belt has regard to the views into and over the site and that the development has no unacceptable adverse effect upon general or residential amenity.
(Sections Chapters 12, 13 and 15 of the NPPF (2024), and the CBC Local Plan (2021), Policies SP7, HQ1, SP4 and EE5). |
5)
No vehicles exceeding 3.5 tons in weight shall be kept on the site.
Reason: In order to ensure that the development has no unacceptable adverse effect upon general or residential amenity in accordance with Policy HQ1 of the CBLP (2021) and having regard to Sections 12 and 15 of the NPPF (2024). |
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