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Conditions or Reasons for Planning Application - CB/26/00176/VOC

Conditions or Reasons:

1) The development hereby permitted shall begin not later than three years from the date of the original planning permission CB/25/00049/FULL dated 09/10/2025.

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) The development hereby permitted shall not be carried out except in complete accordance with the details shown on the submitted plans, numbers OAKPL-34A, OAKPL-37.

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

3) All ecological measures and works shall be carried out strictly in accordance with the approved Ecological Enhancement Strategy (EES) documents Ecological Enhnacement Strategy 20.01.2026 and OAKPL-34B approved under CB/26/00177/DOC dated 03.02.2026 and shall be retained in that manner thereafter.
Reason: To ensure that works are ecologically sensitive and do not result in adverse impacts to protected species. (Section 15 of the NPPF)

4) The final ground and slab levels shall be in accordance with plan number OAKPL-34B approved under CB/25/00177/DOC dated 03.02.2026. Thereafter the site shall be developed in full accordance with the approved details.
Reason: To ensure that an acceptable relationship results between the new development and adjacent buildings.
(Section 12, NPPF)

5) The external material works be carried out strictly in accordance with the approved details '30 Flitton Road Material Schedule - 20.01.2026' approved under CB/26/00177/DOC dated 03.02.2026.

Reason: To control the appearance of the building in the interests of the visual amenities of the locality.
(Section 12, NPPF)

6) Prior to the occupation of any dwelling on the site, a scheme for the provision of waste receptacles for each dwelling shall be submitted to and agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The receptacles shall be provided before occupation takes place.

Reason: In the interest of residential amenity and to reduce waste generation in accordance with the Council's Minerals and Waste Local Plan 2014, Policy WSP5 and the adopted SPD "Managing Waste in New Developments" (2006).

7) Prior to the occupation of the dwelling details of the junction of the proposed vehicular access with the highway shall be submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority. The dwelling shall not be occupied until the junction has been constructed in accordance with the approved details.
Reason
In order to minimise danger, obstruction and inconvenience to users of the highway and the premises.

8) Prior to the occupation of the dwelling visibility splays shall be provided at the junction of the access with the public highway. The minimum dimensions to provide the required splay lines shall be 2.4 metres measured along the centre line of the proposed access from its junction with the channel of the public highway and 43.0 metres measured from the centre line of the proposed access along the line of the channel of the public highway. The required visibility splays shall remain free of any obstruction to visibility for the perpetuity of the development.
Reason
In order to minimise danger, obstruction and inconvenience to users of the highway and the premises.

9) Prior to the occupation of the dwelling details of a refuse collection point located at the site frontage and outside of the public highway and any visibility splays shall be submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority. The scheme shall be fully implemented prior to occupation of any dwelling and shall be retained thereafter.
Reason
In order to minimise danger, obstruction and inconvenience to users of the highway and the premises.

10) Prior to the occupation of the dwelling all ecological measures and/or works shall be carried out in accordance with the details contained in the October 2024 Preliminary Ecological Appraisal Report as already submitted with the planning application and agreed in principle with the Local Planning Authority prior to determination.

Reason: To ensure that works are ecologically sensitive and do not result in adverse impacts to protected species. (Section 15 of the NPPF)

11) Prior to the occupation of the dwelling details of the vehicular access, which will be surfaced in bituminous or other similar durable material (not loose aggregate) for a distance of 5.0m into the site, measured from the highway boundary, shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Arrangements shall be made for surface water drainage from the site to be intercepted and disposed of separately so that it does not discharge into the highway. The approved vehicular access surfacing and drainage shall be installed prior to the occupation of the dwelling.
Reason: To avoid the carriage of mud or other extraneous material or surface water from the site so as to safeguard the interest of highway safety and reduce the risk of flooding and to minimise inconvenience to users of the premises and ensure satisfactory parking of vehicles outside highway limits.

12) The maximum gradient of the vehicular access shall be 5% (1 in 20) for the first 6.0m measured into the site from the highway boundary and thereafter 1 in 10.
Reason: In the interests of road safety.

13) The dwelling shall not be occupied until a landscaping scheme to include all hard and soft landscaping and a scheme for landscape maintenance for a period of five years following the implementation of the landscaping scheme have been submitted to and approved in writing 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 trees, shrubs and grass shall subsequently be maintained in accordance with the approved landscape maintenance scheme and any which die or are destroyed during this period shall be replaced during the next planting season.
Reason: To ensure an acceptable standard of landscaping.
(Sections 12 & 15, NPPF)

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