Agenda item

5g.

ITEM 5g – 21/00090/RET - Use and extend the original walls, and use the original foundation slab, of the former garage and car port to create on the same site a two storey hipped roofed end of terrace dwelling; change of use from agriculture to front hardstanding and rear garden. –

Gable End 1 Threefields Sheethanger Lane Felden Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire

The Case Officer, Philip Stanley introduced the report to Members and said that the application had been referred to the Committee in accordance with the authorisation given by Members in the Part II decision at DMC on 05.11.20”.

Councillor Woolner declared an interested in item 5g as the applicants are known to her, she took no part in voting.

It was proposed by Councillor Riddick and seconded by Councillor C Wyatt-Lowe That planning permission be GRANTED.

Vote:

For:     10       Against:          1         Abstained: 1

Resolved: That planning permission be GRANTEDsubject to the following conditions.

Condition(s) and Reason(s):

 1.        The current gable end roof to Gable End shall be hipped in accordance with Drawing 9407-L-00-03 Rev.C within eighteen months of the date of this decision.

            REASON: In the interest of the openness of the Green Belt in accordance with Policy CS5 of the Dacorum Borough Core Strategy and also in the context of the extant Enforcement Notice at the site.

 2.        All exterior window frames shall be painted black within six months of the date of this decision. The windows, whether the existing windows or any future windows, shall thereafter permanently retain this black colour.

            REASON: In the interest of the openness of the Green Belt in accordance with Policy CS5 of the Dacorum Borough Core Strategy and also in the context of the extant Enforcement Notice at the site.

 3.        Within three months of the date of this decision the new 1.2 metre high post and rail fencing, shown on approved Drawing 9407-L-00-04 Rev.C (Block Plan) shall be erected; and thereafter a fence of the same height, design and location shall be permanently retained.

            REASON: In the interest of the openness of the Green Belt in accordance with Policy CS5 of the Dacorum Borough Core Strategy and also in the context of the extant Enforcement Notice at the site.

 4.        The area shown to the west of the new fencing, shown on approved Drawing 9407-L-00-04 Rev.C (Block Plan), shall not be used for any residential purposes, including any residential uses ancillary to the property known as Gable End, Threefields, Sheethanger Lane.

            REASON: In the interest of the openness of the Green Belt in accordance with Policy CS5 of the Dacorum Borough Core Strategy and also in the context of the extant Enforcement Notice at the site.

 5.        The alterations to the site frontage hard landscaping, and the planting of the soft landscaping, shown on approved Drawing 9407-L-00-04 Rev.C (Block Plan), must be carried out within twelve months of the date of this decision.

            The areas immediately to the north, east and south of the three parking spaces shown on Drawing 9407-L-00-04 Rev.C (Block Plan) shall thereafter remain soft landscaped and shall not be used for the purposes of the parking of vehicles.

            Any tree or shrub which forms part of the approved landscaping scheme which within a period of 5 years from planting fails to become established, becomes seriously damaged or diseased, dies or for any reason is removed shall be replaced in the next planting season by a tree or shrub of a species, size and maturity.

            Reason:  In the interest of the openness of the Green Belt in accordance with Policy CS5 of the Dacorum Borough Core Strategy and also in the context of the extant Enforcement Notice at the site.

6.         Notwithstanding the provisions of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015 (or any Order amending or re-enacting that Order with or without modification) no development falling within the following classes of the Order shall be carried out without the prior written approval of the Local Planning Authority:

            Schedule 2, Part 1, Classes A, AA, B, C, D, E and F

            Schedule 2, Part 2, Classes A and C

            Reason:  To enable the Local Planning Authority to retain control over the development in the interests of the openness and visual amenity of the Green Belt, in accordance with Policy CS5 of the Dacorum Borough Core Strategy (2013).

7.         7. Within three months of the date of this decision, details of the provision of an Electric Vehicle active charging point shall be submitted to the Local Planning Authority. These details shall include its location, the type of charger and the power supply. Within three months of the approval of these details, the Electric Vehicle active charging point shall be fully installed in accordance with the approved details, and shall thereafter be retained. There shall be no use of any of the three parking spaces hereby permitted unless the approved Electric Vehicle active charging point has been installed in accordance with the approved details within 18 months of the date of this decision.

Reason:In the interest of the sustainability of the dwelling in accordance withDacorum Parking Standards Supplementary Planning Document (2020).

 8.        The development hereby permitted shall be carried out in accordance with the following approved plans/documents:

            9407-L-00-LP Rev. B (Location Plan)

9407-L-00-04 Rev.C (Block Plan)

            9407-L-00-03 Rev.C (Proposed Structure: Floor Plans and Elevations)

            Reason:  For the avoidance of doubt and in the interests of proper planning.