Agenda item

4/00774/17/FUL - DEMOLITION OF EXISTING GARAGE AND CONSTRUCTION OF 5-BED DWELLING - LAND ADJ. 25 HALL PARK, BERKHAMSTED, HP4 2NU

Minutes:

P Stanley introduced the item and said it had been referred to committee due to the contrary views of Berkhamsted Town Council. He said two new conditions would be added, one for a privacy screen and one to ensure obscured glazing would be retained.

Mr Phipps spoke in objection to this application.

Peter Knightly spoke in support of this application.

It was proposed by Councillor C Wyatt-Lowe and seconded by Councillor P Hearn to grant the application in line with the officer’s recommendation.

Vote

For: 7                           Against: 3                    Abstained: 3

Resolved:

That planning permission be GRANTED subject to the following conditions:

1

The development hereby permitted shall be begun before the expiration of three years from the date of this permission.

 

Reason:  To comply with the requirements of Section 91 (1) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 as amended by Section 51 (1) of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004.

 

2

The development hereby permitted shall not be carried out other than in accordance with the following approved plans/documents: 17 506 PL03D & 17 506 PL02D & 17 506 PL01B & 17 506 PL05 & 17 506 PL04.

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

 

3

Prior to the construction of the dwelling hereby permitted, detailed specifications of the materials to be used in the external surface of unit must be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Subsequently, development must be carried out and retained as approved. 

 

Reason: To ensure a satisfactory appearance to the development in accordance with Policies CS11, CS12 and CS13 of the Dacorum Core Strategy 2013.

 

 

4

Prior to first occupation of the dwelling hereby approved full details on a suitably scaled plan of hard and soft landscape works must be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Subsequently, these works shall be in addition to those shown on the approved plans and shall be carried out and retained as approved.  The landscaping details to be submitted shall include:-

 

a) means of enclosure.

b) existing and proposed finished levels and finished floor levels.

c) details for all external hard surface within the site, including roads, drainage detail and car parking areas.

d) planting plans, including specifications of species, sizes, planting centres, planting method and number and percentage mix.

 

Reason: To ensure a satisfactory appearance to the development in accordance with Policies CS11, CS12 and CS13 of the Dacorum Core Strategy 2013.

 

 

5

All planting, seeding or turfing and soil preparation comprised in the approved details of landscaping shall be carried out in the first planting and seeding seasons following first occupation of the building; and any trees or plants which within a period of five years from the completion of the development die, are removed or become seriously damaged or diseased shall be replaced in the next planting season with others of similar size and species. All landscape works shall be carried out in accordance with the guidance contained in British Standards.

 

Reason: To ensure proper implementation of the agreed landscape details in the interest of the amenity value of the development in accordance with Policies 99 and 100 of the Dacorum Local Plan 2004.

 

6

Notwithstanding the provisions of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2017 (as amended) (or any Order amending or re-enacting that Order with or without modification) no development within Schedule 2, Part 1, Classes A and B shall take place.

Reason: To enable the local planning authority to retain control over the development in the interests of safeguarding residential amenity and the character of the area, in accordance with Policy CS12 of the Dacorum Core Strategy 2013.

 

7

During any ground works at the site in association with the development hereby approved a Watching Brief shall be kept to monitor any potentially contaminated material. Should any such material be encountered, the development must cease immediately and the Council must be informed without delay and an appropriate course of action agreed in writing. Subsequently, the development shall continue in accordance with this agreed course of action until completed. Further, basic ground gas protection measures shall be incorporated into any ground works.

 

Reason: In the interests of human health, in accordance with Policy CS32 of the Dacorum Core strategy 2013.

 

8

Prior to the first occupation of the development hereby approved, the site frontage must be kept free of all obstruction to visibility over a height of 0.6m for a distance of 0.65m to both sides of the driveway above the adjoining footpath level. Visibility shall be remain as such for the lifetime of the development hereby approved. 

 

Reason: To provide adequate visibility between the existing highway and the proposed access and to make the access safe and convenient for the traffic that is likely to use it, in accordance with Policies CS8 and CS9 of the Dacorum Core strategy 2013 and Policy 51 of the Dacorum Local Plan 2004.

 

9

The approved car parking spaces shall have measurements of 2.4m x 4.8m min. and shall be maintained as a permanent ancillary to the development and shall be paved and used for no other purpose.

 

Reason: To ensure the adequate provision of off-street parking at all times in order to minimise the impact on the safe and efficient operation of the adjoining Highway, in accordance with Policies CS8 and CS9 of the Dacorum Core strategy 2013 and Policy 51 of the Dacorum Local Plan 2004.

 

10

Prior to the first occupation of the development hereby approved, all on site vehicular areas shall be surfaced in accordance with details agreed under condition 4 to ensure satisfactory parking of vehicles outside highway limits. Arrangements shall be made for surface water from the site to be intercepted and disposed of separately so that it does not discharge into the highway.

 

Reason: In order to minimise danger, obstruction, and inconvenience to users of the highway and of the premises, in accordance with Policies CS8 and CS9 of the Dacorum Core strategy 2013 and Policy 51 of the Dacorum Local Plan 2004. 

 

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Prior to the first occupation of the development hereby approved, the new vehicle crossover shall be constructed as approved to the current specification of the Highway Authority.

 

Reason: In the interest of highway safety and amenity and to ensure the development makes adequate provision for on-site parking and manoeuvring of vehicles likely to be associated with its use, in accordance with Policies CS8 and CS9 of the Dacorum Core strategy 2013 and Policy 51 of the Dacorum Local Plan 2004. 

 

Planning permission has been granted for this proposal. Discussion with the applicant to seek an acceptable solution was necessary in this instance. The Council has therefore acted pro-actively in line with the requirements of the Framework (paragraphs 186 and 187) and in accordance with the Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2015.  

 

Notwithstanding the details shown on the approved prior to first occupation of the dwelling hereby approved full details of the privacy screens on the terrace and first floor rear balcony shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The approved details shall then be carried out and retained as approved in perpetuity.

 

Reason: In the interests of the residential amenities of the occupants of the adjacent dwellings in accordance with Policy CS12 of the Dacorum Core Strategy 2013.

 

The window at first floor level in both the southern and northern side elevations of the dwelling hereby permitted shall be permanently fitted with obscured glass and non-opening below 1.7 metres. The rooflights on the northern side elevation of the dwelling hereby permitted shall be permanently fitted with obscured glass and non-opening unless the rooflight is 1.7 metres or more above the finished floor level of the room in which it is sited.

 

Reason:  In the interests of the residential amenities of the occupants of the adjacent dwellings in accordance with Adopted Core Strategy CS12.

 

As the rules of the Development Management Committee state, at 10pm, it was proposed by Councillor P Hearn and seconded by Councillor Matthews to continue the meeting until 10.30pm.

Vote

For: 13                         Against: 0                    Abstained: 0

 

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