Minutes:
Consideration was given to a report of the Head of Planning and Transportation Service which detailed the above application for planning permission.
Resolved:- (1) That the Council enter into a legal agreement with the applicant under the provisions of Section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 for the purposes of ensuring:-
· Provision of affordable units, the affordable units to be provided by the Developer on site will be 7.5% of the total number of units (total number to be approved at the reserved matters stage) to be offered on a shared-equity basis to qualifying persons on the Key Choices list to meet local affordable housing need in the form of built units on site.
(2) That consequent upon the satisfactory conclusion of the agreement, planning permission be granted for the reasons adopted by Members for the proposed development and listed in the report and subject to the following conditions:-
General
1. Before the commencement of the development, details of the siting, design and external appearance of the building(s), the means of access thereto and the landscaping of the site shall be submitted to, and approved by, the Local Planning Authority and the development shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details.
Transportation
2. The development shall not be commenced until details of a 1.8 metre wide footway, constructed to adoptable standards between points A – B, indicated on the attached plan, have been submitted to, and approved in writing by, the Council and the approved details shall be implemented before the development is occupied.
3. Before the development is brought into use, that part of the site to be used by vehicles shall be properly drained and constructed in concrete, tarmacadam, block paving or other such material as may be agreed by the Local Planning Authority and shall thereafter be maintained in a sound condition.
4. Not later than seven days after the completion of the sale or lease of each dwelling, the developer shall procure from the SYPTE a Travel Master Pass and Journey Planner valid for one year on behalf of each household who shall be the first occupants of such a dwelling and the developer shall give details of the application and the date upon which it was made to the Council.
5. Secure cycle parking facilities shall be provided within the site in accordance with the Council’s Cycle Parking Guidelines for New Developments before the development is occupied
Drainage
6. Details of the proposed means of disposal of foul and surface water drainage, including details of any off-site work, shall be submitted to, and approved by, the Local Planning Authority and the development shall not be brought into use until such approved details are implemented.
7. The site shall be developed with separate systems of drainage for foul and surface water on and off site.
8. No piped discharge of surface water from the application site shall take place until works to provide a satisfactory outfall for surface water have been completed in accordance with details to be submitted to, and approved in writing by, the Local Planning Authority prior to the commencement of development.
Environmental Health
9. Prior to the commencement of the development, the developer shall submit a site investigation report for the approval of the Local Planning Authority. The investigation shall address the nature, degree and distribution of contamination on site and its implications on the health and safety of site workers and nearby persons, building structures and services, final end users of the site, landscaping schemes and environmental pollution, including ground water, and make recommendations so as to ensure the safe development and use of the site. The sampling and analytical strategy shall be approved by the Local Planning Authority prior to the start of the survey and all recommendations and remedial works contained within the approved report shall be implemented by the developer, prior to occupation of the site.
10. Effective steps shall be taken by the developer to prevent the deposition of mud and other material on the adjoining public highway caused by vehicles entering and leaving the site during the construction of the development.
Landscape
11. Within the first available planting season after the commencement of the development, trees and/or shrubs shall be planted on the site in accordance with a scheme to be submitted to, and approved by, the Local Planning Authority. Such scheme to provide for species, siting, planting distances, programme of planting and maintenance to establishment and any plants dying, removed or destroyed within five years of planting shall be replaced in a manner to be agreed with the Local Planning Authority.
Miscellaneous
12. No development shall take place until samples of the materials to be used in the construction of the external surfaces of the development hereby permitted have been submitted to, and approved in writing by, the Local Planning Authority and the development shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details.
13. No development shall take place until there has been submitted to, and approved in writing by, the Local Planning Authority a plan indicating the positions, design, materials and type of boundary treatment to be erected. The boundary treatment shall be completed before *the occupation of the residential units*.
14. Prior to the occupation of the residential units details of bin store and refuse collection shall be submitted to, and approved in writing by, the Local Planning Authority and such approved details shall be implemented prior to occupation.
15. Land levels shall not be raised above the existing levels on site, the details of which should be submitted to, and approved in writing by, the Local Planning Authority prior to the commencement of development.
16. Any construction/demolition work necessary to carry out the development hereby granted shall only be permitted between the following hours, Monday - Friday inclusive 0800 - 1800, Saturday 0800 - 1300 and not at all on Sundays/Bank Holidays.
17. Prior to the use being commenced, a scheme shall be submitted to the Council for approval in writing, indicating strategies to be implemented to enable local people access to job opportunities arising from the development site. Within 12 months of the use being commenced a statement shall be provided to, and approved in writing by, the Local Planning Authority demonstrating how occupants have complied with the approved scheme.
Reasons:-
1. No details of the matters referred to having been submitted, they are reserved for the subsequent approval of the Local Planning Authority.
2. To enable the provision of a complete pedestrian link between the site and the existing signalled controlled pedestrian crossing of A629 Wortley Road to the southeast, in the interests of road safety.
3. To encourage drivers to make use of the parking spaces and to ensure that the use of the land for this purpose will not give rise to the deposit of mud and other extraneous material on the public highway in the interests of road safety.
4. In order to promote sustainable transport choices.
5. In order to promote sustainable transport choices.
6. To ensure that the development can be properly drained in accordance with UDP policies ENV3.2 ‘Minimising the Impact of Development’ and ENV3.7 ‘Control of Pollution’.
7. In the interests of satisfactory and sustainable drainage.
8. To ensure that the site is properly drained and surface water is not discharged to the foul sewerage system which will prevent overloading.
9. In the interests of safe redevelopment and after use of this site and in accordance with UDP Policy 4.4 ‘ContaminatedLand’.
10. In order to ensure the development does not give rise to problems of mud/material deposit on the adjoining public highway in the interests of road safety.
11. To ensure that there is a well laid out scheme of healthy trees and shrubs in the interests of amenity and in accordance with UDP Policies ENV3 ‘Borough Landscape’, ENV3.1 ‘Development and the Environment’, ENV3.2 ‘Minimising the Impact of Development’ and ENV3.4 ‘Trees, Woodlands and Hedgerows’.
12. To ensure that appropriate materials are used in the construction of the development in the interests of visual amenity and in accordance with UDP Policy ENV3.1 ‘Development and the Environment’.
13. In the interests of the visual amenity of the area and in accordance with UDP Policy ENV3.1 ‘Development and the Environment’.
14. In the interests of the visual amenity of the locality and the residential amenity of the future occupiers of the development in accordance with UDP Policy ENV3.1 ‘Development and the Environment’.
15. In the interests of the visual amenity of the locality and in accordance with UDP Policy ENV3.1 ‘Development and the Environment’.
16. In the interests of the residential amenity of the adjacent occupiers.
17. In the interests of economic regeneration of settlements associated with the development site.