Agenda item

The Development Management Manager delivered their report to the committee.

The Chair thanked the Development Management Manager, he commended the application. As there were no comments from other members of the committee the Chair moved for the committee to vote on the officer’s recommendation that planning permission be granted.

On being put to the committee, the application was granted.

RESOLVED –

That planning permission be granted subject to the following conditions:

1. Time limit

The development to which this permission relates shall be begun before 7th December 2025.

2. Approved drawings and documents

The development hereby permitted shall be carried out in accordance with the following approved drawings and documents:

- 0395-A100 SITE PLANS

- 0395-A101 EXTG PLANS

- 0395 A107

- F22002_02 REV A

- F22002_03 REV A

- F22002_04 REV A

- F22002_05 REV A

- 0395-A140/B PROPOSED GA FLOORPLANS (UNITS 1-3)

- 0395-A300 EXTG N&S ELEVATIONS

- 0395-A301 EXTG E&W ELEVATIONS

- 0395-A301/B PROPOSED ELEVATIONS (UNITS 1-3)

- 0395-A130/A PROPOSED COORDINATED SITE PLAN (UNITS 1-3)

- 0395 CAR PARK SITE

- 0395-A200 SECT 1 & 2 (REV A).

- 0395-A102 PROPOSED SITE PLANS (REV A).

- 0395-A105 PROPOSED PLANS (UNIT 4)(REV A

- DESIGN AND ACCESS STATEMENT 1

- DESIGN AND ACCESS STATEMENT 2

- MPL TREE CONSULTANCY LTD ARBORICULTURAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT. REF. PD002248A. DATED JUNE 2022

- F22002 GREYCAINE ROAD WATFORD – TRANSPORT STATEMENT. REF. BANCROFT CONSULTING. DATED JANUARY 2022.

3. Surface Water Drainage

No construction works shall commence until a detailed surface water drainage strategy has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The strategy shall include surface water storage/attenuation for the 1 in 100 year storm event with a 40% allowance for climate change and greenfield run-off rates.

4. Materials

No development shall commence until details and samples of the materials to be used for all the external finishes of the development hereby approved, including all external walls, all roofs, doors, windows, fascias, rainwater and foul drainage goods, have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The development shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details and samples.

5. Highway Works

No unit shall be occupied until the modified access and egress arrangements for that unit, as shown in principle on the revised approved drawings F22002/02, 03, 04, 05, has been completed in full.

6. Car Parking

The development hereby approved shall not be occupied until the new on-site car parking spaces and manoeuvring areas have been constructed and laid out in accordance with the approved drawings. The vehicular access and onsite car parking spaces and manoeuvring areas shall be retained at all times thereafter unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

7. EV charging points

The development hereby approved shall not be occupied until 20% active electric vehicle charging points and 80% passive vehicle charging points have been provided in accordance with the approved drawings. The electric charging infrastructure shall be retained at all times thereafter.

8. BREEAM Certificate

The development shall be constructed to the BREEAM Very Good standard. No part of the development hereby approved shall be occupied until a post-completion certificate to certify that the BREEAM Very Good standard has been achieved has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

9. Plant and equipment

No plant or equipment that generates sound shall be installed to Unit 4 of the development until full details and specification of the equipment have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The details shall include an assessment of the plant/equipment carried out by a suitably qualified and competent acoustic consultant to consider the potential impact on existing and future residents adjacent to the site. The details shall also include a specification of what design criteria needs to be included to the specification of the plant and its mounting on the buildings, to minimise any potential disturbance. The assessment shall include any other appropriate noise mitigation measures. All plant and equipment shall be installed as approved and no plant or equipment shall be brought into operation until any approved mitigation measures have been installed.

10. Soft and hard landscaping

No part of the development shall be occupied until full details of both hard and soft landscaping works, including details of all existing trees to be retained, trees and soft landscaping to be planted, any other arboricultural works to be carried out, details of any changes to ground levels around the building, all pathways, all hard surfacing, amenity areas/paving and boundary treatments, have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The landscaping scheme shall include native planting and set out biodiversity enhancements. The approved landscaping scheme, with the exception of the planting, shall be completed prior to any occupation of the development. Any proposed planting shall be completed not later than the first available planting and seeding season after completion of the development. Any new trees or plants which within a period of five years die, are removed or become seriously damaged or diseased shall be replaced in the next planting season with others of similar size and species, or in accordance with details approved by the Local Planning Authority.

11. Refuse, recycling and cycle stores

The refuse, recycling and cycle storage shall be constructed and installed in accordance with the approved drawings and made available for use prior to the occupation of any part of the development. The storage shall be secure, covered and well-lit and retained as approved at all times thereafter.

12. Travel Plan

At least 3 months prior to the first occupation of the approved development a Travel Plan Statement for the site shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The approved Travel Plan Statement shall be implemented in accordance with the timetable and target contained in therein and shall continue to be implemented as long as any part of the development is occupied subject to approved modifications agreed by the Local Planning Authority in consultation with the Highway Authority as part of the annual review.

13. Surface water run off

Prior to the first use of the development hereby permitted, arrangement shall be made for surface water from the proposed development to be intercepted and disposed of separately so that it does not discharge onto the highway carriageway.

14. Use classes B2, B8 or E(g) only

Notwithstanding the provisions of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended), and any subsequent legislation that amends or supersedes this Order, the floorspace hereby approved shall only be used for purposes within Use Classes B2, B8 or E(g)(ii) and (iii) of the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987 (as amended), unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority.