Agenda item

Construction of vehicle parking deck (2 levels) together with associated works including lighting, reconfiguration of existing surface spaces and cycle storage.

The Committee received the report of the Head of Development Management, including the relevant planning history of the site and details of responses to the application.

The Development Management Team Leader (PB) introduced the item, explaining that the proposal involved the erection of a decked car park and a double height external car showroom, adjacent to the existing buildings, sited over the existing surface level parking area within the central part of the site.

The parking deck would increase the number of parking spaces on the site from 131 to 206, providing customer parking, operational parking and the display of used cars for sale.

There were no comments from the Committee and the Chair moved the officer recommendation.

RESOLVED –

That planning permission be granted subject to the following conditions:

Conditions

1.         The development to which this permission relates shall be begun within a period of three years commencing on the date of this permission.

2.         The development hereby permitted shall be carried out in accordance with the following approved drawings:-

            P-Site-01 P04, P-Site-02 P02, P-Site-03 P02

            P-00-01 P02P-01-01 P02, P-02-01 P04, P-03-01 P04

E-01 P02, E-02 P02

S-01 P02, S-02P 02, S-03 P01, S-05 P01, S-06 P01

3.         No development works shall commence until a Phase 2 Ground Investigation Study, detailing any proposed remedial works, has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Where remedial works are proposed, no part of the development shall be occupied until a Verification Report, confirming these works have been completed, has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

4.         No development works shall commence until a detailed schedule of external materials and samples to be used for the development has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The development shall only be carried out in accordance with the approved details.

5.         The development permitted by this planning permission shall be carried out in accordance with the approved flood risk assessment (FRA) prepared by Hydrock Ref: R/C151707/001.02 dated October 2015. The mitigation measures shall be fully implemented prior to occupation and subsequently in accordance with the timing / phasing arrangements embodied within the scheme, or within any other period as may subsequently be agreed, in writing, by the Local Planning Authority.

6.         No building hereby permitted shall be occupied until surface water drainage works have been implemented in accordance with details that have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The details of the drainage scheme shall:

i)          Provide a fully detailed drainage plan, showing pipe runs, diameters, location of SuDS features and discharge point.

ii)         Indicate the location of the discharge point.

iii)        Demonstrate that proposed drainage scheme ensures that no flooding will occur during any rainfall event up to and including the 1 in 30 year event.

The approved details shall be managed and maintained thereafter in accordance with the approved details.

7.         No loading or unloading of cars to or from any car transporter associated with the use of the site shall take place except within the boundary of the application site as denoted on drawing no. P-Site-01 P04.

Informative

1.         In dealing with this application, Watford Borough Council has considered the proposal in a positive and proactive manner having regard to the policies of the development plan as well as paragraphs 186 and 187 of the National Planning Policy Framework and other material considerations, and in accordance with the Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2010, as amended. The Council also undertook discussions with the applicant’s agent during the application process.