Erection of 3no, three bedroom townhouses, 1no, one bedroom apartment and 1no, two bedroom apartment

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

The Principal Planning Officer (CO) explained that the application proposed the erection of three, three-bedroom townhouses, one one-bedroom apartment and one two-bedroom apartment (amended description).  Members were being asked to consider a proposed variation to the s106 heads of terms.

Simon Warner, the agent, had provided a commentary on this application above and declined to speak twice.

As this proposal was considered under the previous item, the Chair moved the officer’s recommendation.

RESOLVED –

That, pursuant to a Unilateral Undertaking under s.106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 having been completed to secure the following planning obligation, conditional planning permission be granted subject to the conditions listed below:

Unilateral Undertaking Planning Obligation

i)          To secure a financial payment to the Council of £2,000 towards the variation of the Borough of Watford (Watford Central Area and West Watford Area)(Controlled Parking Zones)(Consolidation) Order 2010 to exclude the site from the controlled parking zone, thereby preventing residents’ parking permits being issued to this site.

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.         No construction works above damp proof course level shall commence until full details and samples of the materials to be used for the external surfaces of the building, including doors, and windows have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Thereafter, the development shall only be implemented in accordance with the approved details.

3.         The windows and the doors to be inserted in the external walls of the building shall be recessed a minimum of 6cm from the external walls, unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

4.         No construction works above damp proof course level shall commence until full details of the provision for bicycle storage facilities, refuse and re-cycling storage 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 prior to the first occupation of any part of the development and shall be retained thereafter.

5.         No construction works above damp proof course level shall commence until details of the siting, height and type of fencing or other means of enclosure around the boundaries of the site and within the site have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  The fencing or other means of enclosure shall be provided as approved prior to the first occupation of the dwelling hereby approved and shall be maintained as such at all times thereafter.

6.         Notwithstanding the provisions of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015 (as amended) (or any modification or re-enactment thereof), no development permitted under Schedule 2, Part 1, Classes A, B, C, D, E, F and G of the Order shall be carried out to the dwellings hereby approved without the prior written permission of the Local Planning Authority.

7.         No construction works above damp proof course level shall commence until a hard and soft landscaping scheme for the site (including a detailed method statement covering tree planting, tree, shrub and grass specie, planting size and density and all hard surfacing materials) has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The approved hard landscaping shall be carried out prior to the first occupation of any part of the development and shall be retained at all times. The soft landscaping shall be carried out not later than the first available planting and seeding season after completion of the development.  Any trees or plants whether new or existing 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.

8.         No construction works above damp proof course level shall commence until details of the stopping up of the existing accesses on St. Johns Road and Estcourt Road, by raising the existing dropped kerbs and reinstating the footways, and highway boundary to the same line, level and detail as the adjoining footway, and highway boundary have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority in conjunction with the Highway Authority. The development shall not be brought into use until the access has been stopped up in accordance with the approved details.

9.         Notwithstanding the drawings hereby approved, no construction works above damp proof course shall commence until details of the front gable features and the rear dormer windows have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Thereafter, the development shall only be implemented in accordance with the approved details.

10.       All materials and equipment to be used during the construction of the development shall be stored within the curtilage of the site unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Highway Authority prior to commencement of the development.

11.       Notwithstanding the information already submitted, no development shall commence until detailed plans showing the existing and new or altered ground levels within the site and the floor levels of each of the proposed dwellings have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The development shall be carried out only in accordance with the details approved under this condition.

12.       The scheme hereby approved shall be carried out strictly in accordance with drawing numbers 1962/P2/1, 1962/P2/2, 1962/P2/3 and 1962/P2/4, unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

Informatives

IN907 Consideration of the proposal in a positive and proactive manner

IN909 Street Naming and Numbering

IN910 Building Regulations

IN911 Party Wall Act

IN912  Hours of Construction

IN913 Community Infrastructure Levy

IN914  Unilateral Undertaking

IN915 Highway Works – HCC agreement required