Agenda item

Demolition of existing garages and bungalow and erection of 9 dwelling houses, access road and car parking

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

 

The Development Management Team Leader introduced the report.  He advised that the application sought the demolition of the existing garages and bungalow and subsequent erection of nine dwelling houses, an access road and car parking.

 

The Chair invited Central Ward Councillor Steve Bolton to speak to the committee.  Councillor Bolton outlined the compact and congested nature of the site.  Residents were concerned that the proposed development would exacerbate existing parking and manoeuvring difficulties in the surrounding area, particularly during the evenings.

 

Despite exclusion from the controlled parking zone preventing residents’ parking permits being issued to the site, residents were concerned that there would be overspill parking from the new development.

 

In response to a query from the Chair, the Development Management Team Leader advised that Hertfordshire County Council (Highways Authority) had raised no objections to the development.

 

The Chair invited comments from members. 

 

Although noting the significant concerns of residents about on-street parking problems in the area, members welcomed the development which provided a different housing choice to many of the applications brought to committee.  It was suggested that current parking enforcement arrangements should be kept under review.

 

The Chair moved the officer’s recommendation subject to the successful completion of a section 106 undertaking.

 

RESOLVED –

 

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

 

Section 106 Heads of Terms

 

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

           

Site location plan

Site block plan

2015/302/01A, 2015/302/02

           

3.         The development shall only be carried out in accordance with the Environmental Management Plan detailed in the Supporting Statement by Battram Associates dated 28th November 2018 as approved under planning ref. 18/01573/DISCON.

 

4.         No demolition of the existing buildings below ground level or construction of the development shall commence until a detailed scheme to deal with the risks associated with the potential contamination of the site has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. That scheme shall include all of the following elements:

 

i)          a preliminary risk assessment which has identified:

·        all previous uses

·        potential contaminants associated with those uses

·        a conceptual model of the site indicating sources, pathways and receptors

·        potentially unacceptable risks arising from contamination at the site;

 

ii)         a site investigation scheme, based on (i) above, to provide information for a detailed assessment of the risk to all receptors that may be affected, including those off-site;

 

iii)        the results of the site investigation and risk assessment referred to in (ii) above and, based on these, an options appraisal and remediation strategy giving full details of the remediation measures required and how they are to be undertaken;

 

iv)        a verification plan providing details of the data that will be collected in order to demonstrate that the works set out in the remediation strategy in (iii) are complete and identifying any requirements for longer-term monitoring of pollutant linkages, maintenance and arrangements for contingency action.

 

No changes to these components shall be undertaken without the written approval of the Local Planning Authority. All works shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details.

 

5.         No construction works shall commence until a verification report demonstrating completion of the works set out in the approved remediation strategy (see Condition 4 above) and the effectiveness of the remediation has been submitted to and approved, in writing, by the Local Planning Authority. The report shall include results of sampling and monitoring carried out in accordance with the approved verification plan to demonstrate that the site remediation criteria have been met. It shall also include a plan (a "long-term monitoring and maintenance plan") for longer-term monitoring of pollutant linkages, maintenance and arrangements for contingency action, as identified in the verification plan, and for the reporting of this to the local planning authority. The long-term monitoring and maintenance plan shall be implemented as approved.

 

6.         If, during development, contamination not previously identified is found to be present at the site then no further development shall be carried out until the developer has submitted to, and obtained written approval from, the Local Planning Authority for a remediation strategy detailing how this unsuspected contamination is to be dealt with. All works shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details.

 

7.         No part of the development shall be occupied until the sustainable surface water drainage scheme detailed in the Supporting Statement by Battram Associates dated 28th November 2018 and on Site Plan drawing no. 7147-10A, with the use of Marshalls Argent Priora permeable block paving, as approved under ref. 18/01573/DISCON, has been implemented in full, unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

 

8.         The development shall be carried out only in accordance with the following approved materials, unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority:

 

            Facing brick - Ibstock Ashdown

Detail brick - mellow red brick

Roof tiles - Marley Modern tile in grey

Windows - White uPVC double glazed incorporating Georgian bar fenestration

Doors - Composite colour coated uPVC

 

9.         The external lighting scheme comprising 3 no. low level lighting bollards, as shown on Site Plan drawing no. 7147-10A, and external lights to each front door, as approved under application ref. 18/01573/DISCON, shall be installed as approved before the first occupation of any part of the development, unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

 

10.       No dwelling shall be occupied until the new access junction to Hamilton Street, as shown in principle on approved drawing no. 2015/302/01A, has been constructed in full. This shall include measures to ensure surface water run-off does not enter the highway from the application site.

 

11.       No dwelling shall be occupied until full details of a soft landscaping scheme have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The approved landscaping scheme 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.

 

12.       The development shall be carried out only in accordance with the following approved hard landscaping materials, as approved under application ref. 18/01573/DISCON, unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority:

 

            Central access - Marshalls Argent Priora permeable block paving in Grey

Parking area - Marshalls Argent Priora permeable block paving in Dark Burnt Red for the parking spaces with demarcation of spaces in Grey paviours

Boundary fencing to plots - 1.8m high dark stained close boarded fencing

Pathways and patios - sandstone paving slabs

Site Plan drawing no. 7147-10A

 

13.       No dwelling shall be occupied until the 14 car parking spaces, as shown on approved drawing no. 2015/302/01A, have been constructed in full. These spaces shall be retained for the parking of cars at all times.

           

Informatives

 

1.                     IN907 – Positive and proactive statement

2.                     IN909 – Street naming and numbering

3.                     IN910 – Building Regulations

4.                     IN911 – Party Wall Act

5.                     IN912 – Hours of Construction

6.                     IN913 – Community Infrastructure Levy Liability

7.                     IN914 – Section 106 Agreement/Undertaking

8.                     IN915 – Highway Works – HCC agreement required