Agenda item

Agenda item

19/01450/FULM - 26-28 Station Road

Demolition of the existing building and construction of a mixed use seven storey block comprising 1040 sq.m of commercial space and 9 residential units.

Minutes:

The committee received the report of the Head of Development Management, including the relevant planning history of the site.

 

The Head of Development Management introduced the report explaining that the application proposed the demolition of the existing building and construction of a mixed use seven storey block comprising 1040 sq.m of commercial space and 9 residential units.

 

The Chair summed up the application and stated that he approved of the application.  There followed general agreement and recommendation of the application. 

 

A question was asked about what would happen if there was a subsequent application to increase the number of residential properties to 10 or more.  The Head of Development Management assured the committee that if that happened, the Council’s affordable housing policies would be applied. 

 

The Chair moved the officer’s recommendation to approve, subject to conditions and a S106 Heads of Terms as set out in section 8 of this report.

 

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)       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 development.

 

 

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:-

    

STR/19/PL/2/LP01 – Location Plan

STR/19/PL/2/L01 – Site Plan

STR/19/PL/2/L 10 Rev A – Proposed ground floor

STR/19/PL/2/L11 – First and second floor plan

STR/19/PL/2/L12 – Third and Fourth floor plan

STR/19/PL/2/L13 – Fifth and sixth floor plan

STR/19/PL/2/L14 – Roof plan

STR/19/PL/2/L20 – Front elevation

STR/19/PL/2/L21 – Side 1 elevation

STR/19/PL/2/L22 – Rear and Side 2 elevation

STR/19/PL/2/L23 – Rear and Side 2 elevation

STR/19/PL/2/L30 – Visuals

 

3.      The development permitted by this planning permission shall be carried

out in accordance with the approved surface water drainage

assessment carried out by jnpgroup, reference S10681 R002 Rev B,

dated June 2019.the following mitigation measures detailed within the

FRA:

1. Limiting the surface water run-off generated by the critical storm events so that it will not exceed the surface water run-off rate of 2.5 l/s during the 1 in 100 year event plus 40% of climate change event.

2. Providing storage to ensure no increase in surface water run-off

volumes for all rainfall events up to and including the 1 in 100 year + climate change event providing a minimum of 26.7 m3 (or such storage volume agreed with the LLFA) of total storage volume in permeable paved area.

3. Discharge of surface water from the private drain into the Thames

Water sewer network.

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.

 

4.      No development shall take place until a detailed surface water drainage scheme for the site based on the approved drainage strategy and sustainable drainage principles, has been submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority. The drainage strategy should demonstrate the surface water run-off generated up to and including 1 in 100 year + climate change critical storm will not exceed the run-off from the undeveloped site following the corresponding rainfall event.

The scheme shall subsequently be implemented in accordance with the approved details before the development is completed.

1. Final detailed drainage plan including the location and provided volume of all SuDS features, pipe runs and discharge points. If areas are to be designated for informal flooding these should also be shown on a detailed site plan.

2. Exploration of the potential to include additional permeable paving within the site.

3. Detailed engineered drawings of the proposed SuDS features including cross section drawings, their size, volume, depth and any inlet and outlet features including any connecting pipe runs.

4. Final detailed management plan to include arrangements for adoption and any other arrangements to secure the operation of the scheme throughout its lifetime.

 

5.      No piling shall take place until a piling method statement (detailing the

depth and type of piling to be undertaken and the methodology by which such piling will be carried out, including measures to prevent and minimise the potential for damage to subsurface sewerage infrastructure, and the programme for the works) has been submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority in consultation with Thames Water. Any piling must be undertaken in accordance with the terms of the approved piling method statement.

 

6.      No external facing materials shall be installed on the building until full details and samples of all the materials to be used for the external surfaces of the building have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Details shall include the reveals for windows and doors of the development.

 

7.      No part of the development shall be occupied until detailed hard and soft landscaping scheme for the site, has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The approved soft landscaping scheme shall be carried out not later than the first available planting and seeding season after completion of 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 dwelling within the development shall be occupied until the bin and bicycle storage for the residential dwellings has been installed in accordance with approved drawing STR/19/PL/2/L 10 Rev A. These facilities shall be retained at all times.

 

9.      No part of the commercial premises shall be occupied until the bin and bicycle storage facilities for the commercial users has been installed in accordance with approved drawing STR/19/PL/2/L 10 Rev A. These facilities shall be retained at all times.

 

10.    No dwelling shall be occupied until details of a communal terrestrial television aerial(s) and satellite dish(es) have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

 

11.    All residential units shall include the noise mitigation measures detailed in section 4.2 of the ‘Acoustic Design Statement’ dated DLW/7236/A dated 13th December 2019 prepared by AIRO Ltd.

 

12.    The ground floor premises shown on STR/19/PL/2/L 10 Rev A shall be used only for financial and professional services within Use Class A2 and for no other purpose.

 

13.    The office floorspace of the first, second, third and fourth floors, as shown on STR/19/PL/2/L11 and STR/19/PL/2/L12 shall be used only as office use within use class B1(a) of the schedule to the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987 (as amended).

 

14.    The upper floor windows in the east and north east side elevations shall be installed and retained with obscure-glazing, and shall be non-opening other than in parts of the windows which are more than 1.7 metres above the floor of the room in which the window is installed.

 

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