Agenda item

Outline application for the erection of one detached dwelling and one detached garage including access.

Land adjacent to Glenhirst  Station Road  Boston

Mr and Mrs N C Bell

Outline Planning Permission

Outline application for the erection of one detached dwelling and one detached garage including access with matters relating to appearance, landscaping, layout and scale reserved for later approval.

Land adjacent to Glenhirst  Station Road  Swineshead  Boston

Mr and Mrs N C Bell

The Development Control Manager presented the report and advised that no updates to the report published within the agenda had been received.

Representation was received from the agent on behalf of the applicant:

Committee were reminded that the application was a straightforward outline application and would provide a small contribution to the borough’s housing shortage in a sustainable community.  Referring to the size of the development the committee were asked to recognise that the footprint of the existing glasshouse house, that would be demolished to enable the build, was significantly larger than the proposed new dwelling.  The private gardens on the site would remain unchanged and concerns of loss of the Old Cobblers Shop and Anderson Shelter were unfounded as neither would need to be demolished to allow the development to take place. There would be no overlooking onto neighbouring property which would be dealt with at reserved stage.   Referring to concerns raised in objection due to flooding were acknowledged, but the committee were advised that whilst flooding had occurred previously it had been due to highway water and not water from the application site:  the reduction in the size of the building on the site would reduce any rapid run-off.

It was moved by Councillor Jonathan Noble and seconded by Councillor Michael Cooper that the application be granted as per officer recommendation with an additional condition permitting just one new dwelling only on the site.

Vote:       11 if favour.         0. against.             0. abstention.

RESOLVED:    That the application be granted as per officer recommendation and subject to the following conditions and reasons:

1.         No development shall commence until details of appearance, layout, landscaping and scale of the development (hereafter referred to as the “reserved matters”) have been submitted to and approved by the local planning authority.

Reason:           This is an outline application only and such details must be approved before development commences in order to comply with the objectives of Local Plan policies G1 and H3 and required to be imposed pursuant to Section 92 of the Town & Country Planning Act 1990.

2.         Application for approval of all reserved matters shall be made to the local planning authority not later than the expiration of three years from the date of this permission.

Reason:            Required to be imposed pursuant to Section 92 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.

3.         The development hereby permitted shall be begun before the expiration of two years from the date of approval of the last of the reserved matters to be approved.

Reason:            Required to be imposed pursuant to Section 92 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.

4.         The development hereby permitted shall be carried out in accordance with the following approved plans –

§    OS Location Plan 15048 RL (1/4)

§    Block Plan 15048 RL 02  (2/4)

§    Site Plan (Proposed) 15048 RL 04c (3a/4) and

§    Flood Risk Assessment Version 1 September 2016, received by the LPA on 21 September 2016.

Reason:           To ensure the development is undertaken in accordance with the approved details and to accord with Adopted Local Plan Policy G1.

5.         Prior to the commencement of the development, details of the existing and proposed site levels together with details of floor levels and construction and surface water details relating to the treatment of the transitional area between raised levels on site and existing ground levels off site shall be submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority, and the development shall be built in accordance with the approved scheme.

Reason:           In the interest of residential amenity and to accord with Adopted Local Plan Policies G1 and G3.

6.         The development permitted by this planning permission shall only be carried out in accordance with the approved Flood Risk Assessment (FRA), undertaken by RM Associates (Version 1 September 2016, received by the LPA on 21 September 2016), and the following mitigation measures detailed within the FRA:

§  Finished floor levels shall be set no lower than 2.8m ODN.

§  Flood resilience and resistance measures shall be incorporated into the proposed development as stated in the FRA.

§  Fixable mountings to allow demountable defences shall be installed on all ground floor door openings to a height of 600mm above finished floor level.  

      Reason: To reduce the risk and impact of flooding on the proposed development and future occupants in accordance with Policies G3 and G4 of the Local Plan.

7.         Prior to the clearance of the site for development, the site shall be surveyed for the presence of protected species and if present a scheme of mitigation shall be submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority and the development shall be undertaken in accordance with the scheme of mitigation.

Reason:            In the interest of protected species and to accord with the Wildlife and Countryside Act and Adopted Local Plan Policy G2.

8         This permission is for the benefit of one dwelling only.

            Reason:          In accordance with the details of the application and for the avoidance of doubt that this consent relates to a single dwelling only.