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Planning application - CA//99/00910

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This application has been decided by the City Council. The decision notice is available to view in the documents associated with this application.

Application details

Application number: CA//99/00910
Application type: FULL APPLICATION
Registration Date: 16 / 09 / 1999
Comments welcome by: 09 / 06 / 2000
Committee date: 20 / 06 / 2000
Location: Barton Mill, Barton Mill Road, Sturry Road, Canterbury.
Ward:
Proposal: Residential development comprising 141 flats and houses, including conversion of existing historic buildings at Barton Mill and alteration of highway at Sturry Road.
Case Officer: Robert Britnell
Case Officer Tel: 01227 862158
Status: Decided
Agent: Lee Evans de Moubray
St Johns Lane
Canterbury
CT1 2QQ
Applicant: Burgate Investments
75 Stour Street
Canterbury
Decision Level: COMMITTEE
Decision Date: 31 / 01 / 2002
Decision: GRANTED
Conditions or Reasons:

1) 01 The development to which this permission relates must be begun not later than the expiration of five years beginning with the date on which this permission is granted. 01 REASON: In pursuance of Section 91(1) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990. 02 No dwelling or flat unit hereby granted permission shall be occupied until such time as the junction improvement of Barton Mill Road with Sturry Road, the associated traffic lights installation, the relocation of the bus stop and all associated works have been carried out in their entirety in accordance with Messrs. WSP drawing ref: MP9398/09 or such other alternative drawing as may be approved in writing by the local planning authority. 02 REASON: In order to ensure adequate highway access is available to serve the development. 03 The road, save for the wearing course, shall be constructed prior to the construction of any dwellings or flats and no dwelling or flat shall be occupied until the road serving it has been constructed in accordance with the approved plans and details, up to and including the base course. 03 REASON: To ensure the provision of adequate access to the dwellings and flats including during the course of building operations. 04 No dwelling shall be occupied until the garage and parking space to serve it have been provided in accordance with the submitted plans. No dwelling or flat unit numbered between units 73 89 inclusive shall be occupied until the parking area proposed on the south-eastern side of the river has been constructed and no unit numbered between units 91 134 shall be occupied until such time as the parking area proposed on the north-western side of the river has been provided. Thereafter all garages and parking spaces shall only be used, or kept available, for the parking of motor vehicles. 04 REASON: The development without the provision of adequate parking space would be likely to lead to inconvenience and danger to road users by virtue of vehicles parked on the public highway. 05 Before the commencement of any works in connection therewith, details of the surfacing materials of the access road, footways, parking areas, riverside walkway, courtyards, steps and any other hard surfaces in public areas of the development shall be submitted to and approved by the local planning authority. 05 REASON: To ensure adequate standards of access, the satisfactory appearance of the development as a whole and the protection of the historic character of the locality. 06 No work shall be commenced on any building before samples of materials to be used in the exterior of that building have been submitted to and approved by the local planning authority and where appropriate sample panels of brickwork and/or flintwork have been constructed on site to demonstrate pointing technique. 06 REASON: To ensure that the external appearance of the buildings does not prejudice the appearance or historic character of the locality. 07 Before the commencement of any works in connection therewith, details of the joinery and construction of the proposed doors, windows, doorhoods, doorcases, eaves, verges, conservatories, bay windows, dormers, boarding, balconies and louvres shall be submitted to and approved by the local planning authority. 07 REASON: To ensure that the external appearance of the buildings does not prejudice the appearance or historic character of the locality. 08 Before the commencement of any works in connection therewith, details of all render and brickwork detailing, including stringcourses, parapets, arches, chimneystacks, eaves, parapets, bays and steps, shall be submitted to and approved by the local planning authority together with details of external staircases, balconies, balustrading and metal windows. 08 REASON: To ensure that the external appearance of the buildings does not prejudice the appearance or historic character of the locality. 09 Prior to commencement of the development details of the provision of all telecommunication and televisual services to the dwellings and flats, all meter box or similar installations and all external flues or vents to dwellings or flats shall be submitted to and agreed in writing by the local planning authority and no satellite dishes, aerials, overhead wires, meter boxes, flues or vents shall be installed on the exterior of any building without the prior written consent of the local planning authority. 09 REASON: To ensure that the external appearance of the buildings does not prejudice the appearance or historic character of the locality. 10 Prior to commencement of the development, details of noise attenuation measures to protect dwellings from noise generated from the A28 shall be submitted to and approved by the local planning authority and such measures as are agreed shall be implemented prior to occupation of those dwelling affected. 10 REASON: In the interests of the amenities of the occupiers of those properties. 11 Before the development is commenced a scheme for the landscaping of the site to include the siting and specification of tree and shrub/hedgerow planting, seeding or turfing and the treatment of all hard surfaces within landscaped areas shall be submitted to and approved by the local planning authority. The landscaping scheme shall make provision for the phased landscaping of the site to relate to the phasing of the development, which shall be agreed in writing with the local planning authority. 11 REASON: To ensure that the site is adequately landscaped in the interests of the appearance of the locality. 12 All planting, seeding or turfing comprised in any phase of the approved landscaping scheme shall be carried out in the first planting and seeding seasons following the occupation of the buildings or the completion of the external fabric of the buildings in the relevant phase of the development, whichever is the sooner; and any trees or plants which are removed, die or become seriously damaged or diseased within five years of planting shall be replaced in the next planting season with others of similar size and species to those originally required to be planted. 12 REASON: To ensure that the site is adequately landscaped in the interests of the appearance of the locality. 13 Before the development is commenced details shall be submitted to the local planning authority for its approval showing all walls, fences, gates and railings proposed. No dwelling shall be occupied until such screen walls and/or fences as may be approved on its boundaries have been erected. 13 REASON: To ensure that the development does not prejudice the appearance or historic character of the locality and the protection of privacy of future occupiers. 14 Prior to commencement of the development a detailed ecological survey and assessment of the site, including a survey for the presence of bats and other protected species, including the river and the standing buildings shall be undertaken and forwarded to the local planning authority, together with a detailed mitigation strategy to safeguard floral and faunal interests during and after the construction process and a scheme for long term ecological management of the river, the riverbanks and other significant open areas of the site. 14 REASON: To safeguard natural habitats and the long term ecological interests of the river corridor. 15 No development shall take place until the applicant or the developer has secured the implementation of a programme of archaeological work and recording in accordance with a written scheme of investigation which has been submitted to and approved by the local planning authority in writing prior to the commencement of the development. The programme of archaeological work and recording shall include provision for recording standing buildings of historic interest. 15 REASON: To ensure a proper record of matters of archaeological interest. 16 The development shall incorporate provision for the positive venting of all residentially occupied structures to prevent the ingress of CO2 from the ground, as recommended by Messrs Ground Solutions Group Ltd in their Report of June 2000. 16 REASON: In the interests of the health and amenities of future occupiers of the properties. 17 Prior to the commencement of the development, details of all refuse disposal arrangements shall be submitted to and approved by the local planning authority and no dwelling shall be occupied until such time as the refuse disposal facilities appropriate to it have been provided. 17 REASON: In order to ensure adequate on-site refuse disposal facilities are provided. 18 Before the commencement of any works in connection therewith, details of all external lighting proposed to open areas, to the riverside, to streets, car parking areas and to dwellings or flats shall be submitted to and approved by the local planning authority. No external lighting shall be installed other than with the prior written permission of the local planning authority. 18 REASON: The protection of the special architectural and historic character of the area and to avoid unnecessary light pollution in the interests of local residents and wildlife. 19 During the period of construction work any facilities for the storage of oils, fuels or chemicals shall be sited on impervious bases and surrounded by impervious bund walls. The volume of any bunded compound shall be equivalent to the capacity of the largest tank (or connected tanks) within the bunded area plus 10%. All filling points, vents, gauges and sight glasses shall be sited within bunded areas and all filling points and tank overflow outlets shall be sited to discharge into bunded areas. All pipework associated with oils, fuels or chemicals shall be sited above ground level and protected against accidental damage. The drainage system of all bunded areas shall be sealed with no discharge to any land, watercourse or underground strata. 19 REASON: To protect the water environment against pollution. 20 Notwithstanding the provisions of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995, or any Order revoking and re-enacting that Order, no tank for the storage of oils, fuels or chemicals shall be sited in the curtilage of any dwelling without the specific grant of permission by the local planning authority and any tank shall be sited on an impervious base and bunded by an impervious wall. The volume of any bunded compound shall be not less than the capacity of the tank plus 10% and all filling points, overflow outlets, vents, gauges and sight glasses shall be sited within bunded areas. Associated pipework shall be sited above ground level and protected from accidental damage. All bunded areas shall be sealed with no discharge to any land, watercourse or underground strata. 20 REASON: To protect the water environment against pollution. 21 Prior to being discharged into any watercourse, surface water sewer or soakaway system, all surface water drainage from parking areas, roadways and hardstandings shall be passed through trapped gullies with an overall capacity compatible with the site being drained. 21 REASON: To protect the water environment against pollution. This decision has been made having regard to Policies in the 1996 Kent Structure Plan and the 1998 Canterbury District Local Plan and specifically policies ENV2, 6, 11 and 14 20, H3 and H7 of the Structure Plan and policies D1, 3 12, 16 21, 29, 30, 32, 33, 35, 37, 53 55, 58, 67, C1, 3 and 21 of the Local Plan. INFORMATIVE : This grant of permission is in respect of drawings series 4975AL (03) numbers 01, 02D, 03, 04, 05, 10, 11G, 12D, 14C, 15B, 16A, 17A, 18A, 21C, 22C, 24B, 26B, 41, 42B, 43B, 51A, 52B, 53A, 54A, 55A, 57, 58A, 61A, 62A, 63B, 64C, 71A, 72D, 73D, 81A and 82B except that unit 14 indicated on drawing 02D to the rear of units 9 13 is excluded, being deleted by letter dated 20 July 2001 notwithstanding that it is not deleted on drawings 02D, 21C, 22C and 24B.

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Appeal Received Date: This case has no appeals against it