Agenda item

Change of Use from B8 (Storage and Distribution) to D2 (Indoor Sports and Leisure) incorporating internal and external alterations (car parking redesigned, cycle stands amended, disabled access ramp and delivery door added and internal layout altered, as shown on amended plans and additional information received 23rd November 2018 and gym timetable submitted 17th January 2019, and provision of ramped fire exits as shown on amended plans received 8th February 2019).

Jeannette Matelot, a local ward councillor, stood down from the Committee for consideration of this item.

The committee considered application P18/S3531/FUL for Change of Use from B8 (Storage and Distribution) to D2 (Indoor Sports and Leisure), incorporating internal and external alterations (car parking redesigned, cycle stands amended, disabled access ramp and delivery door added and internal layout altered, as shown on amended plans and additional information received 23rd November 2018 and gym timetable submitted 17th January 2019, and provision of ramped fire exits as shown on amended plans received 8th February 2019) at Unit 3, Wenman Road, Thame.

Consultations, representations, policy and guidance and the site’s planning history were detailed in the officer’s report which formed part of the agenda pack for this meeting.

Councillor Mike Deacock spoke on behalf of Thame Town Council, objecting to the application.

Martin Shipperley, the applicant, spoke in support of the application.

Jeff Emmett, the applicant’s agent, spoke in support of the application.

Jeannette Matelot, a local ward councillor, spoke in support of the application.

A motion, moved and seconded, to approve the application was declared carried on being put to the vote. 

RESOLVED: to grant planning permission for application P18/S3531/FUL, subject to the following conditions:

1. Commence the development within three years.

2.  Development to be carried out in accordance with details shown on the following approved plans, PL-01, PL-06A, PL-07A, PL-03D, PL-02A, PL-05, PL-08A, and PL-04C, except as controlled or modified by conditions of this permission.

3. Prior to the first use, the external and internal alterations to the building shall be carried out in accordance with the approved plans and thereafter retained as approved.

4. Prior to the first use, the parking and turning areas shall be provided in accordance with the approved plan 1237/PL-07A and shall be constructed,  laid out, surfaced, drained and completed to be compliant with sustainable drainage (SuDS) principles, and shall be retained unobstructed except for the parking of staff or customer vehicles associated with the development at all times.

5. Cycle parking facilities shall be provided prior to the occupation of the development in accordance with the details shown on drawings 1237/PL-03D, 1237/PL-06A and 1237/PL-07A. Thereafter, the cycle parking shall be retained as approved.

6. Prior to the first use a scheme for the landscaping of the site, including the planting of live trees and shrubs, the treatment of the access road and hard standings, and the provision of boundary treatment shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority. The scheme shall be implemented prior to the first use of development and thereafter be maintained in accordance with the approved scheme. In the event of any of the trees or shrubs so planted dying or being seriously damaged or destroyed within 5 years of the completion of the development, a new tree or shrub or equivalent number of trees or shrubs, as the case may be, of a species first approved by the local planning authority, shall be planted and properly maintained in a position or positions first approved in writing by the local planning authority.

7. The hours of operation for the development shall be restricted top 6 am to 10 pm on all days.