Agenda item

Variation of Conditions 2 (Approved Plans), 8 (Access), 10 (Vision Splays), 11 (Parking and Turning Areas), 13 (Off-site Highway Works) of application P18/S2795/FUL to incorporate the revised plans submitted to demonstrate the new proposed access from Horsepond Road.

Councillor Peter Dragonetti, the local ward councillor, stepped down from the committee and took no part in the debate or voting for this item.

The committee considered application P20/S0999/FUL for the variation of Conditions 2 (Approved Plans), 8 (Access), 10 (Vision Splays), 11 (Parking and Turning Areas), 13 (Off-site Highway Works) of application 18/S2795/FUL to incorporate the revised plans submitted to demonstrate the new proposed access from Horsepond Road at the Old Palm Tree Restaurant, Reading Road, Cane End .

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.

The planning officer reported that works on the site were at an advanced stage; the restaurant building had been demolished and six dwellings were being completed. There was now a proposal for a different location for the access, the previously approved vehicular access directly onto Reading Road (A4074) would be closed to vehicular traffic and the main entrance to the site would be via Horsepond Road. The old access would be closed and landscaped. The Oxfordshire County Council, the highways authority, had no objection to this proposal. The Committee concurred that the proposed access represented a much safer location from a highways safety perspective.

Mr T M Perchard, a representative of Kidmore End Parish Council, spoke to the application.

Councillor Peter Dragonetti, the local ward councillor, spoke to the application.

A motion moved and seconded, to grant planning permission was declared carried on being put to the vote.

RESOLVED: to grant planning permission for application P20/S0999/FUL subject to the following conditions:

1.    That the development hereby approved shall be carried out in accordance with the details shown on the approved plans, except as controlled or modified by conditions of this permission.

2.    The materials to be used in the external finish of the development hereby approved shall be in accordance with the details agreed under Discharge of Condition application reference P18/S2739/DIS.

3.    The approved landscaping scheme shall be implemented prior to the first occupation or use of the approved 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.

4.    The tree protection measures detailed in the approved Arboricultural Method Statement shall remain in place for the duration of development.

5.    The development shall be implemented strictly in accordance with the land contamination remedial strategy (Terramech Phase 1 & 2 Environmental & Geotechnical Investigation No 4044/18 Revision 1; 15 October 2018) approved under application reference P18/S2739/DIS.

6.    The development hereby permitted shall be implemented in accordance with the recommendations of the previous Bat Mitigation report. Any variation shall be agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority before such change is made.

7.    Prior to the first occupation of the development hereby permitted the proposed means of access onto Horsepond Road, is to be formed and laid out and constructed strictly in accordance with the local highway authority’s specifications and all ancillary works specified shall be undertaken.

8.    Before the proposed access is first used, the existing access onto the A4074 shall be permanently stopped up by the means of reinstatement of the highway verge and proposed planting to the approval of the Local Planning Authority and in accordance with the local highway authority's specifications. Thereafter the closed access shall not be used by any vehicular traffic whatsoever.

9.    The vision splays shown on the approved site access plan (18_86_627, A1) shall not be obstructed by any object, structure, planting or other material with a height exceeding or growing above 0.6 metres as measured from carriageway level

10.Prior to the first occupation of the development hereby approved, the parking and turning areas shall be provided in accordance with the approved site plan 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 vehicles associated with the development at all times.

11.The Construction Traffic Management Plan (Uxbridge Design,10th August 2018) approved under application reference P18/S2739/DIS shall be implemented prior to any works being carried out on site, and shall be maintained throughout the course of the development.

12.The off-site highway works shown on approved access plan or as otherwise agreed in writing with the Local Planning Authority shall be implemented in full before the first occupation/use of the development or in accordance with a programme of implementation agreed in writing with the Local Planning Authority.