Agenda item

15/03868/FUL - Maperton Stud, Maperton, Wincanton

Meeting of Area East Committee, Wednesday 13th January 2016 9.00 am (Item 161.)

Minutes:

Proposed change of use and conversion of former equestrian building to form 4 no. dwellings

The Planning Officer presented his report to the Committee with the aid of a powerpoint presentation. He informed Members that the barn conversion was designed to an adequate standard of design and materials and preserved the character of the conservation area and presented no overlooking issues for adjoining properties.

He pointed out to Members that although Somerset County Council Highways department had not raised any concern over the access and were happy that the proposal would not cause severe harm to local safety, there were local concerns over the access and highways.

He confirmed to Members that the applicant had agreed to make affordable housing contributions and that he was recommending that the application be approved as per his report.

Councillor William Wallace, Ward Member, noted that there was a large amount of objection from the local residents. He suggested that he would like to see a landscaping condition added together with conditions restricting fragmentation and further development of the site.

Following the discussion, it was proposed and seconded to approve the planning application as per the officer recommendation, subject to conditions.

On being put to the vote, the proposal was carried 7 votes in favour, 0 against with 2 abstentions.

RESOLVED:

That planning application 15/03868/FUL be approved as per the officer recommendation, subject to;

a) The prior completion of a section 106 agreement (in a form acceptable to the Council's solicitor(s)) before the decision notice granting planning permission is issued to:-

1) Secure a contribution of £40 per square metre of internal floor space towards the provision of affordable housing in the district.

b) The following conditions:

Justification

01. The proposal is considered to be acceptable in this location and, by reason of its size, scale and materials, respects the character of the area, and causes no demonstrable harm to residential amenity, visual amenity, protected species, or to highway safety in accordance with policies EQ2, EQ3, TA5, TA6, or EQ4 of the South Somerset Local Plan (Adopted April 2006) and the aims and provisions of the NPPF.

SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING:

01. The development hereby permitted shall be begun before the expiration of three years from the date of this permission.

Reason: To accord with the provisions of section 91(1) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.

02. The development hereby permitted shall be carried out in accordance with the following approved plans: HIL/MAP/14/04B and HIL/MAP/14/06A received 26 August 2015 and HIL/MAP/14/02D received 03 November 2015

Reason: For the avoidance of doubt and in the interests of proper planning.

03. No work shall be carried out on site until particulars of the following have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority:

a) details of materials (including the provision of samples where appropriate) to be used for the external walls and roofs;

b) a sample panel, to be prepared for inspection on site, to show the mortar mix and coursing of the external walls;

c) details of the recessing, materials and finish (including the provision of samples where appropriate) to be used for all new windows (including any rooflights) and doors;

d) details of all hardstanding and boundaries

e) details of the rainwater goods and eaves and fascia details and treatment.

Once approved such details shall be fully implemented unless agreed otherwise in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

Reason: In the interests of visual amenity and to comply with Policies EQ2 and EQ3 of the South Somerset Local Plan.

04. The development hereby permitted shall not be commenced until there has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority a scheme of landscaping, which shall include indications of all existing trees and hedgerows on the land, and details of any to be retained, together with measures for their protection in the course of the development, as well as details of any changes proposed in existing ground levels; all planting, seeding, turfing or earth moulding comprised in the approved details of landscaping shall be carried out in the first planting and seeding season following the occupation of the building or the completion of the development, whichever is the sooner; and any trees or plants which within a period of five years from the completion of the development die, are removed or become seriously damaged or diseased shall be replaced in the next planting season with others of similar size and species, unless the Local Planning Authority gives written consent to any variation.

Reason: In the interests of visual amenity and to comply with Policies EQ2 and EQ3 of the South Somerset Local Plan.

05. Before the dwelling hereby permitted is first occupied, the revised access over the first 5m of its length shall be properly consolidated and surfaced with tarmac unless the Local Planning Authority gives written consent to any variation.