Decision details

The Committee received an application for full planning permission.

 

The application sought approval for conversion and extension to create four new flats and one studio apartment.

 

The Planner corrected a typographical error in paragraph 8.23 of the Officer’s report:

 

The passage along the side of the house is narrow at 1m 1.2m in width but is considered adequate.

 

The Planner updated planning conditions:

       i.          An additional boundary treatment condition was proposed in response to documents submitted 1 November 2017.

     ii.          Referred to pre-committee amendments to the recommendation on the amendment sheet:

 

An additional condition and informative regarding surface water drainage are recommended following comments from the Sustainable Drainage Engineer.

 

17. No building hereby permitted shall be occupied until details of surface water drainage works have been submitted to and agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Surface water drainage will be implemented in accordance with these agreed details.

 

Reason: To ensure the development will not increase flood risk in the area in accordance with the National Planning Policy Framework (2012)

 

18. Informative: Before the details of the surface water drainage are submitted, an assessment shall be carried out of the potential for disposing of surface water by means of a sustainable drainage system in accordance with the principles set out in The National Planning Policy Framework and associated Guidance, and the results of the assessment provided to the local planning authority. The system should be designed such that there is no surcharging for a 1 in 30 year event and no internal property flooding for a 1 in 100 year event + 40% an allowance for climate change. The submitted details shall:

i. provide information about the design storm period and intensity, the method employed to delay and control the surface water discharged from the site and the measures taken to prevent pollution of the receiving groundwater and/or surface waters; and

ii. provide a management and maintenance plan for the lifetime of the development.

iii. The surface water drainage scheme shall be managed and maintained thereafter in accordance with the agreed details and management and maintenance plan.

 

The Committee received a representation in objection to the application from a resident of Milton Road.

 

The representation covered the following concerns:

       i.          Conversion of attractive family home into flats that would only be suitable for single people.

     ii.          Lack of amenity space.

   iii.          Passageway access.

   iv.          Glass screens on building not in-keeping with character of area.

    v.          Noise from building terraces would disturb neighbours.

   vi.          Plans did not make appropriate use of space.

 

The Committee:

 

Unanimously resolved to grant the application for planning permission in accordance with the officer recommendation, for the reasons set out in the officer report, and subject to the amended conditions recommended by the officers, with an additional condition relating to hard and soft landscaping to front boundary. See boundary condition wording below:

 

18. No development shall take place until full details of both hard and soft landscape works for the area to the front, including front boundary, have been submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority and these works shall be carried out as approved. These details include proposed finished levels or contours; means of enclosure; car parking layouts, other vehicle and pedestrian access and circulation area; hard surface materials; minor artefacts and structures (eg furniture, play equi8pment, refuse or other storage units, signs, lighting); proposed and existing functional services above ground level (eg drainage, power, communications cables, pipelines indicating lines, manholes, supports); retained historic landscape features and proposals for restoration, where relevant. Soft Landscape works shall include planting plans; written specifications (including cultivation and other operations associated with plant and grass establishment); schedules of plants, noting species, plant size and proposed numbers/densities where appropriate and an implementation programme. The works shall thereafter be implemented in accordance with the approved details.

 

Reason: In the interest of visual amenity and to ensure that suitable hard and soft landscape is provided as part of the development. (Cambridge Local Plan 2006 policies 3/4, 3/11 and 3/12).