Issue - meetings

The Committee received an application for full planning permission.

The application sought approval for the sub-division of the existing site to build new one and a half storey 2-bed detached dwelling to the rear, and bike store.

The Committee received a representation in objection to the application from a local resident.

The representation covered the following issues:

       i.          Local residents do not feel they had the chance to respond to the application due to very limited advertising of the plans.

     ii.          Development would increase parking pressure.

   iii.          Building on a blind corner would endanger local children on their way to school.

   iv.          A single storey unit would be more appropriate.

    v.          Building could be located further back in the site.

Chris Todd (Applicant’s Agent) addressed the Committee in support of the application.

Councillor Thornburrow proposed a boundary treatment condition regarding low level planning and landscaping should be added to the Officer’s recommendation, which was carried unanimously.

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’s report, and subject to the conditions recommended by the Officer and subject to two additional conditions relating to (1) hard and soft landscape and (2) boundary treatment, as follows:

14 No development above ground level, other than demolition, shall commence until full details of both hard and soft landscape works have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The works shall be carried out as approved.  These details shall include proposed planting to the front of the property to provide defensible space. The planting adjacent to the northern elevation shall be kept at a low level to ensure it does not restrict visibility of the footway. 

All hard and soft landscape works shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details.  The works shall be carried out prior to the occupation of any part of the development or in accordance with a programme agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The maintenance shall be carried out in accordance with the approved schedule. Any trees or plants that, within a period of five years after planting, are removed, die or become in the opinion of the Local Planning Authority, seriously damaged or defective, shall be replaced as soon as is reasonably practicable with others of species, size and number as originally approved, unless the Local Planning Authority gives its written consent to any variation.

Reason: In the interests of visual amenity and to ensure that suitable hard and soft landscape is provided as part of the development. (Cambridge Local Plan 2018 policies 55, 57 and 59)

15. No development above ground level, other than demolition, shall commence until there has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority a plan indicating the positions, design, materials and type of boundary treatments to be erected. Boundary treatments to adjoining gardens should include sufficient gaps (150mm X 150mm) to allow access for hedgehogs.   The boundary treatment shall be completed in accordance with the approved details prior to the first occupation or the bringing into use of the development (or other timetable agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority) and retained as approved thereafter.

Reason: To ensure an appropriate boundary treatment is implemented in the interests of visual amenity and privacy (Cambridge Local Plan 2018 policies 55, 57 and 59).