Issue - meetings

The Committee received an application for full planning permission.

The application sought approval for the erection of a new two storey dwelling.

Councillor Tunnacliffe proposed and Councillor Thornburrow seconded an additional landscaping condition to restrict car parking.

The amendment was carried unanimously.

The Committee:

Unanimously resolved (by all present) 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 conditions recommended by the officers with three additional conditions:

17.     Prior to the occupation of the development, a landscape scheme to prevent off-street car parking outside the new dwelling, shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The approved landscape scheme shall be installed prior to occupation of the new dwelling. The landscape scheme shall be retained in perpetuity.

    Reason: in the interest of visual amenity (Cambridge Local Plan 2018 policies 55 and 61)

18.     Prior to occupation of the development, a plan indicating the positions, design, materials and type of boundary treatments to be erected shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority 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 and to ensure it allows movement of hedgehogs (Cambridge Local Plan 2018 policies 55, 57, 59 and 70).

19      Prior to the occupation of the dwelling, a plan shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority detailing the proposed specification, number and locations of internal and / or external bird boxes on the new building. The bird boxes shall be installed prior to the occupation of the new dwelling and subsequently maintained in accordance with the approved plans.

                    Reason: to provide ecological enhancements for protected species on the site (Cambridge Local Plan (2018) policy 70).