Decision details

Full Application - Construction of Horse Exercise Arena at Land Immediately Adjacent to Ford House, Ford, Chapel-en-le-Frith

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Decision Maker: Planning Committee

Decision status: APPROVED (In accordance with officer recommendation with additional or amended condition(s))

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Decisions:

The Chair brought the item forward to the beginning of the agenda as it had been delayed in being heard at the June meeting.

 

The Director of Planning reported that following deferral for a site visit at the last meeting, Members had visited the site the previous day. He confirmed that the proposed use was solely private and not commercial.

 

The following spoke under the Authority’s Public Participation Scheme:

 

·         Mr D Purdon, Objector

·         Mr N Marriott, Agent

 

Following Member debate and questions, amendments to the recommendation were proposed:

 

Condition 2 – include explicit details of arboricultural methodology

Condition 3 – further detail to be added re landscaping of the south-west embankment to include additional planting

Condition 6 – amend the wording to say “no horse jumps, field shelters or other structures shall be placed on the application site, other than when the exercise area is in use. When not in use, they shall be removed and stored in a location to be agreed.”

Additional Condition 8 – That samples of surface materials be submitted for assessment of their appearance and drainage capabilities, prior to use at the site.

 

The recommendation as amended was moved, seconded, put to the vote and carried.

 

RESOLVED:

 

That the application is APPROVED subject to the following conditions:

 

1.

Statutory three year time limit for implementation.

 

2.

Development to be carried out in accordance with specified approved plans and arboriculture survey. Specific details of the arboricultural methodology to be included.

 

3.

Landscaping to be carried out in complete accordance with the approved plans within the first planting season following completion of the development, further detail to be submitted re landscaping of the south-west embankment to include additional planting

 

4.

The use of the manége hereby permitted shall be ancillary to the domestic use of the dwelling known as “Ford House” only. The manége shall not otherwise be used for commercial purposes or livery at any time.

 

5.

The new timber fencing and kickboards shall be tanalised and left untreated to weather naturally and maintained as such throughout the lifetime of the development hereby approved.

 

6.

Notwithstanding the provisions of the General Permitted Development Order 2015 (or any order revoking and re-enacting that Order with or without modification), no horse jumps, field shelters or other structures shall be placed on the application site, other than when the exercise area is in use. When not in use, they shall be removed and stored in a location to be agreed.

 

7.

There shall be no external lighting or floodlighting erected, and the manége shall not be provided with any other external source of illumination at any time.

 

8.

Samples of surface materials shall be submitted for assessment of their appearance and drainage capabilities, prior to use at the site.

 

Publication date: 10/07/2015

Date of decision: 10/07/2015

Decided at meeting: 10/07/2015 - Planning Committee

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