Decision details

Full Application - Conversion of Barn to Local Needs Dwelling Adjacent to the B5056, Winster

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Decision Maker: Planning Committee

Decision status: APPROVED with S106 Agreement (Contrary to officer recommendations)

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Decisions:

Members had visited the site the previous day.

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

· Mr Craig Barks

This application was originally considered at the meeting of the Authority’s Planning Committee in October 2015. Notwithstanding an officer recommendation of refusal, a motion for approval of this application was moved and seconded, subject to conditions and prior entry into an appropriate legal agreement. The reasons stated by members in justifying an approval centred on the view that the provision of an appropriate landscaping scheme could mitigate the landscape and visual impact of the proposed development. The proposals were found to be compliant with policies in the Development Plan and policies in the National Planning Policy Framework in all other respects.

The scope for conditions mitigating landscape harm had already been considered by officers and therefore the fact that this scheme was recommended for refusal highlights the fundamental concerns more isolated barns such as this present in terms of the conservation objectives of the National Park. The fact that the objection on landscape grounds was the main and only objection does not diminish the seriousness of that objection given the statutory purposes of national park designation.

Amended plans had been received to include a large wall to conceal cars and waste bins from the view from the road.

A motion to restore the barn subject to a Section 106 agreement governing occupancy was moved, seconded, voted upon and carried.

RESOLVED:

That the application be approved subject to a s.106 legal agreement containing obligations relating to first occupancy, subsequent local occupancy restrictions and affordability, and subject to the following conditions:

Statutory Time Limit

The development hereby permitted shall be begun within 2 years from the date of this permission.

Approved Plans

The development hereby permitted shall not be carried out otherwise than in complete accordance with the following amended plans: Drawing No.s 7021-L-01; 1501-P1A; 1501-P5A;1501-P6B; 1501-P7B; 1501-P8; 1501-P9 and 1501-P10 (received by the National Park Authority on 3 November 2015) and Drawing No.s 1501- P11 and 1501- P11 (received by the National Park Authority on 6 November 2015)

Archaeology

No development shall take place until a Written Scheme of Investigation for historic building recording has been submitted to and approved by the local planning authority in writing, until all on-site elements of the approved scheme have been completed to the written satisfaction of the local planning authority, and until the provision to be made for analysis, reporting, publication and dissemination of the results and archive deposition has been secured.

The Written Scheme of Investigation shall include an assessment of significance and research questions; and

(i) the programme and methodology of site investigation and recording;

(ii) the programme and provision for post-investigation analysis and reporting;

(iii)provision to be made for publication and dissemination of the analysis and records of the site investigation;

(iv) provision to be made for archive deposition of the analysis and records of the site investigation; and

(v) nomination of a competent person or persons/organization to undertake the works set out within the Written Scheme of Investigation".

Ecology

No development shall take place until a scheme of mitigation measures for bats and birds has been submitted to and agreed in writing by the National Park Authority. Thereafter, the mitigation measures shall be carried out in complete accordance with the agreed scheme of mitigation prior to the first occupation of the dwelling hereby permitted.

Landscaping

All hard and soft landscape works shall be carried out in accordance with the approved plans. The works shall be carried out prior to the occupation of any part of the development or in accordance with a programme to be submitted and agreed in writing with the National Park Authority.

Conversion within Existing Shell

The conversion shall be carried out within the shell of the existing building

Underground Service Lines

All new service lines associated with the approved development, and on land with the applicant's ownership and control, shall be placed underground and the ground restored to its original condition thereafter.

Disposal of Foul Sewage

The package treatment plant show on Drawing No. 1501-P1A shall be installed in complete accordance with the approved plans prior to the first occupation of the dwelling hereby permitted.

Parking and Access

Prior to the first occupation of the dwelling hereby permitted, a specification or sample of the material to be used for the surfacing of the drive, parking and manoeuvring areas shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the National Park Authority.

Prior to the first occupation of the dwelling hereby permitted, the access, parking and turning areas shall be completed in accordance with the specifications approved under Condition 9 (above).

Residential Curtilage

Prior to the first occupation of the dwelling hereby permitted, the curtilage of the converted barn shall be defined with a drystone wall constructed in complete accordance with the approved plans in locally obtained natural stone, and the drystone wall shall be coursed and pointed to match the stonework of the existing boundary walls.

External Lighting

Unless otherwise agreed in writing by the National Park Authority, there shall be no external lighting and the converted building and associated curtilage shall not be provided with any other external source of illumination at any time during the lifetime of the development hereby approved.

Design Details and Architectural Specifications

All external windows and doors shall be of timber construction.

At the time of its installation, the external flue pipe shown on the approved plans shall be painted black.

All pipework, other than rainwater goods and the external flue pipe shown on the approved plans, shall be completely internal within the building.

The rainwater goods shall be cast metal, painted black. The gutters shall be fixed directly to the stonework with brackets and without the use of fascia boards. There shall be no projecting or exposed rafters.

The roof verges shall be flush cement pointed, with no barge boards or projecting timberwork.

The roof shall be clad with natural blues slates to match the existing slates in terms of size, texture and colour.

Permitted Development Rights

Notwithstanding the provisions of the Town and Country Planning General Permitted Development Order 1995 (or any order revoking or re-enacting that Order) no alterations to the external appearance of the converted building shall be carried out and no extensions, porches, sheds, or ancillary outbuildings shall be erected on the site without the National Park Authority's prior written consent.

Publication date: 07/01/2016

Date of decision: 11/12/2015

Decided at meeting: 11/12/2015 - Planning Committee

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