Decision details

Outline Application - Construction of new employment building, associated landscaping operations and access improvements, Backdale Quarry, Hassop Road, Hassop

Decision Maker: Planning Committee

Decision status: APPROVED (Contrary to officer recommendation)

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Decisions:

Members had visited the site on the previous day.

 

The Officer confirmed that this was an outline application and therefore no detailed plans were available.  Following discussions between the applicant and Officers the size of the proposed building had been reduced, there were no sustainable reasons for refusal on highways grounds and no major landscape impact therefore Officers recommended approval.

The following spoke under the Public Participation at Meetings Scheme:

  • Barry Anderton, Objector
  • Mr Church, Agent

 

Members requested a change to condition 6 to remove the wording ‘associated with the use of the building’, Officers agreed to this change.

 

Members discussed the relocation of the building to increase screening from the road, location of the building in relation to the lawful development certificate, demolition of the current building and the timing of that demolition. 

 

The officer recommendation to approve the application subject to the following changes to the conditions was moved, seconded, put to the vote and carried:

 

·         Detailed siting of the building within the site.

·         Condition 4 (i) at top of page 3 shall include the wording ‘clearance works to include timing of removal’.

·         Additional condition – ‘no work on the new building shall take place prior to the demolition of the existing industrial building, subject to condition 4 above’.

·         Changes to condition 6 as stated above.

 

Further discussions between the Officer and the applicant will take place prior to the submission of the reserved matters application regarding the location of the new building with a view to minimising the visual impact.

 

RESOLVED:

 

That the application be APPROVED subject to the following conditions:

 

1.

 

The development hereby permitted shall be carried out in accordance with Drawing No. CL.206312.106 Revision A received by the National Park Authority on 11 August 2016 subject to the following conditions or modifications:

 

2.

Prior to the commencement of any part of the development hereby permitted, approval of Reserved Matters relating to the following details shall be obtained from the National Park Authority:

 

 

i.      The layout of the proposed development (including parking and manoeuvring areas)

 

 

ii.    The design and external appearance of the proposed development (including materials and external finishes)

 

 

iii.   Landscaping treatment of the site which shall not be in conflict with, or seek to amend the requirements of the scheme on ‘Plan 2’ attached to the Prohibition Order  (including the retention of existing trees, boundary treatments and precise details of any planting schemes and surfacing materials)

 

 

All such applications shall be made within three years of the date of this permission. Thereafter, the development shall be carried out as approved and begun three years from the date of this permission, or two years from final approval of all Reserved Matters, whichever is the later.

 

3.

The detailed scheme shall provide for a single building with a maximum ridge height of 12 metres above the adjacent ground levels and a maximum floor area of 1000m² (measured externally), the design of which shall closely reflect the appearance of a modern portal framed agricultural building in terms of form, detailed design and materials including the provision of timber cladding above a stone plinth for the external walls of the building and a profile sheeted roof factory coloured dark slate blue.

 

4.

No development shall take place, including any works of demolition, until a Construction Method Statement has been submitted to, and approved in writing by, the local planning authority. The approved Statement shall be adhered to throughout the construction period. The Statement shall provide for:

 

 

i.      the parking of vehicles of site operatives and visitors

ii.    loading and unloading of plant and materials

iii.   storage of plant and materials used in constructing the development

iv.   the erection and maintenance of security hoarding

v.    wheel washing facilities

vi.   measures to control the emission of dust and dirt during construction

vii.  a scheme for recycling/disposing of waste resulting from demolition and construction works

 

 

The Statement shall also include precise details of:

 

 

i.      site clearance works to include timing of removal and a schedule of all items within the area covered by the pre-existing Certificate of lawful Use to be removed or demolished;

ii.    all earthworks associated with the construction of the building hereby permitted

iii.   mitigation measures to avoid disturbance or harm to reptiles and birds

iv.   connections to services and means of foul water disposal

v.    external lighting (including details of luminosity)

vi.   a watching brief (with regard to safeguarding fossil remains) unless otherwise agreed in writing by the National Park Authority in liaison with Natural England

 

5.

No work on the new building shall take place prior to the demolition of the existing industrial building, subject to condition 4 above.

6.

The building hereby permitted shall not be taken into use until the means of vehicular access has been constructed and completed in accordance with plans to be first submitted to and agreed in writing by the National Park Authority. The said means of vehicular access shall thereafter be retained for access purposes only and the approved visibility splays shall be maintained free of any obstruction to their designated purpose throughout the lifetime of the development hereby permitted.

 

7.

The building hereby permitted shall not be taken into use untila bin store, and area/facilities allocated for storing of other waste and recyclable materials have been completed in accordance with plans to be first submitted to and agreed in writing by the National Park Authority. Thereafter, there shall be no outdoor storage of any items anywhere on the land hereby permitted other than in the areas designated for bin storage and storage of other waste and recyclable materials. 

 

8.

The amended Travel Plan shall be implemented on the commencement of the use of the building hereby permitted and thereafter, the occupier of the building shall submit a monitoring and evaluation report to the National Park Authority, which assesses compliance with the Travel Plan, on each anniversary of the commencement of the use of the building for the following five years. Any recommendations made in the reports submitted to the National Park Authority shall be implemented in the following year subject to the written agreement of the National Park Authority and any recommendations made by the Authority in the event of traffic movements from the development demonstrably having a severe impact on the local road network shall be implemented by the occupier of the building within three months of notification of these recommendations by the Authority.

      

9.

The restoration of the quarry outside of the area covered by the pre-existing Certificate of Lawful Use shall be carried out in complete accordance with the restoration scheme approved under the Prohibition Order other than in respects of any minor works expressly consented by the National Park Authority in pursuance of the discharge any of the above conditions.

 

10.

Notwithstanding the provisions of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (or any Order revoking and/or re-enacting that Order) the building hereby permitted shall only be used for employment purposes associated with a use falling within B1, B2 or B8 of the Schedule to the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987 or any provision equivalent to that Class in any Statutory Instrument revoking and/or re-enacting that Order) and for no other purposes at any time during the lifetime of the development hereby permitted.

 

11.       Roadside trees to be retained as part of the site landscaping.

 

The meeting was adjourned from 11.00 to 11.05 following consideration of this item

 

Cllr Patrick Brady joined the meeting at 10.35 but took no part in the discussion or voting on this item.

 

Publication date: 04/10/2016

Date of decision: 09/09/2016

Decided at meeting: 09/09/2016 - Planning Committee

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