Decision details

Full Application - Change of Use of The Lodge from C3 to C2 (care home for adults with autism and learning difficulties) and retention of access to serve The Lodge, Manchester Road, Hollow Meadows, Bradfield

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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:

Members had visited the site on the previous day.

 

The Officer stated that the application description had been amended to cover alterations to the outbuilding, clarified that the proposal was only retrospective in relation to the access and outbuilding alterations, that the Enforcement Notice served regarding the alleged change of use from a C3 dwelling to a C2 Care Home was in the process of being withdrawn and that the site lay within Bradfield Parish.  He also reported that Sheffield City Council Highways Department had no objection to the proposals and as the Council had not suggested any conditions he proposed conditions covering the following: C2 Use to use new access only, tarmacadam from highway to access gates, drainage, setting back gates 5m and maintenance of visibility splays.  He then reported that a further representation had been received from Knight Frank on behalf of the residents of Hollow Meadows Mews, which reiterated points already set out in the report and stated that they had sole ownership of the access shared with The Lodge.

 

The following made representations to the Committee under the Authority’s Public Participation Scheme:

 

·         Ms Megan Wilmot, Objector, on behalf of the Residents of Hollow Meadows Mews

·         Mr Cancello, representing the Applicant

 

Mr John Hunt, Agent, was present to answer Members’ questions if required.

 

The recommendation was moved and seconded. However, Members saw no need to relocate the driveway and proposed that condition 3 be omitted and that condition 4 be amended by adding the words “to the East of the drive” after the word “hedge” and omitting the rest of the sentence after the word “Lodge”. Also the word “new” was omitted from Condition 8.

 

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

 

RESOLVED:

 

That the application be APPROVED subject to the following conditions:

 

  1. Define use and maximum occupancy of the premises.

 

  1. Specify approved plans

 

  1. Submit and agree detailed landscaping scheme with maintenance plan for the reinstatement of the field boundary/hedge, to the east of the drive, and for landscaping to the car parking area in front of the Lodge.

 

  1. Submit and agree detailed lighting scheme for the whole site which shall be controlled by motion sensors.

 

  1. Agree parking plan/layout

 

  1. Specify design details for the annexe window/door alterations with implementation within 3 months or other agreed timetable.

 

  1. Submit and agree a traffic management plan promoting the use of the drive for all care home traffic, details internal signage to prevent visitors/staff using the shared access other than in emergencies.

 

  1. Submit and agree details of bin storage and dwell areas.

 

  1. Highway conditions including C2 use to be accessed solely via new drive tarmacadam from highway to access gates, drainage, setting back gates 5m and maintenance of visibility splays.

 

  1. Footnote regarding need for clear signage to indicate access to the Care Home shall be via the new drive only - to be subject to advertisement regulations.

 

 

 

Publication date: 12/05/2017

Date of decision: 12/05/2017

Decided at meeting: 12/05/2017 - Planning Committee

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