Agenda item

This item had been deferred for a second time at the July 2015 Planning Committee to allow for the provision of further information about the structural condition of the building. The Authority had therefore appointed a qualified and independent surveyor to carry out a survey, whose conclusions had been incorporated into the report.

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

·         Mr Joe Oldfield, Agent

A motion to approve the application subject to a section 106 agreement and conditions was moved, seconded, put to the vote and carried. In moving the motion it was suggested that the proposal to depart from the Officer recommendation was appropriate to retain the redundant and deteriorating agricultural building which, although falling short of the criteria for listing, was an attractive vernacular building of some architectural merit and prominent in the landscape.

RESOLVED:

To APPROVE the application subject to prior entry into a S106 legal agreement to prevent the erection of any development including buildings, hard standings or fencing on adjoining fields and subject to the following planning conditions:

1.         Statutory three year time limit for implementation.

2.         Approval and adoption of amended plans,

3.         Conversion to be within the shell of the building only with no re-building.

4.         Submit and agree joinery details including details on whether the vent slots are to be blocked or glazed,

5.         Conditions to specify and/or approve design details and architectural specifications including timber windows and doors and finish, stonework and pointing, stone slate roof, finish of flue, pipework, roof verges and rainwater goods.

6.         Submit and agree position of meter boxes,

7.         All new service lines to be placed underground on land under the applicants control and the ground restored to its original condition thereafter.

8.         Submit and agree means of foul sewerage before commencing development,

9.         Submit and agree enhancement scheme for the pond,

10.       Photographic and archaeological record,

11.       No development shall commence until a detailed scheme of landscaping including the access track, hard standings, earth mounding, walls, fences and other means of enclosure have been submitted to and approved in writing by the National Park Authority. The development shall then not be carried out other than in accordance with the approved details.

12.       Submit and agree lighting scheme,

13.       Submit and agree details of any flues or chimneys,

14.       Parking areas to be laid out and constructed prior to first occupation and maintained throughout lifetime of the development.

15.       Maintain adjoining store as an unheated external storage space.

16.       Remove permitted development rights from the converted building for satellite dishes, extensions, alterations, outbuildings and gates, walls and fences.

The meeting was adjourned from 11.35am to 11.45am following consideration of this item.