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Agenda item

Full Application - NP/DDD/0125/0011 - Change of use of the ground and lower floors of barn to create dwelling with ancillary accommodation/holiday let, internal and external works, creation of parking, works of hard and soft landscaping and access along with associated installation of a bat loft at Taddington Hall, Taddington.

Minutes:

P Brady left the room whilst this item was discussed and V Priestley, the Vice Chair of Planning Committee took the Chair for the duration of this item and item 9.

 

Item 8 was presented and discussed at the same time as item 9 but the votes were taken separately with the vote for Item 9 being taken first. The decisions for both Items 8 & 9 had been deferred by the Planning Committee on 18 July 2025 to allow for an improved design and discussion regarding glazing, parking arrangements and the installation of bat slates.

 

Some Members had previously visited the site.

 

The Officer presented the report and outlined the reasons for approval as detailed in the report.

 

The following spoke under the public participation at meetings scheme.

 

·         Caroline McIntyre, Agent

 

Officers and the Applicant were congratulated on working together to find an achievable solution. 

 

It was noted that there was no condition proposed for any kind of heritage recording, neither architectural nor archaeological, and Members expressed that they would like to see an additional condition to include this.

 

A motion to approve the application subject to the conditions below with an additional condition to include heritage recording (see condition 14), was proposed, seconded, put to the vote and carried.

 

RESOLVED:

 

That the application be APPROVED subject to the following conditions:

 

1.         Statutory 3 year time limit for implementation.

 

2.         Development to be carried out in accordance with amended plans.

 

3.         Submit and agree window and door details, including include any new/replacement heads and sills.

 

4.         Submit details of the excavated areas to the front of the lower ground floor windows and measures for draining those areas, replacement rainwater goods and additional pipework.

 

5.         Submit details of the surfacing of all hard-standing areas, the means of demarking the curtilage of the building with that of the Hall in the yard area without physical barriers and details of railings and gates.

 

6.         Submit details of the screening of the bin store/air source heat pump area.

 

7.         Provision of the parking spaces prior to occupation.

 

8.         Vegetation removal and dismantling of any structures to be outside bird nesting season.

 

9.         Bat habitat mitigation.

 

10.      Development carried out in accordance with the Ecology Report recommendations.

 

11.      Development carried out in accordance with reasonable avoidance measures with respect to Great Crested Newts.

 

12.      Submit details of the wildflower meadow and that this does not form part of the approved domestic curtilage.

 

13.      The holiday let shall remain ancillary to the approved dwelling house.

 

14.       No works to the building or development shall take place until a Written Scheme of Investigation for a programme of archaeological work, to include level 2/3 historic building recording and archaeological monitoring of groundworks, has been submitted to and approved by the National Park Authority in writing.

 

 

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