Agenda item

Full Application - Erection of an Affordable Dwelling to Meet a Local Need at Green Farm, Aldwark

Minutes:

This application had been deferred at the Planning Committee of 9 October 2015 in accordance with Standing Orders, which state:

 

1.48:

 

(1)                Where following consideration of any matter a Committee or a Sub-Committee is proposing to make a decision which would be a departure from Policy and/or the Officer recommendation (other than minor acceptable exceptions), final determination of the matter shall be deferred until the next meeting of the Committee or Sub-Committee. During the deferment, the relevant officers will prepare a further report for the Committee or Sub-Committee on their provisional views for consideration at the next meeting. The officers’ report will cover:

 

                                                           i.        the policy implications e.g. whether the decision is a major departure from the development plan or other key policy

                                                          ii.        the budget implications

                                                         iii.        a risk assessment

                                                         iv.        an assessment of the robustness of the provisional reasons, including recommendations on any conditions

 

(2)                The Senior Manager advising a Committee or Sub-Committee shall, through the Chair of the meeting, inform the meeting either before or immediately after a vote is taken that this Standing Order applies to that decision and that only a recommendation to a future meeting of the Committee or Sub-Committee can be made at that time.

 

The officer stated that the Authority’s Policy Team did not agree with the term “acceptable exception” in the concluding paragraph of the report and considered that approval of the application would be a departure from the Authority’s Planning Policy.

 

The Director of Planning noted that all applications approved contrary to policy were logged and monitored through the Annual Monitoring Report to inform any future review of policy.

 

Amended plans had been submitted showing the single chimney centrally placed on the roof of the proposed dwelling. The officer updated the wording of condition 2 by replacing the word “amended” with “submitted”. He confirmed that Aldwark is not a named settlement in the Authority’s Core Strategy Development Plan, therefore should the affordable dwelling become available in the future, suitable occupants would be sought from neighbouring settlements/parishes in a cascade process. The officer stated that the proposed dwelling would have a separate curtilage and not be tied to the farm.

 

The recommendation with the amended wording in condition 2 was moved, seconded, voted upon and carried.

 

RESOLVED:

 

That the revised application be APPROVED subject to prior entry into a s.106 legal agreement that would maintain the proposed house as an affordable house to meet local need in perpetuity naming the applicant as the intended first occupant and subject to the following conditions/modifications: 

 
  1. The development hereby permitted shall be commenced within two years of the date of the permission.

 
  1. The development hereby permitted shall not be carried out otherwise in complete accordance with submitted elevation plans and the submitted block plans subject to the following conditions:

 
  1. No development shall take place until a written scheme of investigation (WSI) for archaeological work has been submitted to and approved by the National Park Authority in writing. For land that is included within the WSI, no development shall take place other than in accordance with the agreed WSI, which shall include the statement of significance and research objectives; and:

 

(i) The programme and methodology of site investigation and recording and the nomination of a competent person(s) or organisation to undertake the agreed works

 

(ii) The programme for post-investigation assessment and subsequent analysis, publication and dissemination and deposition of resulting material. This part of the condition shall not be discharged until these elements have been fulfilled in accordance with the programme set out in the WSI.

 
  1. No development shall take place until a landscaping scheme has been submitted to and agreed in writing by the National Park Authority. The submitted scheme shall include: (i) details of all trees to be retained and protection for those trees during the construction phase of the proposed development; (ii) precise details of all hard and soft landscaping including details of any seeding or planting, surfacing materials and boundary treatments; (iii) precise details of the provision and undergrounding of services; and (iv) precise details of parking provision within the site curtilage. Thereafter, the proposed development shall be carried out in complete accordance with the approved landscaping scheme, which shall be completed prior to the first occupation of the dwelling hereby permitted.

 
  1. No works shall commence on the erection of the newly-built dwelling hereby permitted until samples of the materials to be used in the construction of the external surfaces of the dwelling, including a sample panel of the stonework for the external walls, sample of the stone, quoins, sills, lintels, and surrounds to be used in the construction of the external walls, samples of all roof coverings and rain water goods, and samples of all external door and window frames, have been submitted to and approved in writing by the National Park Authority. Thereafter, the development shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details.

 
  1. Notwithstanding the provisions of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995 (or any order revoking, re-enacting or modifying that Order), no ancillary outbuildings or other structures incidental to the enjoyment of the dwelling shall be erected.

 
  1. Notwithstanding the provisions of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995 (or any order revoking, re-enacting or modifying that Order), no extensions or alterations to the newly-built dwelling shall be carried out.

 

 

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