Agenda item

(Director of Governance) To consider the attached report for the proposed replacement of a perimeter fence with a 1.8m high chain-link fence; this is a revised application (DEV-006-2014/15).

The committee considered an application referred from Area Planning Subcommittee East from its meeting on 23 July 2014. The application sought the replacement of a perimeter fence with a 1.8 metre high chain link fence together with associated hedge planting. The application had been referred with a recommendation of refusal on visual amenity grounds.

The committee heard from an objector and the applicants agent.

The Committee noted that the Council were unable to impose a condition on the current application to require the fencing of the residential curtilage of the property as the permission relating to that requirement was not being implemented.

The Committee expressed concern that laurel formed part of the hedge planting proposed and sought the agreement of the applicants agent to remove this from the planting scheme notwithstanding the scheme of landscaping on the application plans. It was agreed that a condition relating to the approval of the landscaping be imposed.

The committee voted of the proposed refusal which was lost and then proceeded to approve the application subject to the originally proposed conditions and an additional condition relating to the planning scheme.

Resolved:

That, subject to the following conditions, planning application EPF/0670/14 at Oak Hill Farm, Theydon Bois be granted:

(1)        The development hereby permitted must be begun not later than the expiration of three years beginning with the date of this notice.

Reason: To comply with the requirements of Section 91 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended).

(2)        Subject to condition 4 below, the development hereby permitted will be completed strictly in accordance with the approved drawings nos: ESB PF 002 rev C, ESB PF 005 rev A and ESB PF 010

Reason: To ensure the proposal is built in accordance with the approved drawings.

(3)        No development, including works of demolition or site clearance, shall take place until a Tree Protection Plan Arboricultural Method Statement and site monitoring schedule in accordance with BS:5837:2012 (Trees in relation to design, demolition and construction - recommendations) has been submitted to the Local Planning Authority and approved in writing. The development shall be carried out only in accordance with the approved documents unless the Local Planning Authority gives its written consent to any variation.

Reason:- To comply with the duties indicated in Section 197 of the Town & Country Planning Act 1990 so as to ensure that the amenity value of the existing trees are safeguarded, in accordance with the guidance contained within the National Planning Policy Framework and policy LL10 of the adopted Local Plan and Alterations.

(4)        Notwithstanding the planting details shown on drawing number ESB PF 002 rev C, the perimeter fence hereby approved shall not take place until a scheme of soft landscaping and a statement of the methods, including a timetable, for its Implementation (linked to the development schedule), have been submitted to the Local Planning Authority and approved in writing. The landscape scheme shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details and the agreed timetable. If any plant dies, becomes diseased or fails to thrive within a period of 5 years from the date of planting, or is removed, uprooted or destroyed, it must be replaced by another plant of the same kind and size and at the same place, unless the Local Planning Authority agrees to a variation beforehand in writing.

Reason:- To comply with the duties indicated in Section 197 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 so as to ensure that the details of the development of the landscaping are complementary, and to ensure a satisfactory appearance to the development, in accordance with the guidance contained within the National Planning Policy Framework and policy LL11 of the adopted Local Plan and Alterations.