Agenda item

(Director of Planning and Economic Development) – To consider the attached report.

The Committee considered an application at Brookside Garage, Gravel Lane, Chigwell that had been referred by Area Planning Subcommittee South at its meeting on 29 February 2012. The Subcommittee had recommended that approval be granted as the site was well screened and therefore its impact on the Green Belt was not conspicuous and would not be visually harmful. The Committee consured with this view and considered suggested conditions proposed by officers and additional conditions relating to details of external finishes being approved; wheel washing facilities; suitable hours of construction being imposed and improvement to the site entrance thought required by the Highway Authority.

Resolved:

That planning application EPF/2300/11 be granted subject to the following conditions:

(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)        Notwithstanding the provisions of the Town & Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995 (or any order revoking and re-enacting that Order with or without modification), no further buildings or extensions to existing buildings shall be erected (other than those expressly authorised by this permission).

Reason: To safeguard the openness of this part of the Metropolitan Green Belt.

(3)        Within three months of the new building being erected, the existing workshop (shown cross-hatched on drawing no. JTS/7419/02) shall be demolished.

Reason: To safeguard the openness of this part of the Metropolitan Green Belt.

(4)        The maintenance and repair of vehicles, including works associated with undertaking MOT’s, shall not be undertaken in the open yard areas of the site as indicated as diagonally hatched on drawing no. JTS/7419/03.

Reason: The application has been submitted on this basis. The condition is in the interest of safeguarding the open character of this part of the Metropolitan Green Belt as well as the amenities of residents living in the vicinity of the site. 

(5)        No construction works above ground level shall have taken place until documentary and photographic details of the types and colours of the external finishes have been submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority, in writing, prior to the commencement of the development. The development shall be implemented in accordance with such approved details.

(6)        No development shall take place until wheel washing or other cleaning facilities for vehicles leaving the site during construction works have been installed in accordance with details which shall be submitted to and agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The approved installed cleaning facilities shall be used to clean vehicles immediately before leaving the site.

(7)        All construction/demolition works and ancillary operations, including vehicle movement on site which are audible at the boundary of noise sensitive premises, shall only take place between the hours of 07.30 to 18.30 Monday to Friday and 08.00 to 13.00 hours on Saturday, and at no time during Sundays and Public/Bank Holidays unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

(8)        Prior to commencement of development, the existing fencing at the front of the site shall be removed or  set back from the carriageway edge by a minimum of 2.4 metres.  Thereafter the 2.4m strip between the carriageway edge and the new fenceline shall remain clear of any obstruction to vision.