Agenda item

APPLICATION No:

EPF/0161/21

SITE ADDRESS:

Cedar Lodge

Mott Street

Waltham Abbey

E4 7RW

PARISH:

Waltham Abbey

WARD:

Waltham Abbey High Beach

DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSAL:

Demolition of existing structures, alterations to existing vehicular access, retention of existing dwelling, Construction of one detached four bedroom house and provision of associated parking and landscaping.

DECISION:

Grant Permission (With Conditions)

1

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

2

The development hereby permitted shall be carried out and retained strictly in accordance with the following approved plans: TS19-157-1, 2833.2, 2833.3, 2833.4, 2833.5, 2833.9, 2833.10, 2833.12B, 2833.13A and 2833.16.

3

Prior to preliminary ground works taking place, details of foul & surface water disposal shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The development shall be implemented in accordance with the approved details, and shall be provided on site prior to the first occupation and shall be retained for the lifetime of the development.

4

No preliminary ground works shall take place until a programme of archaeological trial trenching and excavation has been secured and undertaken in accordance with a written scheme of investigation which has been submitted to and approved by the planning authority, in writing, and the development shall be carried out strictly in accordance with the approved scheme and programme.

5

No development shall commence until an assessment of the risks posed by any contamination, carried out in accordance with British Standard BS 10175: Investigation of potentially contaminated sites - Code of Practice and the Environment Agency's Model Procedures for the Management of Land Contamination (CLR 11) (or equivalent British Standard and Model Procedures if replaced), shall have been submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority. If any contamination is found, a report specifying the measures to be taken, including the timescale, to remediate the site to render it suitable for the approved development shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority. The site shall be remediated in accordance with the approved measures and timescale and a verification report shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority. If, during the course of development, any contamination is found which has not been previously identified, work shall be suspended and additional measures for its remediation shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority. The remediation of the site shall incorporate the approved additional measures and a verification report for all the remediation works shall be submitted to the local planning authority within 21 days of the report being completed and approved in writing by the local planning authority.

6

For the trees shown to be retained, no development, including works of demolition or site clearance, shall take place until Tree Protection (in accordance with BS:5837:2012 (Trees in relation to design, demolition and construction - Recommendations) has been installed at the edge of the calculated rooting area as shown on The Tree Bureau ‘Tree Constraints Plan’ drawing number TCP7600 dated 21st December 2020. It shall be retained throughout development activities unless agreed otherwise with the Local Planning Authority.

7

No ground works shall take place until details of levels have been submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority showing cross-sections and elevations of the levels of the site prior to development and the proposed levels of all ground floor slabs of buildings, roadways and accessways and landscaped areas. The development shall be carried out in accordance with those approved details.

8

No construction works above ground level shall take place until (documentary and photographic) details of the type and colours of the external finishes of the development have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The development shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details.

9

Hard and soft landscaping shall be implemented as shown on The Tree Bureau ‘structural landscape plan’ drawing number LAND7600 dated 21st December 2020 and the accompanying planting schedule unless the Local Planning Authority gives its prior written approval to any alterations. If within a period of five years from the date of the planting or establishment of any tree, or shrub or plant, that tree, shrub, or plant or any replacement is removed, uprooted or destroyed or dies or becomes seriously damaged or defective another tree or shrub, or plant of the same species and size as that originally planted shall be planted at the same place, unless the Local Planning Authority gives its written consent to any variation.

10

Following completion of the measures identified in the approved remediation scheme, and prior to the first use or occupation of the development, a verification report that demonstrates the effectiveness of the remediation carried out must be produced together with any necessary monitoring and maintenance programme and copies of any waste transfer notes relating to exported and imported soils shall be submitted to the Local Planning Authority for approval. The approved monitoring and maintenance programme shall be implemented. 

11

In the event that any evidence of potential contamination is found at any time when carrying out the approved development that was not previously identified in the Phase 2 report, work shall be suspended and additional measures for its remediation shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority. The remediation of the site shall incorporate the approved additional measures and a verification report for all the remediation works shall be submitted to the local planning authority within 21 days of the report being completed and approved in writing by the local planning authority.

12

The building hereby permitted shall not be occupied until the window(s) in the flank elevation(s) at first floor level and above, have been fitted with obscure glass with a minimum privacy level 3 obscurity, and no part of that/those window[s] that is less than 1.7 metres above the internal floor level of the room in which it is installed shall be capable of being opened. Once installed the obscure glass shall be retained thereafter.

13

Prior to first occupation of the development hereby approved, 1 Electric Vehicle Charging Point for each dwelling, shall be installed and retained thereafter for use by the occupants of the site.

14

Prior to first occupation of the development, measures shall be incorporated within the development to ensure a water efficiency standard of 110 litres (or less) per person per day.

15

Prior to first occupation of the development, the recommendations as set out in the Ecological Survey by John Dobson - Essex Mammal Surveys  (dated April 2019) shall be implemented in full and retained as such.

16

Prior to first occupation of the building hereby permitted, the buildings/extensions shown to be demolished on the approved plans, shall be removed from the site.

17

Prior to the first occupation of the development the access arrangements, vehicle parking and turning areas as indicated on the approved plans shall be provided, hard surfaced, sealed and marked out. The access, parking and turning areas shall be retained in perpetuity for their intended purpose.

18

No unbound material shall be used in the surface treatment of the vehicular access within 6 metres of the highway boundary.

19

There shall be no discharge of surface water onto the Highway.

20

Wheel washing or other cleaning facilities for vehicles leaving the site during construction works shall be installed and utilised to clean vehicles immediately before leaving the site. Any mud or other material deposited on nearby roads as a result of the development shall be removed.

21

No deliveries, external running of plant and equipment or demolition and construction works, other than internal works not audible outside the site boundary, shall take place on the site other than between the hours of 07:30 to 18:00 on Monday to Friday and 08:00 to 13:00 on Saturday and not at all on Sundays, Public or Bank Holidays without the prior written permission of the Local Planning Authority

22

Notwithstanding the provisions of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015 (as amended) (or any other order revoking and re-enacting that order) no development permitted by virtue of Classes A & E of Part 1 to schedule 2 shall be undertaken.

23

Notwithstanding the provisions of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) (or any order revoking and re-enacting that Order with or without modification), no fences, gates or walls shall be erected within the curtilage of any dwellinghouse forward of any wall of that dwellinghouse which fronts onto a road.

24

All material excavated from the below ground works hereby approved shall be removed from the site unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority.