Agenda item

APPLICATION No:

EPF/0040/18

SITE ADDRESS:

Parish Church of St Mary & All Saints

Church Lane

Lambourne

Essex

RM4 1AH

PARISH:

Lambourne

WARD:

Lambourne

DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSAL:

The proposal is to build a new Church and Community Centre on a site adjacent to the Church grounds to provide space for activity rooms, event spaces, Church ancillary facilities and rooms for prayer and reflection. A new path to be carefully routed through the existing graveyard is proposed to link the new Church Centre to the Church and will be the subject of a separate Faculty application. Landscaping works and parking are provided within the proposed site.

DECISION:

Grant Permission (With Conditions)

1

The development hereby permitted shall be begun before the expiration of three years from the date of this permission.

2

The development hereby permitted shall be carried out and retained strictly in accordance with the following approved plans: P100, P101, P102, P110, P111, P112, P120, P121, P122, P123. P200B, P210B, P202B, P210B, P211B, P212B, P220B, P221B, P222B, P223B. P300B, P301B, P310B, and Location Plan.

3

No preliminary ground works shall take place until a written scheme and programme of archaeological investigation has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority, and the development shall be carried out strictly in accordance with the approved scheme and programme.

4

Prior to preliminary ground works taking place, details of foul and 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.

5

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.

6

Samples of the types and details of colours of all the external finishes shall be submitted for approval in writing by the Local Planning Authority prior to the commencement of the development, and the development shall be implemented in accordance with such approved detail.

7

Additional drawings that show details of proposed new [windows, doors, rooflights, eaves, verges, fascias, cills, structural openings and junctions with the existing building - add/delete as appropriate], by section and elevation at scales between 1:20 and 1:1 as appropriate, shall be submitted to and approved by the LPA in writing prior to the commencement of any works.

8

Prior to commencement of development, details of screen walls, fences or other means of enclosure shall be agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority, and shall be erected and thereafter maintained in the agreed positions before the first occupation of any of the dwellings hereby approved.

9

Prior to any above ground works, full details of both hard and soft landscape works (including tree planting) and implementation programme (linked to the development schedule) shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. All hard and soft landscape works shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details. The works shall be carried out prior to the occupation of the building or completion of the development, whichever is the sooner. The hard landscaping details shall include, as appropriate, and in addition to details of existing features to be retained: proposed finished levels or contours; car parking layouts; other minor artefacts and structures, including signs and lighting and functional services above and below ground. The details of soft landscape works shall include plans for planting or establishment by any means and full written specifications and schedules of plants, including species, plant sizes and proposed numbers /densities where appropriate. 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.

10

Prior to first occupation of the development, a scheme to enhance the ecological value of the site shall be submitted to and agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The ecological value shall be quantified using the Biodiversity Impact Assessment Calculator (BIAC) where appropriate. The scheme shall be implemented in full prior to the occupation of the development hereby approved.

11

No services shall be installed within the root protection area of any retained tree / hedge unless the Local Planning Authority gives its prior written approval by way of an appropriate planning application.

12

If any tree, shrub or hedge shown to be retained in the submitted Arboricultural reports is removed, uprooted or destroyed, dies, or becomes severely damaged or diseased during development activities or within 3 years of the completion of the development, another tree, shrub or hedge of the same size and species shall be planted within 3 months at the same place. If within a period of five years from the date of planting any replacement tree, shrub or hedge is removed, uprooted or destroyed, or dies or becomes seriously damaged or defective another tree, shrub or hedge of the same species and size as that originally planted shall, within 3 months, be planted at the same place.

13

The proposed new roof lights shall be of the conservation type and shall be installed so that it is not any higher than the surrounding roof tiles.

14

All new rainwater goods and soil and vent pipes shall be of black painted metal.

15

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.

16

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.

17

All material excavated from the below ground works hereby approved shall be removed from the site.

18

The proposed use of this site has been identified as being particularly vulnerable if land contamination is present, despite no specific former potentially contaminating uses having been identified for this site. Should any discoloured or odorous soils be encountered during development works or should any hazardous materials or significant quantities of non-soil forming materials be found, then all development works should be stopped, the local planning authority contacted and a scheme to investigate the risks and/or the adoption of any required remedial measures be submitted to, agreed and approved in writing by the local planning authority prior to the recommencement of development works. In such instances, following the completion of development works and prior to the first occupation of the site, sufficient information must be submitted to demonstrate that any required remedial measures were satisfactorily implemented or confirmation provided that no unexpected contamination was encountered.

19

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

20

No increase in hard surfaces areas shown on drawing number P201B shall take place without prior consent from the Local Planning Authority through an appropriate planning application.

21

The building hereby permitted shall only be used for purposes directly ancillary to services and events within the adjacent church and shall not be used for any other purposes.

22

No amplified sound shall be used within the building so as to be audible from any location outside of the red line area of the application site as identified on the approved site location plan.

23

Other than use in connection with religious services in the adjacent church at Christmas and Easter, the building hereby permitted shall not be used after 10.30pm on any day of the week.