Issue - meetings

Granted planning permission subject to the conditions and informatives  set out in the Committee report and an additional condition requiring the submission and approval of further details detailing measures to prevent vehicular parking within the curtilage of the dwellinghouses and the implementation, retention and maintenance of those measures.

PROPOSAL

Demolition of 2 existing dwellings and construction of 4x new three storey dwellinghouses, associated cycle and refuse storage, amenity space and boundary treatment.

RECOMMENDATION~:

That the Committee resolve to GRANT planning permission subject to:

(1)  That the Head of Planning is delegated authority to issue the planning permission and impose conditions and informatives as detailed in the report.

(2)  That the Head of Planning is delegated to make changes to the wording of the committee’s decision (such as to delete, vary or add conditions, informatives, planning obligations or reasons for the decision) prior to the decision being actioned, provided that the Head of Planning is satisfied that any such changes could not reasonably be regarded as deviating from the overall principle of the decision reached by the committee nor that such change(s) could reasonably have led to a different decision having been reached by the committee.

(3)  That the Committee confirms that adequate provision has been made, by the imposition of conditions, for the preservation or planting of trees as required by Section 197 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.

Mahya Fatemi, Planning Officer, North Area Planning Team introduced the report and set out the key issues. In introducing the application, the Committee were advised that the application site comprised of a pair of semi-detached dwellinghouses located along the north-west corner of Barham Park, adjacent to the railway tracks for Network Rail services in Sudbury.

The Committee’s attention was drawn to the supplementary report that provided information regarding amendments to the proposed site plan. It had been brought to officers’ attention by the Council's Property Team that they considered that the land set out on the transfer particulars did not correspond with the application site boundary for the land at 776 and 778 Harrow Road. The extent of the boundary on the western and southern edges of the site as identified by the Property Team was smaller than set out within the application submission, resulting in a small part of the land potentially sitting within the park. The Committee were advised that discussions were ongoing between the applicant and the Council’s Property Team to reach a definitive position on the site boundary. The applicant felt that the entirety of the application site (with the exception of the access over which there is a right of way) fell within the land owned by them. The architects had re-confirmed that the application drawings had been based on a full topographic survey that they commissioned and that this accurately reflected what was on site. To safeguard the planning application process, the planning officer requested that the applicant provided a boundary treatment to enclose the curtilage of the new dwellings to exclude any disputed area. An amendment to the proposed site / ground floor plan had therefore been submitted since the publication of the committee agenda report. The amendments included changes to the site boundary line on the western and southern edges which also incorporated a 1.2 metre fence indicated  ...  view the full minutes text for item 4