Pointcloud Consult Mr And Mrs Stembidge Unit 10 Rookery Farm Roemead Road Binegar Wells BA3 4UL

Application Number: 2016/1434/FUL Date of Application: 9th June 2016 Application Type: Full Application

TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT, 1990 (AS AMENDED) TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT PROCEDURE) () ORDER 2015 (AS AMENDED)

THE COUNCIL, being the LOCAL PLANNING AUTHORITY for the said District, hereby GRANT PLANNING PERMISSION to carry out the development described in the application validated on 9th June 2016 subject to conditions hereunder stated.

Proposal: Change of use of a redundant public house to 4no residential dwellings and erection of 2no detached dwellings in car park. Location: The Queens Arms Wraxall Road Wraxall BA4 6RQ Parish: Parish Council

DECISION: Approval with Conditions

REASON FOR APPROVAL

1. The proposal is considered acceptable having regard to the Council's settlement strategy for the location of new development.

The proposal, by reason of its design, scale and layout would be in keeping with its surroundings and would not harm the amenities of neighbouring residents and adjoining land users. The means of access and parking arrangements meet the required safety standards and will ensure the free flow of traffic on the highway.

The proposal has been tested against the following Development Plan policies. In the opinion of the Local Planning Authority, and subject to the conditions below, the proposal is acceptable:- CP1 and CP2 (principle of development), DP1 (local identity), DP7 (design and amenity), DP8 (environmental protection) DP9 (transport), DP10 (parking), DP12 (rural exception sites), DP14 (housing mix and type), DP17 (safeguarding of community facilities), DP22 (re-use and conversion of rural buildings) of the Mendip District Local Plan 2006-2029 (Part 1 Strategies and Policies - adopted 15th December 2014) National Planning Policy Framework Planning Practice Guidance The Countywide Parking Strategy (2013)

CONDITIONS

1. The development hereby permitted shall be begun before the expiration of three years from the date of this permission. Reason: As required by Section 51 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 and to avoid the accumulation of unimplemented planning permissions.

2. No external facing materials in respect of the walls and roof of the development hereby approved shall be constructed or installed unless a schedule of materials and finishes and samples of the materials to be used in the construction of the external surfaces have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The development hereby approved shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details and shall not be occupied until the approved external facing materials have been installed. Reason: in the interests of the character and appearance of the area.

3. The development hereby approved shall be carried out in accordance with drawing numbers 2016/STEMBRIDGE/01/S01, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05. Reason: For the avoidance of doubt and in the interest of proper planning.

4. No external facing stonework shall be constructed in respect the development hereby approved until a sample panel of the natural stone and mortar has been erected on site and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. It shall thereafter be kept on site for reference until the development is completed. The development hereby approved shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details and shall not be occupied until the stonework has been constructed in accordance with the approved sample panel. Reason: in the interests of the character and appearance of the area.

5. Plot 1 shall not be occupied as a dwelling until acoustic details of double glazing and background ventilation provision serving habitable rooms in the west elevation (facing the main road) of this unit has been submitted to and approved, in writing, by the Local Planning Authority, and those measures installed. The development shall thereafter be carried out and occupied in accordance with the approved details and the measures shall be permanently maintained. Reason: in the interests of the amenities of occupiers of the dwelling.

6. The proposed estate roads, footways, footpaths, cycleways, bus stops/bus lay-bys, verges, junctions, street lighting, sewers, drains, retaining walls, service routes, surface water outfall, vehicle overhang margins, embankments, visibility splays, accesses, carriageway gradients, drive gradients, car, motorcycle and cycle parking, street furniture and tactile paving shall be constructed, laid out and maintained in accordance with details to be approved by the Local Planning Authority in writing before their construction begins. For this purpose, plans and sections, indicating as appropriate, the design, layout, levels, gradients, materials, method of construction and proposals for future maintenance shall be submitted to the Local Planning Authority. Reason: in the interests of highway safety

7. There shall be no obstruction to visibility greater than 600mm above adjoining road level (i) forward of a line drawn 2.0 metres back and parallel to the nearside carriageway edge over the entire site frontage on the west side of the proposed access onto Wraxall Road (ii) within the area hatched in red on the Site Plan. Such visibility shall be fully provided before works commence on the development hereby permitted and shall thereafter be maintained at all times.

Reason: in the interests of highway safety.

8. No part of the development hereby approved shall be brought into use or occupied unless it is served with associated parking spaces identified on the approved plans. The parking spaces shall thereafter not be used other than for the parking of motor vehicles. Reason: To ensure that sufficient parking is provided to serve the approved development in the interests of highway safety.

NOTES

1. In accordance with paragraphs 186 and 187 of the National Planning Policy Framework the Council has worked in a positive and pro-active way and has imposed planning conditions to enable the grant of planning permission.

2. In order to discharge conditions relating to the approval of external walling and roofing materials, please ensure that materials are left on site for approval and NOT brought to the Council Offices. When applying for the approval of materials, you must state precisely where on site any samples have been made available for viewing.

3. THIS APPROVAL IS SUBJECT TO A SECTION 106 LEGAL AGREEMENT TO SECURE THE FOLLOWING OBLIGATIONS: Affordable Housing (2 units)

I.Bowen BA(Hons) BTP(Dist) MRTPI Group Manager for Planning and Growth Services

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Dated 12th December 2016