Agenda Document for Planning Committee, 04/09/2017
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Item 4 REPORT TO: Planning Committee REPORT NO. HEP/57/17 DATE: 4th September 2017 REPORTING OFFICER: Head of Environment and Planning CONTACT OFFICER: David Williams (Ext 8775) SUBJECT: Development Control Applications WARD: N/A PURPOSE OF THE REPORT To determine the listed planning applications. INFORMATION Detailed reports on each application together with the recommendations are attached. RECOMMENDATION See attached reports. BACKGROUND PAPERS None. Page 15 REPORT OF THE HEAD OF ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING 4th September 2017 Community Code No Applicant Recommendation Pages CEF P/2016/0985 MR MATTHEW GRANT 18 – 22 HARRISON-JONES GWE P/2017 /0452 MR DAVID SIMONS GRANT 23 – 27 LGC P/2017 /0453 SP MANWEB PLC NO OBJECTION 28 – 30 WRR P/2017 /0520 MR STEPHEN LLOYD GRANT 31 – 35 CEF P/2017 /0547 MR ANDREW HAMBLETT GRANT 36 – 38 WRO P/2017 /0565 WE BUY ANY CAR GRANT 39 – 43 LIMITED WRO P/2017 /0566 WE BUY ANY CAR GRANT 44 – 46 LIMITED ROS P/2017 /0567 MS DIANE REES GRANT 47 – 53 ROS P/2017 /0577 MR ALAN BROOKE GRANT 54 – 63 RUA P/2017 /0581 MR PARRY REFUSE 64 – 67 RHO P/2017 /0598 MR HAROLD LEWIS GRANT 68 – 74 WRO P/2017 /0608 THE ORCHARD CARE GRANT 75 – 82 GROUP - MR DAVE ATKINS WRC P/2017 /0611 MR ARRAN PRITCHARD GRANT 83 – 89 WRO P/2017 /0613 MR JOHN CORCORAN GRANT 90 – 93 GWE P/2017 /0614 MRS WENDY LOMAS REFUSE 94 – 97 WRR P/2017 /0630 MS J TAYLOR GRANT 98 – 104 Total Number of Applications Included in Report – 16 Page 16 REPORT OF THE HEAD OF ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING 4th September 2017 All plans included in this report are re-produced from Ordnance Survey Mapping with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. Crown Copyright. Unauthorised reproduction infringes Crown Copyright and may lead to prosecution or civil proceedings. WCBC Licence No. LA0902IL All plans are intended to be illustrative only and should be used only to identify the location of the proposal and the surrounding features. The scale of the plans will vary. Full details may be viewed on the case files. Page 17 REPORT OF THE HEAD OF ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING 4th September 2017 APPLICATION NO: LOCATION: DATE RECEIVED: P/2016 /0985 SUNNY RIDGE DOLYDD LANE CEFN 25/10/2016 MAWR WREXHAM LL14 3NF COMMUNITY: CASE OFFICER: Cefn DESCRIPTION: KH CONSTRUCTION OF 20M X 40M EQUINE MENAGE FOR NON- WARD: COMMERICAL USE TO BE SITED ON AGENT NAME: Cefn EXISTING GRAZING LAND MR MATTHEW HARRISON-JONES APPLICANT(S) NAME: MR MATTHEW HARRISON-JONES P/2016/0985 THE SITE Land to the south of Dolydd Lane, Cefn Mawr, Wrexham. Residential properties are located east / north east of the proposed site with agricultural land to the south. Site Page 18 REPORT OF THE HEAD OF ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING 4th September 2017 PROPOSAL The construction of a 20m x 40m equine ménage, for non-commercial use, on existing grazing land. HISTORY No recent history. DEVELOPMENT PLAN The land is located outside the settlement for Cefn Mawr, within the Clwydian and Dee Valley AONB, an adjoining Special Landscape Area and outside but close to the Pontcysyllte World Heritage Site Buffer zone. No policy objections. CONSULTATIONS Community Council: Consulted 26.10.2016. Local Member: Notified 26.10.2016. Highways: No objections subject to a planning condition restricting the use for purposes ancillary to the use of the dwelling and not used as a riding school or for any other business purposes. NRW: No objections with ecological report submitted undertaken to an acceptable standard. Consideration is required of the impact on the Clwydian Range and Dee Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) where the primary objective is to conserve and enhance natural beauty. Clwydian Range and Dee Valley AONB Joint Committee: The site is largely screened from view of the nearby World Heritage Site but it is in an open area visible from the A5 and higher ground of the AONB to the south. Views should be made to mitigate visual impact and in this regard it will be important to retain the existing mature hedge and tree screen to the west and south of the site and to supplement the proposed post and rail boarded fence with a new hedge comprising traditional native local species to enclose the site. Retention of existing hedge and trees will be particularly important to mitigate potential inter-visibility between the site and the World Heritage Site. No lighting should be permitted and the ménage surface should be a dark recessive colour. Page 19 REPORT OF THE HEAD OF ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING 4th September 2017 Engineering works will be required and a cut and fill approach is favoured to ensure a lower level of the ménage and reduce the need to import materials. Other representations: One neighbour concerned at the visual impact on his property and objects. Site Notice: Expired 24.11.2016. SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS Visual Impact / Residential Amenity: The ménage is 20 x 40 m and appropriate perimeter fencing supplemented by a new hedge of traditional native local species will reduce the impact. The site is largely screened from view from the nearby World Heritage Site but is an open area visible from the A5 and higher ground of the AONB to the south. Existing vegetation on the site boundaries will be retained which helps mitigate the proposal. A cut and fill approach is proposed to lower the ménage level and minimise the visual impact generally and prevent it being intrusive to neighbouring properties. Highways: No objections subject to use for domestic use only and no commercial element. CONCLUSION I am satisfied the proposal is acceptable subject to appropriate conditions. Existing vegetation, a proposed new hedge to the boundary of the ménage and the reduction of the levels of the ménage by ‘cut and fill’ will ensure the impact on the WHS and the AONB is minimised and will not adversely impact on residential amenity. RECOMMENDATION: That permission be GRANTED CONDITION(S) 1. The development hereby permitted shall be commenced before the expiry of five years from the date of this permission. 2. The development shall be carried out in strict accordance with the approved plans / drawings:- - Batter heights - Site Location Plan - Engineering works to lower ménage height - Ménage cross section and details contained within the application documentation. 3. Details of the proposed post and rail fence to the ménage boundary shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority prior to the first use of the ménage. Works shall be carried out strictly in Page 20 REPORT OF THE HEAD OF ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING 4th September 2017 accordance with the details as approved and retained thereafter unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority. 4. Details of a new hedge, comprising traditional native local species to enclose the site shall be submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority prior to the first use of the ménage. The works shall be carried out strictly in accordance with the details as are approved and to a timescale to be agreed in writing with the Local Planning Authority as part of this condition. 5. The hedge required by Condition 04 shall be permanently retained and shall not be cut down grubbed out, lopped, or uprooted. Any hedgerow removed or being severely damaged or becoming diseased shall be replaced with hedging plants of the equivalent size and species. 6. Within three months of commencement of development details of landscaping the battered banks of the ménage, together with a timescale for implementation of works shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. 7. The landscaping scheme submitted and approved in connection with condition no. 6 shall be fully implemented in all respects within the agreed timescale and in strict accordance with the approved scheme. 8. The landscaping scheme as carried out in connection with condition no. 6 shall be permanently retained. Any planting becoming severely damaged or seriously diseased, or is in poor physiological condition and/or are removed without the written permission of the Local Planning Authority shall be replaced with trees or shrubs of similar size and species to those originally required to be planted and within a timescale all to be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. 9. The ménage shall be used only for purposes ancillary to the use of the dwelling and shall not be used as a riding school or for any other business purposes. 10. No lighting of the ménage shall take place. 11. The recommendations of the Extended Phase 1 Survey Report dated 19th October 2016 produced by Wildbanks Conservation shall be fully adhered to. REASON(S) 1. To comply with Section 91(3) of the Town and Country Planning Act, 1990. 2. To define the scope of the planning permission 3. In the interests of the general visual amenities of the area. 4. In the interests of the general visual amenities of the area. 5. In the interests of the general visual amenities of the area. 6. To ensure a satisfactory standard of appearance of the development in the interests of the visual amenities of the area. 7. To ensure a satisfactory standard of appearance of the development in the interests of the visual amenities of the area. 8. To ensure a satisfactory standard of appearance of the development in the interests of the visual amenities of the area. 9. In the interests of highway safety and nearby residential amenity. Page 21 REPORT OF THE HEAD OF ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING 4th September 2017 10.