Planning Application Report NOVEMBER
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PLANNING APPLICATIONS FOR 1st NOVEMBER 2001 Page No. 1 MC2001/0504 Frindsbury Extra & Chattenden Outline application for demolition of site buildings and construction of twelve 3-bedroomed houses with garages. Land adjacent to Ridge Cottage, Lower Rochester Road, Frindsbury, Kent, ME3 8EW 1 2 MC2001/0553 Town Residential development comprising 23 x 2 bedroomed flats in a five storey block with parking Rochester Windows Building, Star Hill, Rochester, Kent 7 3 MC2001/0573 Thames Side Erection of six detached 4-bedroomed houses with integral garages Land at 24 and rear of 26 to 38 Higham Road, Cliffe, Rochester, Kent 14 4 MC2001/0802 Earl Construction of a two storey block comprising eight 1-bedroomed flats Land adjacent to Elaine Court, Elaine Avenue, Strood, Rochester, Kent 21 5 MC2001/0877 Frindsbury Extra & Chattenden Extension to building to provide warehouse and new goods in/out bay, canopy, relocation of security hut and weighbridge Veetee House, Neptune Close, Frindsbury, Rochester, Kent. ME2 4LT 25 6 MC2001/0891 All Saints Conversion of detached Summer room/gymnasium to self contained "granny annexe" Bush House, Ratcliffe Highway, St. Mary Hoo, Rochester, Kent, ME3 8RJ 29 7 MC2001/1380 All Saints Outline application for the construction of one detached house with attached garage Land at Tudor Farm, Stoke Road, Upper Stoke, Rochester, Kent 33 8 MC2001/1475 Town Change of use from retail (Class A1) to hot food takeaway (Class A3) 12 Medway Street, Chatham, Kent, ME4 4HA 36 9 MC2001/1483 St Margarets & Borstal Demolition of existing garage/store and construction of a two storey side extension to form granny annexe 29 Priestfields, Rochester, Kent, ME1 3AB 39 BACKGROUND PAPERS The relevant background papers relating to the individual applications comprise: the applications and all supporting documentation submitted therewith; and items identified in any Relevant History and Information section and Representations section with a report. Any information referred to is available for inspection in the Planning Offices of the Council at the Compass Centre, Chatham Maritime, Chatham. 1. MC2001/0504 Date Received: 27th March 2001 Location: Land adjacent to Ridge Cottage, Lower Rochester Road, Frindsbury, Kent, ME3 8EW Proposal: Outline application for demolition of site buildings and construction of twelve 3-bedroomed houses with garages. Applicant: Millplace Limited The Vines Roxley Road Walderslade Chatham Kent ME5V9JG Agent: Mr L R D Simmons 46 Downsview Chatham Kent ME5 0AL Ward: Frindsbury Extra & Chattenden Recommendation A. The applicant entering into an agreement under Section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 to secure a payment of £24,000 towards the provision of educational facilities; and B. The following conditions:- (as amended by plan received on 6th September 2001) 1 Approval of the details of siting, design and external appearance of the building(s) and the landscaping (hereinafter called "the reserved matters") shall be obtained from the Local Planning Authority in writing before any development is commenced. 2 Plans and particulars of the reserved matters referred to in Condition 1 above shall be submitted in writing to the Local Planning Authority for approval. Such application for approval shall be made to the Authority before the expiration of three years from the date of this permission and the reserved matters shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details. 3 The development hereby permitted shall be begun either before the expiration of five years from the date of this permission, or before the expiration of two years from the date of approval of the last of the reserved matters to be approved, whichever is the later. 4 No development shall take place until there has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority a plan indicating the positions, design, materials and type of boundary treatment to be erected. The boundary treatment shall be completed before the buildings are occupied and shall thereafter be maintained for the duration of the development. Development shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details. DC0902MW 1 5 Details and samples of any materials to be used externally and any means of enclosure shall be submitted to and agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority before development is commenced and development shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details. 6 No development shall take place until full details of both hard and soft landscape works have been submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority and these works shall be carried out as approved. These details shall include- proposed finished levels of contours; hard surfacing materials; minor artifacts and structures (e.g. external furniture, play equipment, refuse or other storage units, signs, lighting etc); proposed and existing functional services above and below ground (e.g. drainage, power, communications cables, pipelines etc. indicating lines, manholes, supports etc); retained historic landscape features and proposals for restoration where relevant. Soft landscape works shall include planting plans, written specifications (including cultivation and other operations associated with grass and plant establishment, aftercare and maintenance); schedules of plants, noting species, plant sizes and proposed numbers/densities where appropriate; and implementation programme. 7 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 any part of the development or in accordance with the programme agreed with the Local Planning Authority. 8 Prior to commencement of the development hereby permitted an investigation shall be undertaken to determine the nature and extent of any contamination. The results of the investigation together with a risk assessment by a competent person and details of a scheme to contain, treat or remove any contamination as appropriate, shall be submitted for the written approval of the Local Planning Authority. The approved scheme shall be fully implemented and a completion report issued by the competent person referred to above, stating how remediation has been completed and that the site is suitable for the permitted use, shall be provided to the Authority prior to first occupation of the development hereby permitted. 9 No dwelling hereby permitted shall be occupied until that part of the service road which provides access to it has been constructed in accordance with the approved details. 10 The details to be submitted in pursuance of Condition 01 shall show adequate land, reserved for the parking or garaging of vehicles and upon approval of the details, no permanent development, whether or not permitted by the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995, (or any Order revoking and re-enacting that Order), shall be carried out on the land so shown (other than the erection of a private garage or garages) or in such a position as to preclude vehicular access to the reserved vehicle parking area. 11 Vision splay(s) of 2.0 metres x 2.0 metres shall be provided on both sides of the vehicular access point(s) and no obstruction of sight more than 0.6 metres above carriageway level shall be permitted within the splay(s). DC0902MW 2 Site Description This application relates to a former quarry, which forms a triangular site at the junction of Lower Rochester Road and Dillywood Lane. The site is accessed via a driveway off Lower Rochester Road, which slopes down into a former quarry. It is currently occupied by a variety of industrial type buildings most of which date from around the 1950’s/1960’s. Most of these buildings would appear to be unoccupied, although one is currently used as a dwelling. Due to the fact that the site has been excavated, the buildings are at a lower level than the prevailing ground level and the site is surrounded by vegetation. The existing buildings are hardly visible from outside the application site. In the south-western corner of the triangle, outside the application site, there is a detached bungalow, known as Ridge Cottage. Proposal The application has been submitted in outline form with all matters, other than means of access, reserved for future consideration. Vehicular access would be achieved via the existing access off Lower Rochester Road. An illustrative drawing shows that all of the existing buildings would be demolished and a new road would be constructed leading from the vehicular access. The proposal has been amended to reduce the number of dwellings from 13 to 12 and the development (as amended) would comprise six pairs of semi-detached houses, five of which would face onto a cul-de-sac with one pair fronting Lower Rochester Road. All of the proposed dwelling would be served directly of the new road. Site Area/Density Site area: 0.27 hectare (0.66 acre) Site density: 44 d.p.h. (18 d.p.a.) Relevant Planning History TH6/64/327 : Erection of steel framed storage building Approved 11th November 1964 TH6/65/307 : Demolition of building and erection of store shed extension. Approved 11th November 1965 TH6/69/341 : Demolition of bungalow and ancillary buildings and erection of caretaker’s house/new works. Approved 11th December 1970 ME/75/48 : Erection of a new office Approved 13th March 1975 ME/77/236 : Outline application for store for box making materials and off loading area. Approved 20th May 1977 DC0902MW 3 ME/77/236A : Details pursuant for store for box-making materials and offloading area. Approved 14th November 1977 ME/87/1139 : Proposed erection of a workshop for box making (to replace existing. Approved 17th December 1987 Representations Frindsbury Extra Parish Council has written objecting to the application on the grounds: - - the application is contrary to the Local Plan. - overdevelopment of the site. - there are concerns over the access onto the B2000.