Proposal:  Install glazed lift shaft to side of existing building for access to Dwelling (Amended Proposal)

Applicant:  Mr M Bilkus

Agent:  Mr Paul Seager of APS Design Associates Ltd

Mr Mangham, a local resident spoke as and objector to this application.  The applicant, Mr Bilkus, responded.

Resolved:-

That planning permission be GRANTED subject to the following conditions:

01  The development hereby permitted shall be begun not later than 3 years beginning with the date of this permission.

Reason: Required to be imposed pursuant to Section 91 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.

02  The development hereby approved shall be carried out in accordance with the approved plans: 3067 01, 3067 02, 3067 03, 3067 04 REV A, 3067 05 REV A, 3067 06 REV A.

Reason: To ensure the development is carried out in accordance with the development plan.

03  No development above ground level shall take place on site until details of noise and vibration mitigation measures to ensure that  the development hereby approved would be inaudible from and would not cause any harmful vibration to any nearby habitable room, have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The measures shall be fully implemented as approved prior to the first use of the development hereby approved. 

Reason: To mitigate the noise and vibration from the approved development in the interest of the living conditions of future occupiers in accordance with the National Planning Policy Framework (2019), Policies KP2 and CP4 of the Core Strategy (2007), Policies DM1 and DM3 of the Development Management Document (2015).

04  No construction above ground floor level shall take place on site until samples and details of the materials to be used on the external surfaces of the development, including roof, walls and fenestration have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The development shall be carried out in complete accordance with the approved details before it is brought into first use and shall be retained as such for the lifetime of the development.

Reason: In the interest of visual amenity and to avoid any detrimental overlooking in accordance with the National Planning Policy Framework (2019), Core Strategy (2007) Policies KP2 and CP4, Development Management Document (2015) Policies DM1 and DM3, and the advice contained within the National Design Guide (2019) and the Design and Townscape Guide (2009).

05  Construction works for the approved development on site shall only be undertaken between 8 am to 6 pm on weekdays, between 8 am and 1 pm on Saturdays and not at any time on Sundays and Public Holidays. 

Reason: In the interest of the residential amenity of nearby occupiers in accordance with the National Planning Policy Framework (2019), Policies KP2 and CP4 of the Core Strategy (2007), Policies DM1 and DM3 of the Development Management Document (2015).

The Local Planning Authority has acted positively and proactively in determining this application by identifying matters of concern within the application (as originally submitted) and negotiating, with the Applicant, acceptable amendments to the proposal to address those concerns.  As a result, the Local Planning Authority has been able to grant planning permission for an acceptable proposal, in accordance with the presumption in favour of sustainable development, as set out within the National Planning Policy Framework.  The detailed analysis is set out in a report on the application prepared by officers.

INFORMATIVES:

1. You are advised that as the proposed extension(s) or change of use to your property equates to less than 100sqm of new floorspace, and does not involve the creation of a new dwelling (Class C3), the development benefits from a Minor Development Exemption under the Community Infrastructure Levy Regulations 2010 (as amended) and as such no charge is payable.

See the Planning Portal for further details about CIL:

(www.planningportal.co.uk/info/200136/policy_and_legislation/70/community_infrastructure_levy) or the Council's website (www.southend.gov.uk/cil).

2  As part of Condition 4, details should be submitted to demonstrate that the approved development would not cause materially harmful overlooking towards neighbouring windows and gardens.