Issue - meetings

Installation of play equipment and construction of timber covered entrance and exit ways and a buggy storage area outside the Imaginarium within Hobbledown (Retrospective).

Description:

Installation of play equipment and construction of timber covered entrance and exit ways and a buggy storage area outside the Imaginarium within Hobbledown (retrospective).

Officer Recommendation:

Approval, subject to conditions and informatives.

Officer Presentation:

The Committee received a presentation on the application from the Planning Officer.

Decision:

Following consideration, Councillor Peter O’Donovan proposed a motion that the Officer recommendation be agreed. The Proposal was seconded by Councillor Neil Dallen.

The Committee resolved (5 for, 3 against) to:

GRANT planning permission subject to the following conditions and informatives.

Conditions

(1)          Approved Plans

Unless otherwise agreed in writing by the local planning authority, the development hereby permitted shall be carried out in accordance with the plan numbered 002 Rev A, received by the local planning authority on 10 November 2023.

Reason: For avoidance of doubt and to ensure that the development is carried out in accordance with the approved plans to comply with Policy CS5 of the Core Strategy 2007.

(2)          Sustainable Drainage

Within three months of the date of this planning permission, details of a planter, to capture/attenuate surface water runoff from the roof of the development hereby permitted in a sustainable manner, shall be submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority. Thereafter, the approved details shall be installed within one month of the date of that approval and thereafter maintained for the lifetime of the development.

Reason: To accommodate sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) within the Application Site, to accord with Policy DM19 of the Development Management Policies Document (2015).

Informatives

(1)          Positive and Proactive Discussion

In dealing with the application the Council has implemented the requirement in the National Planning Policy Framework to work with the applicant in a positive and proactive way. We have made available detailed advice in the form or our statutory policies in the Core Strategy, Supplementary Planning Documents, Planning Briefs and other informal written guidance, as well as offering a full pre-application advice service, in order to ensure that the applicant has been given every opportunity to submit an application which is likely to be considered favourably.

(2)          Changes to the Approved Plans

Should there be any change from the approved drawings during the build of the development, this may require a fresh planning application if the changes differ materially from the approved details. Non-material changes may be formalised by way of an application under s.96A Town and Country Planning Act 1990.