Agenda item

Change of use of offices at first and second floors to create 2 new residential units (amended description).

Description

Change of use of offices at first and second floors to create 2 new residential units (amended description).

Decision

Planning permission is PERMITTED subject to the following conditions:

Conditions:

(1)            The development hereby permitted shall be begun before the expiration of three years from the date of this permission.

Reason: To comply with Section 91 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 as amended by Section 51 (1) of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004.

(2)            The development hereby permitted shall be carried out in accordance with the following submitted plans and documents:

Location Plan

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Design and Access statement – Revision A

Reason: For the avoidance of doubt and in the interests of proper planning as required by Policy CS5 of the Core Strategy 2007.

(3)            The residential units hereby approved shall not be occupied until they have achieved a water efficiency standard using not more than 110 litres per person per day maximum indoor water consumption.

Reason:  To ensure that the development is sustainable and makes efficient use of water to comply with Policy DM12 of the Development Management Policies (2015).

(4)            Prior to the commencement of the development, details of sustainability measures shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority.  These details shall demonstrate how the development would be efficient in the use of energy, water and materials including means of providing the energy requirements of the development from renewable technologies.  The development shall be carried out in strict accordance with the approved details prior to the first occupation of the building, shall be maintained as such thereafter and no change shall take place without the prior written consent of the local planning authority.

Reason: To ensure that measures to make the development sustainable and

efficient in the use of energy, water and materials are included in the development in accordance with Policy CS6 of the Core Strategy (2007).

Informatives:

(1)            The Council confirms that in assessing this planning application it has worked with the applicant in a positive and proactive way, in line with the requirements of paragraph 186-187 of the National Planning Policy Framework 2012

(2)            Works related to the construction of the development hereby permitted, including works of demolition or preparation prior to building operations shall not take place other than between the hours of 08.00 to 18.00 hours Mondays to Fridays; 08.00 to 13.00 hours Saturdays; with no work on Saturday afternoons (after 13.00 hours), Sundays, Bank Holidays or Public Holidays.

(3)            The water efficiency standard required under condition 3 has been adopted by the local planning authority through the Development Management Policies 2015.  This standard is the ‘optional requirement’ detailed in Building Regulations 2010, Part G Approved Document (AD) Buildings Regulations (2015), at Appendix A paragraph A1. 

The applicant is advised that this standard can be achieved through either:

·                 using the ‘fittings approach’ where water fittings are installed as per the table at 2.1 in the AD or

·                 using the water efficiency calculation methodology detailed in the AD Part G Appendix A.