PLANNING SUBCOMMITTEE
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2 May 2001
9.30am to 3.15pm |
PRESENT: Councillors Slatter (Chair), Blencowe, Cowell, Dryden,
Harrison, Hipkin, Nimmo-Smith, M Schofield, Smart, Smith.
Also Present: Councillor
Bradnack for applications C/01/0036 and C/01/0183 as a Ward Councillor
Councillor Bagnall for application C/00/0032 as a Ward
Councillor
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FOR
THE INFORMATION OF THE COUNCIL |
The minutes of the meeting held on 7 March 2001 were confirmed as a correct record and signed by the Chair.
There were no apologies for absence.
A pecuniary interest was declared as follows:
·
Councillor Slatter
in relation to application C/01/0125, The Leys School, Trumpington Road, as her
husband was an employee of The Leys School.
She withdrew from the room whilst the application was being considered,
and Councillor Hipkin took the Chair in her place.
Code of Conduct (non-financial) interests were
declared as follows:
·
Councillor Smart in
relation to application C/01/0036, 83 Mill Road, as she was the Chair of the
Ditchburn Place/Stanton House Management Committee.
·
Councillor Nimmo-Smith in relation to application
C/01/0085, 57 Hartington Grove, as he was currently involved in a motor
insurance claim with one of the objectors to the application. He withdrew from the room whilst the
application was being considered.
A summary of decisions on applications for planning consent is set out in the appendix to these minutes. Full details of the decisions, conditions of permissions and reasons for refusals may be inspected in the Environment and Planning Department.
Resolved that
1.
Planning
applications considered by the Subcommittee be determined as set out in
appendix 1 to these minutes.
2. Conditions or grounds for refusal, which the Subcommittee had delegated to the Director of Environment and Planning to draw up during the course of the meeting, following consultation with the Chair and Spokesperson, be as set out in appendix 2 to these minutes.
Appendix 1
2nd May 2001
1
No: C/01/0183
Site: Mazda Car Showroom, Coldhams
Lane, Cambridge, CB1 3ES
Proposal: Demolition of car showroom and erection of
retail warehouse
together
with a car park and landscaping, and alterations to the
existing
access arrangement.
PSR: Councillor
Bradnack (Ward Councillor)
Applicant: B L Universal
APPROVED: subject to
the successful completion of an obligation
under Section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as
amended) to
i) limit the range of goods to be sold
ii) to preclude any proposals for the creation of a service road to the
rear of the York Street properties, coming forward from the site owners within
5 years of commencement of development.
And, subject to the following conditions:
1.
Standard Time
– Full Permissions (CO1)
2.
Cycle Parking
(C22)
3.
Disabled car
parking spaces to be formally marked out
4.
Hard and soft
Landscape works (C31)
5.
Landscape
works implementation (C34)
6.
Hard and soft
landscape implementation (C35)
7.
Floodlighting
details, buildings (C38A)
8.
Noise
Insulation (C62)
9.
Construction
Hours (C63)
10.
Method statement detailing the method of
demolition
11.
Dust
suppressions provision
12.
Potential
contamination mitigation methods
13.
Collection and
delivery hours
14.
Arrangements
for the storage and disposal of all waste
15.
Details of the
proposed plant associated with the re-located/upgraded sub-station.
16.
Elevation and
plan design details of the relocated sub-station
17.
The trees
adjoining the rear service access shall be subject to a scheme of selective
management and careful pruning to ensure that they are not damaged by vehicles
delivering to the unit or accessing the electricity substation.
18.
Provision and
implementation of pollution control
19.
Motorcycle
parking provision.
And the following informatives:
1. Considerate Contractor Scheme
(A105)
2. The applicant is advised to
contact Cambridge City Council’s Food and Occupational Safety Section, Mandela
House, 4 Regent Street, Cambridge, Tel: (01223 457900) for advice concerning
health and safety/food regulations/ requirements, as the premises may require
registration under Office Shops and Railway Premises Act and will need to
comply with the standards contained in the Health and Safety Regulations.
3. The applicant is advised in
relation to the desk top study for possible
contamination to refer to:
A.
Department of
Environment (DoE) Contaminated Land Research
Report – “Guidance on
preliminary site inspection of contaminated
land”, prepared by
Applied Environmental Research Centre Ltd., CLR
No 2, Volume One (of
two), 1994.
B. Construction Industry Research and
Information Association CIRIA
(1995) Special
Publication 103:- “Remedial Treatment for
Contaminated Land”, Volume III: “Site
Investigation and Assessment”.
C. British Standards Code of Practice for
“Investigation of Potentially
Contaminated Sites”
1999.
D. This planning permission
should be read in conjunction with the associated deed of planning obligation prepared under S106 of the Town and
Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended) between Cambridge City Council and dated
as this decision notice.
2
No: C/01/0036
Site: 83 Mill Road, Cambridge, CB1 2AW
Proposal: Alterations to the front entrance, erection
of a single storey rear
extension,
installation of new doorways and windows in the rear
elevation
and erection of a rear pergola and external staircase.
PSR: Councillor Bradnack (Ward
Councillor)
Applicant: Mr I J Stennett
REFUSED (9 votes to 1) based on Policy BE2 of the
Cambridge Local Plan 1996 a
And PPG 1 General Principles – Paragraph 64,
subject to consultation with Chair and Spokesperson.
3
No: C/01/0126
Site: Zion Church Hall, 1 East Road,
Cambridge, CB1 1BD
Proposal: Removal of conditions 01 of planning
permission C/98/0120/VC
to
allow permanent use of the premises as a nightshelter
facility
for homeless people.
PSR: Mrs Jenny Kirner (local resident)
and Rev Tony Barker (applicant)
Applicant: The Minister and Members
APPROVED (8 votes to 0) subject to the following
condition:
1. The use hereby permitted shall be discontinued and the building
restored to its former condition and use on or before 31 May 2006, in
accordance with a scheme of work to be submitted to the local planning
authority.
4
No: C/01/0231
Site: 23 St Barnabas Road, Cambridge,
CB1 2BU
Proposal: Single storey extension to existing dental
technicians laboratory
(retrospective
application).
Applicant: J Wylie
APPROVED Unconditionally
5
No: C/01/0232
Site: Parkside Pool & Kelsey Kerridge Sports
Centre, Gonville Place,
Cambridge
Proposal: Installation of externally illuminated sign
above entrance canopy,
halo
illuminated sign and freestanding internally illuminated
entrance
sign.
Applicant: David Poole, Director of Community Services,
Cambridge City Council
APPROVED
(unanimously) subject to the following condition under Regulation 13 of the
Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) Regulations 1992
1.
The
advertisement the subject of this express consent shall be removed on or before
5 years from the date of this consent.
And the following conditions:
1. Adverts restriction on illumination (CAD1)
2. A drawing of scale at least 1:50 of the precise position of Sign 1 on
the west elevation of the building shall be submitted to and approved in
writing by the local planning authority, and implemented as agreed.
3. Details of the means of external illumination of Sign 1 shall be
submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority, and
implemented as agreed.
4. The means of illumination of Sign 2 shall be first agreed in writing
with the local planning authority and implemented in accordance with that
agreed.
6
No: C/01/0085
Site: 57 Hartington Grove, Cambridge, CB1 4UB
Proposal: Change of use from residential care home with ancillary residential flat
to two flats.
Applicant: Mohammad Jamic Akhtah
1. Standard time – full permissions (CO1).
2. Details of the position of refuse facilities for the two flats shall
be submitted to and approved in writing with the local planning authority, and
implemented as agreed.
3. Cycle Parking (C22A).
And the following informative:
1. For the avoidance of doubt the applicant is advised that there are no
permitted development rights for flats and that any changes to the physical
appearance of the building will therefore require planning permission.
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No: C/01/0081
Site: J Sainsbury PLC, Brooks Road, Cambridge, CB1
3HP
Proposal: Installation of noise mitigation works in service yard (including
acoustic screen 5.5m high) and variation of condition 13 of planning permission
C/99/0820/FP to extend delivery hours of supermarket: no goods delivered
outside the hours of 0600 and midnight Monday-Friday 0700-0800 weekends and
bank holidays. All delivery vehicles to have left the site by 2230 Mondays to
Fridays, 1800 hours on Saturday and 1600 Sundays and Bank Holidays (unless they
are to remain on site over-night without their engine running and with their
refrigeration plant turned off until the above stipulated commencement times
for delivery on the following day).
Applicant: Sainsburys Supermarkets Ltd
APPROVED (unanimously) subject to the following
conditions:
1. Hours of delivery of goods
2. Sound attenuation barrier time limit
And the following informatives:
1. Restrictions on use of reversing beepers
2. Early morning van deliveries excluded from loading bay
3. Any cultivating or works affecting the flow of a watercourse requires
prior written consent of the Environment Agency under the terms of the Land
Drainage Act 1991/Water Resources Act 1991. The Environment Agency seeks to
avoid culverting, and its Consent for such works will not normally be granted
except as a means of access. The granting of planning approval must not be
taken to imply that consent has been given with respect to the above.
8
No: C/01/0125
Site: The Leys School, Trumpington Road,
Cambridge, CB2 2AD
Proposal: Erection of a three storey teaching building
to west of playing field.
Applicant: The Governors of The Leys School
DEFERRED (6 votes to 0) pending future consultation on parking provision and
Green Travel Plan
9
No: C/01/0162
Site: 104 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 1LH
Proposal: Erection of roof extension to existing
offices.
Applicant: Pace Investments Ltd
APPROVED (9 votes to 1) subject to prior satisfactory
completion of a S.106 Obligation to secure 11 commuted car parking payments
(£27,500), and the following conditions:
1. Standard time – full permissions (CO1)
2. Materials samples (C11)
3. Construction hours (C63)
4. Cycle Parking (C22A)
And the following informatives:
1. The applicant is urged to liaise with the BBC with regard to the
proposed programme of construction for the development hereby permitted. The
applicant is advised to seek methods of minimising noise arising from such
works in order that construction should not unduly disturb radio or television
broadcasts. The applicant should also liaise with the BBC with regard to hours
of construction on the site.
2. The applicant is advised to liaise with the BBC with regard to the
presence of aerials on the roof of Betjamin House, in order that construction
works do not impinge upon the operation of such telecommunications equipment.
10
No: C/01/0191
Site: 5 Belmore Close, Cambridge, CB4 3NN
Proposal: Erection of a two storey side extension, including replacement of
existing garage.
PSR: Mr
Brian Smith (applicant)
Applicant: Mr & Mrs B Smith
APPROVED (9 votes to 1) with delegated authority
given to the Director of Environment and Planning to add conditions.
11
No: C/01/0097
Site: 26 Victoria Street, Cambridge, CB1 1JP
Proposal: Change of use from garage (sui generis use) and hairdresser (use class
A1) to residential through the erection of six dwellings (four maisonettes and
two houses) with associated gardens and parking.
Applicant: Callie Limited
APPROVED (unanimously) subject to the satisfactory
completion of a S106 obligation. The heads of terms for the S106 are:
1) Formal open space contribution £5814
2) Informal open space contribution of £4608
3) Children’s play area contribution of £2064
And subject to the following conditions:
1. Standard time – full permissions (CO1)
2. Sample panel of facing materials
3. 1:20 scale details (C14)
4. All window frames and doors must be constructed from timber and shall
be retained thereafter in that
condition.
5. Car port structure details
6. Historic boundary wall survey
7. Provision of parking, loading, turning (C20)
8. Hard and soft landscape works (C31)
9. Hard and soft landscape implementation (C35)
10. Cycle Parking (C22A)
11. Construction hours (C63)
12. Restoration of damage to listed buildings (C101)
13. Method of demolition and details of dust suppression
14. Arrangements for the storage and disposal of all waste
15. Details of contractors operations (C64)
16. Full specification methodology for the remediation of contaminants
17. Scheme for the insulation of the building
And the following informatives:
1. Considerate contractor scheme
2. All best endeavours must be taken to ensure the protection and
continuing good health of the Russian Vine in the garden of 7 Parker Street,
which contributes to the setting of the listed building.
3. The applicant is advised to refer to Environment Agency comments
dated 21 March 2001.
4. The developer should contact the Highway Authority, or its agent, to
arrange construction of any works within, or disturbance of, or interference
with, the Public Highway, and that all costs associated with such works shall
be borne by the developer.
5. The developer will neither be permitted to drain the roof over the
public highway, nor across it in a surface channel, but must make arrangements
to install a piped drainage connection.
6. No window or door will be allowed to open over a highway, and no
foundation or footing for the structure will be allowed to encroach under the
public highway.
7. The granting of a planning permission does not constitute a
permission or licence to a developer to carry out any works within, or
disturbance of, or interference with, the Public Highway, and a separate
permission must be sought from the Highway Authority for such works.
8. The applicant is advised in relation to the desk top study for
possible
contamination to refer to:
A
Department of Environment (DoE) Contaminated Land Research
Report – “Documentary research on industrial sites”, prepared by
RPS Consultants Ltd, CLR Report No 3, 1994.
B.
Department of
Environment (DoE) Contaminated Land Research
Report – “Guidance on
preliminary site inspection of contaminated
land”, prepared by
Applied Environmental Research Centre Ltd., CLR
No 2, Volume One (of
two), 1994.
C. Construction Industry Research and
Information Association CIRIA
(1995) Special
Publication 103:- “Remedial Treatment for
Contaminated Land”, Volume III: Site
Investigation and Assessment.
D. British Standards Code of Practice for
“Investigation of Potentially
Contaminated Sites”
1999.
9. The applicant is advised that the new dwelling units will not be
entitled to residents permits within the Kite Residents Parking Scheme.
12
No: C/00/1078
Site: Milton Arms PH, 205 Milton Road, Cambridge,
CB4 1XG
Proposal: Single storey side extension to pub
Applicant: Greene King Pub Co
1. Standard time – full permissions (CO1)
2. Cycle Parking (C22)
3. Hard and soft landscape works (C31)
4. Landscape works maintenance (C34)
5. Construction hours (C63)
6. No development shall commence until details of a disabled parking
space within the rear parking area for use in conjunction with the development
hereby permitted has been submitted to and approved by the local planning
authority in writing.
And the following informative:
1. The applicant is advised to contact Cambridge City Council’s Food and
Occupational Safety Section, Mandela House, 4 Regent Street, Cambridge, Tel:
(01223 457900) for advice concerning health and safety/food regulation
requirements.
13
No: C/01/0196/FP
Site: Mayflower House, Manhattan Drive, Cambridge
Proposal: Installation of telecommunications apparatus comprising 6 No ADC
antennas and equipment and equipment cabin.
Applicant: Vodaphone Limited
APPROVED (9 votes to 0) subject to the following
conditions:
1. Standard time – full permissions (CO1)
2. Timetable for the removal of the existing
equipment currently in use on the Simoco site.
3. The antenna hereby granted approval shall
be removed as soon as is reasonably practical after its use for
telecommunications technology or as a result of other considerations.
4. The equipment cabinet and antennae hereby
approved shall be finished Vandyke brown, as shown on the drawings, unless
otherwise agreed in writing with the local planning authority.
5. Prior to installation of equipment,
aluminium sheeting of 0.2mm minimum thickness to be laid.
And the following informative:
1. If further telecommunications development
is required at this site the Local Planning Authority will expect the operator
to look creatively at sharing any existing equipment on site in order to
minimise further visual impact.
14
No: C/00/0032/FP
Site: Former Laundry Building, Laundry Lane,
Cambridge.
Proposal: Erection of 17 dwelling houses with access
from Derwent Close,
following
the demolition of the existing building.
PSR: Mr Birch (Resident)
and Mr Toovey on behalf of the applicant.
Applicant: Pascuzzi Brothers
APPROVED (by 6 votes to 3) subject to the following
conditions:
1. Standard Time – full permissions (CO1)
2. Materials samples (C11)
3. Sample Panel (C15)
4. Parking, loading, unloading as attached
plan (C20B)
5. Provision and retention of Car Parking
(C21)
6. Cycle Parking (CO22)
7. Hard and soft landscape works (C31)
8. Landscape works maintenance (C34)
9. Boundary Treatment (implementation before
occupation) (C37A)
10. Construction Hours (C63)
11. Details of Contractors operations (C64)
12. Cycle Parking (CO22)
13. Permitted Development Restriction
(extensions) (C80)
14. Permitted Development Exclusion (windows
or dormers) (C81)
15
No: C/00/0238/FP
Site: Former Abattoir, Church End, Cambridge, CB1
3LB
Proposal: Demolition of existing Abattoir building and ancillary offices and
erection of new two-storey office building (1836 square metres) with associated
car parking and landscaping (Class B1).
Applicant: Semitool Europe Ltd
1. A financial contribution towards the Eastern Corridor Area Transport
Plan (ECATP) to be advised on the pre-Committee amendment sheet.
2. The preparation of a Travel for Work Plan for employees
3. The premises shall be subject to a restriction on occupancy to
Semitool Europe or other established Cambridge companies for a 10 year period
from first occupancy.
1. Standard Time – full permissions (C01).
2. Materials samples (C11).
3. Sample Panel (C15).
4. Specified parking, loading, unloading (C20A).
5. Cycle Parking (C22).
6. Soft landscape works details (C32)
7. Landscape works maintenance (C34)
8. Hard and soft landscape implementation (C35)
9. Landscape management plan (C36)
10. Floodlighting details (C38)
11. Details of planting implementation (Trees) C53.
12. Replacement Trees and Shrubs (C54)
13. Fume Filtration/Extraction (C60)
14. Noise Insulation (C62)
15. Construction hours (C63)
16. Details of contractors operations (C64)
17. Archaeology (C85A)
18. Details of foul and surface drainage
20.
Surface water
treatment
21.
Details of any
changes in ground levels
22.
Land contamination investigation
And the following informatives:
1. This planning permission should be read in conjunction with the
associated deed of planning obligation prepared under S106 of the Town and
Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended) between Cambridge City Council and dated
as this decision notice.
2. Considerate Contractor Scheme
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No: C/98/0355/FP
Site: Sixth Schedule - Pedestrian Bridge -
of the Cattle Market Site Redevelopment
Section 106 Agreement.
Proposal: The possible exercising of 6.2 b), to allow payment to the Council of
the cost of the provision by the Council of an alternative pedestrian link to
satisfy the relevant policy objectives.
Applicant: Turnstone Estates
Agenda Item 5
Subject: Variation of S106
obligation – the Moller Centre, Churchill College
APPROVED (unanimously) to modify S106
obligation dated 25/2/1991 to discharge the requirement for 27 study bedrooms
to be available for undergraduates during University term time subject to
additional S106 requirements as follows:
a)
The implementation and earliest completion of planning permission
C/00/0673/FP and C/00/0674/CAC for 30
Graduate rooms in accordance with the timetable set out in the Bursar’s letter
of 20 February 2001, and
b)
The re-designation and continued use thereafter of 27 rooms (in
staircases 2-5) within the main college complex for undergraduates only from
the first occupation of the new graduate accommodation referred to above, and
thereafter in accordance with the details set out in the Bursar’s letter of 20
February 2001.