Decision details

NK/2022/0150

Decision Maker: Area Planning Committee Kettering

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Decisions:

hProposed Development

 

*4.2     Full Planning Permission: Change of use from dwelling (C3) to children's care home (C2). Demolition of garage and creation of parking and works to the boundary wall at 94 Finedon Street, Burton Latimer for Homes2Inspire

 

            Application No: NK/2022/0150

 

Speaker:

 

Michael Lea attended the meeting and addressed the committee as a third party objector to the proposed development stating that the application if approved would have a detrimental impact on neighbouring amenity and additional noise generated by arrival of staff would have a negative impact on residents.

 

Scott Edwards attended the meeting and addressed the committee as a third party supporter of the proposed development stating that the application represented a positive opportunity to provide good quality placements for the children of North Northamptonshire currently in care.

 

Olivia Ives attended the meeting and addressed the committee as a third party supporter of the application and stated that there was currently 1182 children in care within North Northamptonshire and there was an urgent need for placements. The application would reduce the number of children in unregistered homes and provide a place of safety for the residents.

 

Paul Cook attended the meeting and addressed the committee as the agent on behalf of the applicant stating that that the national charity had a long standing relationship with the Children’s Trust and that only local children were being housed within the local area. A commitment was also stated to address neighbour concerns and hold an open day for neighbours to meet the home manager.  

 

Decision

 

Members received a report about a proposal for which full planning permission was being sought  for the change of use from dwelling (C3) to children's care home (C2). Demolition of garage and creation of parking and works to the boundary wall.

 

Members initially raised questions regarding the crossover and the extensive use of the car parking facilities on the proposed site. It was stated to members that there would be a maximum of 9 members of staff present during the changeover period and that there was sufficient parking to allow for this.

 

Members also raised questions regarding neighbouring concerns including impact on privacy. It was noted that a strong boundary treatment was being proposed as part of the conditions.

 

Members agreed that the application was satisfactory and raised no objection in contrary to the officers recommendation to approve the application

 

Following debate it was proposed by Councillor Marks and seconded by Councillor Carter that the application be approved in line with the officer’s recommendation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was agreed that the application be APPROVED subject to the following conditions:

 

 

1.      The development hereby permitted shall be begun before the expiration of 3 years from the date of this planning permission.

 

2.      The development hereby permitted shall not be carried out other than in accordance with the approved plans and details listed below.

 

3.      No more than three residents (not including carers) shall live at the property at any one time.

 

4.      The property subject to this permission shall only be used for purposes associated with a residential care home or as a dwellinghouse and for no other purposes whatsoever.

 

5.      Works audible at the site boundary will not exceed the following times unless with the written permission of the Local Planning Authority or Environmental Health.  Monday to Friday 08.00 to 18.00 hrs, Saturday 08.30 to 13.30 and at no time whatsoever on Sundays or Public/Bank Holidays. This includes deliveries to the site and any work undertaken by contractors and sub contractors.

 

6.      Prior to the commencement of development a Demolition and Construction Management Plan shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The approved Statement shall be adhered to throughout the construction period and the approved measures shall be retained for the duration of the demolition and construction works.

 

7.      No development above slab level shall take place on site until a scheme for boundary treatment has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.   The use hereby permitted shall not commence until the approved scheme has been fully implemented in accordance with the approved details.

 

8.      There shall be no external illumination on the site at any time other than in accordance with a detailed scheme which shall first have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  The scheme shall include an assessment of the impact of the lighting on the vertical facades of sensitive properties and the measures necessary to reduce the impact.  Any lighting shall be operated in accordance with the approved details at all times.

 

9.      The development hereby permitted shall not be occupied, or the use commence, whichever is the sooner until the existing access from the site onto Finedon Street has been permanently closed.

 

10.    No other development shall take place on site until the access, including the footway and/or verge crossing, has been constructed in accordance with the approved details.

 

11.    The parking spaces hereby approved shall be provided prior to the first occupation of the building hereby permitted and shall be permanently retained and kept available for the parking of vehicles.

 

14.    The following works including the demolition or conversion of the barns as shown on the approved drawings shall not in any circumstances commence unless the local planning authority has been provided with either:

a)           A licence issued by Natural England pursuant to Regulation 55 of The Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2019 authorising the specified activity/development to go ahead; or

b)           Written confirmation from Natural England that the application site has been registered with the Bat Low Impact Class Licence scheme; or

c)           A statement in writing from a suitably qualified ecologist to the effect that they do not consider that the specified activity/development will require a licence.

 

(Members voted on the officers’ recommendation to approve the application)

 

(Voting: Unanimous)

 

The application was therefore

APPROVED

 

 

 

 

 

Publication date: 15/06/2022

Date of decision: 15/06/2022

Decided at meeting: 15/06/2022 - Area Planning Committee Kettering

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