Agenda item

P20/V0114/FUL - Jigsaw, Coopers Lane, Wantage, OX12 8HQ

Variation of Condition 2 of P18/V2756/FUL for amended plans. Proposed new dwelling, garage and partial demolition of existing dwelling with that retained to be used as an outbuilding used for storage. Retrospective (Revised site location plan received 23 January 2020, amended plans received 27 February 2020 and 18 June 2020).

Minutes:

The committee considered application P20/V0114/FUL for the variation of Condition 2 of P18/V2756/FUL for amended plans. Proposed new dwelling, garage and partial demolition of existing dwelling with that retained to be used as an outbuilding used for storage. Retrospective (Revised site location plan received 23 January 2020, amended plans received 27 February 2020 and 18 June 2020) at Jigsaw, Coopers Lane, Wantage.

 

Consultations, representations, policy and guidance, and the site’s planning history were detailed in the officer’s report, which formed part of the agenda pack for the meeting.

 

The planning officer reported that a site visit had taken place in respect of the application on 28 September 2020.

 

The planning officer reported that one of the main reasons for the previous deferral of this application was that there were doubts regarding the accuracy of the plans as presented, and that work had continued to be carried out on the development. The most recent site visit had confirmed that the house had been completed, and the applicants had mostly moved in. The balcony element had originally proved problematical, owing to possible intrusion upon neighbours’ privacy. As currently constructed, the use of the balcony posed no threat to the privacy of adjacent neighbours. Recommended Condition 5 had been amended to ensure that at such time that the balcony was extended to the eastern elevation, the privacy screen would be installed to the 1800mm height required. It was considered that this condition would be sufficient to protect the privacy of neighbours.

 

The planning officer reported that in respect of design changes to the proposal, these complied with the Local Plan and had minimal impact on local amenity.

 

Mr Matt Turner, a local resident, spoke objecting to the application. The democratic services officer reported that Mr. Turner’s statement had been sent to committee by prior to meeting.

 

Councillor Andy Crawford, a local ward councillor, spoke to the application.

 

In response to a question from the committee regarding a water pipe discharging into an adjacent ditch, the planning officer reported that this activity had commenced prior to the application being made. This would not normally be an action controlled by any planning permission. The Oxfordshire County Council were monitoring the situation and would be issuing a licence in due course when satisfied.

 

In response to a question regarding sound proofing to the garage, the planning officer reported that the council’s building control function would cover the installation of acoustic materials. In any event, the level of insulation to an outbuilding would be different to that applied to a residential building.

 

The committee were concerned at the owner’s apparent transgressions of planning regulation historically, and were apprehensive about the possible use of the garage for residential purposes. The senior planning officer advised the committee that speculating about the applicant’s behaviour could not be considered by the committee under planning regulation. Permission had already been given for the built dwelling and the committee were requested to consider design issues and the impact on neighbouring amenities. In respect of noise issues, which were the expressed concerns of some committee members, the council’s environmental health function would be best placed to consider this matter as and when it arose. Additionally, the extra massing of the development was not an issue.

 

The committee were concerned, in the interests of highway safety, about the final completion of parking and vehicular arrangements, and considered that recommended condition 2 should be amended to require, within three months of permission, that the new vehicular access, parking area/spaces and turning space should be constructed and the visibility splays provided.

 

A motion moved and seconded, to grant planning permission, subject to the amendment to condition 2 described immediately above, was declared carried on being put to the vote.

 

RESOLVED: to grant planning permission for application P20/V0114/FUL subject to the following conditions:

 

Standard:

 

1.    Approved plans

 

Compliance:

 

2.   Access, parking and turning in accordance with plan (with ‘3 months’ amendment)

3.    Materials in accordance with approved details

4.    Garage accommodation – removal of PD rights.

5.    Install timber privacy screen on balcony

6.    Demolition in accordance with agreed details

7.    Party Wall acoustics in accordance with agreed details

8.    Work in accordance with Arboricultural Method Statement

9.    Garage and retained part of bungalow to have ancillary use only

10.  Retained building in accordance with approved details

 

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