Planning Application Details

P20/S0920/FULApplication Type: Full Application (Show Map - opens in new window)
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Description
Variation of condition 2 (Approved plans) to application P19/S0010/FUL-to amend first floor en-suite to master bedroom and to create dormer window on plot 1 Demolition of existing detached dwelling and replacement with one pair of two-storey, semi-detached dwellings and one detached dwelling. (As amended by drawings received 26 June 2019, 26 July 2019 and 12 and 14 August reducing the scheme to three dwellings: one pair of semi-detached and one detached, and revising the parking and access layout).
Location
24 Woodlands Road Sonning Common RG4 9TE
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Applicant
Hazelwood Estates Holdings
23 Woodlands Road
Sonning Common
Reading
RG4 9TD
Agent
RG Butler Associates
11 Strathmore Drive
Charvil
Reading
RG10 9QT
Case Officer
Victoria Clarke
Telephone: 01235 422600
Email: planning@southoxon.gov.uk
Consultation / Notification
No further Representations on this application will be accepted.

Consultations / Notifications to date are shown below.

Name / Number
Date Sent
Response Date
 
Sonning Common Parish Council
Ros Varnes (Deputy Clerk)
Village Hall
Wood Lane
Sonning Common
Oxon
RG4 9SL
17 03 2020
04 05 2020
 
22 Woodlands Road
Sonning Common
Reading
RG4 9TE
16 03 2020
 
26 Woodlands Road
Sonning Common
Reading
RG4 9TE
16 03 2020
 
10 Sedgefield Close
Sonning Common
Reading
RG4 9TS
16 03 2020
 
23 Newfield Road
Sonning Common
Reading
RG4 9TB
16 03 2020
 
Application Type
Minor (Full Application)
Application Progress
Date Received  
6th March 2020
Registration Date  
6th March 2020
Start Consultation Period  
16th March 2020
End Consultation Period  
6th April 2020
Target Decision Date  
1st May 2020
Decision
Planning Permission on 1st May 2020
Conditions / Refusal Reasons
The development to which this permission relates must be begun not later than 30th October 2022. Reason: By virtue of Sections 91 to 95 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 as amended by section 51 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004.

That the development hereby approved shall be carried out in accordance with the details shown on the following approved plans, 1176 2D, 1176 7E, 1176 9B, 1176 9A, 1176 7D, LOC001 and 1176 5D, except as controlled or modified by conditions of this permission. Reason: To secure the proper planning of the area in accordance with Development Plan policies.

The exterior of the development hereby permitted shall only be constructed in the following materials: Plot 1: Walls: Red facing brickwork - Traditional Brick & Stone Co. - Henley blend Roof: Marley modern concrete interlocking tiles - Anthracite Plot 2: Walls: Ibstock Kingcote Grey Multi bricks Roof: Marley modern concrete interlocking tiles - Anthracite Plot 3: Walls: Red facing brickwork - Traditional Brick & Stone Co. - Henley blend Roof: Marley modern concrete interlocking tiles - Anthracite; or in materials which shall previously have been approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Reason: In the interests of the visual appearance of the development in accordance with Policy CSQ3 of the South Oxfordshire Core Strategy 2027 and Policies H4, G2 and D1 of the South Oxfordshire Local Plan 2011.

The proposed window on the first floor of the south east elevation of Plot 1, windows on the first floor of the south east elevation of Plot 3, and windows on the first floor of the north west elevation of Plot 2 hereby permitted shall be glazed in obscure glass with a minimum of level 3 obscurity and fixed shut non-opening where below 1.7 metres above the floor level of the rooms they serve. Reason: To ensure that the development is not unneighbourly in accordance with Policies G2, D4 and H4 of the South Oxfordshire Local Plan 2011.

Notwithstanding the provisions of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015 (or any Order revoking or re-enacting that Order), the enlargement, improvement or other alteration of any dwellinghouse as described in Schedule 2, Part 1, Class A of the Order, the extension or alteration to the roof of the dwellinghouse as described in Schedule 2, Part 1, classes B and C, and the provision within the curtilage of the dwelling of any building, enclosure or swimming pool as described in Schedule 2, Part 1, Class E of the Order shall not be undertaken without obtaining planning permission from the Local Planning Authority. Reason: To ensure the Local Planning Authority retains control over any future development as specified in the condition in the interests of character and amenity and in accordance with Policies D1 and D1a of the Sonning Common Neighbourhood Development Plan 2012-2027, Policy CSQ3 of the South Oxfordshire Core Strategy 2027 and Policies H4, G2 and D1 of the South Oxfordshire Local Plan 2011.

The vision splays shown on the approved plan 1176/2D shall not be obstructed by any object, structure, planting or other material with a height exceeding or growing above 0.9 metres as measured from carriageway level. Reason: In the interest of highway safety in accordance with Policies H4 and T1 of the South Oxfordshire Local Plan 2011.

Prior to the occupation of dwellings hereby permitted the proposed means of access onto Woodlands Road serving each of the dwellings shall be formed and laid out and constructed strictly in accordance with the local highway authority's specifications and all ancillary works specified shall be undertaken. Reason: In the interest of highway safety in accordance with Policies H4 and T1 of the South Oxfordshire Local Plan 2011.

Prior to the first occupation of the development hereby approved, the parking and turning areas shall be provided in accordance with the approved plan 1176/2D and shall be constructed, laid out, surfaced, drained and completed to be compliant with sustainable drainage (SuDS) principles, and shall be retained unobstructed except for the parking of vehicles associated with the development at all times. Reason: In the interests of highway safety and in accordance with Policies H4, T1 and T2 of the South Oxfordshire Local Plan 2011.

Cycle parking facilities shall be provided prior to the occupation of the development hereby approved, in accordance with details to be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority, prior to the commencement of development. Reason: To encourage the use of cycles as a means of transport in accordance with Policy T2 of the South Oxfordshire Local Plan 2011.

The landscaping scheme as shown on the approved plan 1176-17D submitted with application P19/S4636/DIS shall be implemented prior to the first occupation or use of the approved development and thereafter be maintained in accordance with the approved scheme. In the event of any of the trees or shrubs so planted dying or being seriously damaged or destroyed within 5 years of the completion of the development, a new tree or shrub or equivalent number of trees or shrubs, as the case may be, of a species first approved by the Local Planning Authority, shall be planted and properly maintained in a position or positions first approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Reason: To help to assimilate the development into its surroundings in accordance with Policies CSEN1 and CSQ3 of the South Oxfordshire Core Strategy 2027 and Policies G2, C9 and D1 of the South Oxfordshire Local Plan 2011.

The existing hedges on the land shall be protected whilst development operations are in progress, in accordance with a scheme to be first submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The agreed scheme shall be implemented prior to the commencement of the development and kept in place during the entire course of development. Where it is not possible to protect the hedges a new hedge/s of a species first approved by the Local Planning Authority, shall be planted and properly maintained in a position or positions first approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Reason: To safeguard hedges which are visually important in accordance with Policies H3 and ENVa of the Sonning Common Neighbourhood Development Plan 2012-2027, Policies CSEN1 and CSQ3 of the South Oxfordshire Core Strategy 2027 and Policies G2, C9 and D1 of the South Oxfordshire Local Plan 2011.

Prior to the occupation of the dwelling (Plot 2) hereby permitted. A single integrated bat box, such as the Schwegler 1FR, shall be installed on the south-western elevation of plot 2 in a suitable location informed by a suitably qualified ecologist. Thereafter, the bat box shall be retained on site in perpetuity. Reason: To secure net gains for biodiversity, in accordance with Policies C6 and C8 of the SOLP, Policy CSB1 of the SOCS and paragraph 170 of the NPPF.
Appeal
No appeal lodged.
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