Description
Construction of a free-standing restaurant with associated car parking and landscaping. (As amended by letter from agent dated 8 September 1999 and accompanying drawings 06 and 07 and further amended by drawings 01/G, 08/A and 10 received from agent on 17 September 1999). (Duplicate).
Conditions / Refusal Reasons
That the development must be begun not later than the expiration of five
years beginning with the date of this permission and if this condition
is not complied with this permission shall lapse.
Reason: By virtue of Sections 91 to 95 of the Town and Country Planning
Act 1990.
That samples of the materials to be used for the external walls and roof
shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning
Authority before any development commences.
Reason: To ensure that the details of the development are satisfactory.
That a scheme for the landscaping of the site, including the planting
of live trees and shrubs, the treatment of all ground surfaces and
details of any fences or freestanding walls and a scheme of maintenance
shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning
Authority prior to the commencement of the development hereby
permitted. The scheme shall be implemented as approved within 12 months
of the commencement of the approved development and thereafter be
maintained in accordance with the approved scheme to the complete
satisfaction of the Local Planning Authority. In the event of any
of the trees or shrubs so planted dying or being seriously damaged
or destroyed within 3 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, be planted and properly maintained in a position or
positions first approved by the Local Planning Authority.
Reason: To help to assimilate the development into its surroundings.
That, within twelve months of the commencement of development, a hedge
of a species to be agreed with the Local Planning Authority shall
be planted behind the vision splay adjacent to the boundary of the
site with Oxford Road to extend and fill gaps in the existing hedge.
The hedge shall be tended to grow to, and remain at, a height of not
less than 3 metres, and that any plant which may die or be seriously
damaged within five years of completion of the development shall be
replaced and properly maintained.
Reason: To help to assimilate the development into its surroundings.
That the existing hedge along the boundary of the site with Oxford
Road shall be retained and maintained at a height of not less than
3 metres.
Reason: To help to assimilate the development into its surroundings.
That the existing trees and hedges on the land shall be protected whilst
development operations are in progress, in accordance with a scheme to be
first agreed in writing with the Local Planning Authority and to be
implemented prior to the commencement of the development.
Reason: to safeguard the character of the area.
That before any of the development hereby permitted is occupied, the
car and cycle parking and turning spaces shown on the approved plan
shall be constructed and such spaces shall thereafter be kept
permanently available for the use of employees and visitors to the site.
Reason: To comply with the Local Planning Authority's vehicle parking
standards and to protect local amenities.
That details of all external lighting including fitments and levels of
illumination shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the
Local Planning Authority.
Reason: To protect local amenities.
That details of surface water drainage works shall be submitted to and
approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority prior to the
development commencing.
Reason: In the interests of public health.
That development shall not begin until a scheme for the disposal of
foul sewage has been submitted to and approved in writing by the
Local Planning Authority.
Reason: In the interests of public health and to avoid pollution.
That the restaurant shall not open to the public until a footway
has been provided between the site and the existing footway in
Oxford Road in accordance with a scheme approved in writing by the
Local Planning Authority. The footway link shall be kept open at
all times that the restaurant is open to the public.
Reason: To ensure safe and convenient pedestrian access from Benson.