Issue - meetings

Creation of vehicle access and dropped kerb onto Henderson Place at 318 Toms Lane, Kings Langley.

Recommendation: that planning permission be granted.

The application was for creation of vehicle access and dropped kerb onto Henderson Place at 318 Toms Lane, Kings Langley.

The Planning Officer provided updates as follows:

·       The report should have included reference to Policy DM11 of the Development Management Policies Local Development Document, of which paragraph B stated that ‘un-coordinated and ad-hoc proposals for vehicle crossovers which involve fragmentation and loss of grass verges and other spaces will be discouraged.’ In the event of approval Condition 2 would need to be updated to include reference to Policy DM11 in the reason for the condition.

·       Condition 3 required an amendment to substitute ‘before any building operations’ with ‘before any above ground works’ and an informative should be included referring to the fact that the applicant would need to apply to Three Rivers District Council Property Services for approval for a crossover.

Committee Members asked questions about the detail of the application which were responded to by officers.  The Committee’s discussions included the following:

·        A Committee Member noted that Condition 4 referred to a requirement that ‘the development shall not be occupied until visibility splays have been provided in accordance with the approved details.’  It was agreed that this should be amended to refer to prior to first use of the crossover.

Councillor Drury moved, and Councillor King seconded, that planning permission be granted subject to conditions and the following amendments to conditions:

·       an update to Condition 2 to refer to Policy DM11 of the Development Management Policies Local Development Document;

·       an update to Condition 3 to refer to above ground works and an additional informative advising that consent from Three Rivers District Council Property Services was required; and

·       an update to Condition 4 to require visibility splays to be provided prior to first use of the vehicle access following installation of the dropped kerb.

On being put to the vote this was carried unanimously.

RESOLVED: that planning permission be granted subject to conditions and the following amendments to conditions:

·       an update to Condition 2 to refer to Policy DM11 of the Development Management Policies Local Development Document;

·       an update to Condition 3 to refer to above ground works and an additional informative advising that consent from Three Rivers District Council Property Services was required; and

·       an update to Condition 4 to require visibility splays to be provided prior to first use of the vehicle access following installation of the dropped kerb.