Agenda item

Installation of 8no. timber columns (maximum height 5 metres)  with 8no. LED lighting units (148w each) within the existing school car park fronting Winkfield Row.

Installation of 8no. timber columns (maximum height 5 metres)  with 8no. LED lighting units (148w each) within the existing school car park fronting Winkfield Row.

A site visit had been held on Saturday, 10 February 2019, which had been attended by Councillors Angell, Mrs Angell, Brossard, Dudley, Gaw, Mrs Hayes MBE, Kennedy, Mrs McKenzie, Mrs McKenzie Boyle and Phillips.

The Committee noted:

• The supplementary report of the Head of Planning tabled at the meeting.
• The comments of Winkfield Parish Council.
• Eight letters of objection received from local residents, as summarised in the Agenda papers.

RESOLVED that the application be APPROVED subject to the following conditions amended, added to or deleted as the Head of Planning considers necessary:-

01. The development hereby permitted shall be begun before the expiration of three years from the date of this permission.

REASON: To comply with Section 91 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990

02.  The development hereby permitted shall be carried out only in accordance with the following approved plans and other submitted details.

001 PL01 Location Plan - LPA received 16.11.16

005 PL/03 Proposed Car Park Lighting Plan - LPA received 13.02.19

Lambrook School Car Park Lighting Scheme dated 27.11.2018

Time Switch Technical Specification (Sangamo) - LPA received 02.06.17

Photocell Technical Specification (Royce Thompson -Oasis 2000) - LPA received 02.06.17

010 PL/00 Existing & Proposed Cable Ducting Routes - LPA received 02.06.17

Bat Mitigation and Enhancement Plan dated 22 September 2016

REASON: To ensure that the development is carried out only as approved by the Local Planning Authority.

03.  The development shall be carried out in accordance with the approved materials.   

REASON: In the interests of the visual amenities of the area.                                 

[Relevant Policies: BFBLP Saved Policy EN20, Core Strategy DPD Policy CS7]

04. The Lighting scheme hereby permitted for the school car park shall only be illuminated as follows and controlled by a time switch and light sensor.

(i) 1^st October – 15^th March, Monday- Friday between 07:15 hours – 08:30 hours and 16:00 hours – 19:00 hours; and

(ii) other school related events requiring lighting as hereby approved which will need to be first agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority in advance of each school year.

The lighting scheme shall thereafter always be controlled in accordance with the approved details.

REASON: In the interests of nature conservation and the amenities of the neighbouring residential properties and character of the area.

[Relevant Policies: BFBLP EN20 and EN15]

05. All existing lighting within the car park shall be removed no later than the first use of the car park lighting scheme hereby approved.

REASON: In the interests of nature conservation and the amenities of the neighbouring residential properties and character of the area.

[Relevant Policies: BFBLP EN20 and EN15]

06. No development shall commence until details of all new excavations relating to the approved lighting scheme, and designed to minimise their adverse impact on tree roots, have beensubmitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  Details shall be site specific and include: -

An approved layout plan at a minimum scale of 1:200 scale, showing the accurate trunk positions and branch spreads of existing retained trees in relation to the proposals.

a)         Layout and construction profile drawing/s.

b)         Engineering/ Arboricultural construction method statement.

c)         Implementation method statement including timing/ phasing of works.

The excavations shall be implemented in full accordance with the approved details.

REASON: - In order to safeguard tree roots and thereby safeguard trees considered worthy of retention in the interests of visual amenity of the area.

[Relevant Policies: BFBLP EN1, EN20 and CSDPD CS7]

07. The lighting scheme hereby permitted shall not be begun until:-

(i) further bat surveys have been  undertaken on the tree (T1) in the car park where a hole was seen during the ecologists site visit (as identified on Arbtech Plan at Appendix 3 of the Bat Mitigation and Enhancement Plan dated 16 August 2016) and

(ii) the further survey has been submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority, and

(iii) either the Local Planning Authority have agreed that no relocation of bats is necessary or the relocation of an bats has been achieved in accordance with mitigation and monitoring proposals previously submitted in writing to and approved by the Local Planning Authority.

REASON: In the interests of nature conservation

[Relevant Plans and Policies: Core Strategy CS1]