Agenda item

Erection of 4 industrial units for E(g)(iii) (light industry) use with associated parking and turning facilities with 10 storage units (within a Conservation Area) Land south of railway line, Scar Lane, Milnsbridge, Huddersfield.

Contact: Katie Chew, Planning Services.

Ward(s) affected: Golcar.

Delegate to the Head of Planning and Development to approve as detailed in

the considered report.

The Committee gave consideration to Planning Application 2022/91789 Erection of four industrial units for E(g)(iii) (light industry) use with associated parking and turning facilities with 10 storage units (within a Conservation Area) Land south of railway line, Scar Lane, Milnsbridge, Huddersfield.

RESOLVED –

Delegate approval of the application and the issuing of the decision notice to the Head of Planning and Development in order to:

1. complete the list of conditions, including those contained within the considered report, as set out below:

1) Time limit (three years).

2) Development in accordance with the approved plans.

3) Noise Impact Assessment.

4) Hours of use of the site (including deliveries and opening times).

5) Contaminated land investigation conditions.

6) Submission of a Lighting Strategy – outlining hours of operation and candelas (Environmental Health).

7) Tree Protection – in accordance with the submitted Arboricultural Method Statement.

8) Implementation of Landscape Management Plan for a period of five years.

9) Submission of a Construction Environmental Management Plan (including a schedule of the means of access to the site for construction traffic), and engagement with residents prior to submission.

10) Submission of a Stage 1 Safety Audit and Designer’s Response.

11) Submission of a scheme detailing foul, surface water and land drainage.

12) Site developed with separate systems of drainage for foul and surface water on and off site.

13) Submission of a drainage scheme to restrict the rate of surface water discharge from the site.

14) Submission of a drainage scheme which details temporary surface water drainage for the construction phase.

15) Submission of a Lighting Strategy (Biodiversity).

16) Submission and approval of samples of external materials.

17) No site clearance between 1st March and 31st August unless checked by a competent ecologist and approved by the Council.

18) 10% net gain to be achieved post-development in accordance with the Kirklees Biodiversity Net Gain Technical Advice Note.

19) Implementation of the submitted Ecological Design Strategy.

20) Conditions requested from Network Rail.

21) Provision of electric vehicle charging points.

22) Submission of details of hard landscaping throughout the site, including retention of stone setts to the entrance of the site.

23) Stone boundary wall at the site entrance to be retained (if this cannot be retained it should be rebuilt to match the layout and materials of the existing wall).

2. Secure a section 106 agreement to cover the following matter:

1. Management – The establishment of a management company for the management and maintenance of any land not within private curtilages or adopted by other parties, and of infrastructure (including surface water drainage until formally adopted by the statutory undertaker).

3. In the circumstances where the Section 106 agreement has not been completed within three months of the date of the Committee’s resolution then the Head of Planning and Development shall consider whether permission should be refused on the grounds that the proposals are unacceptable in the absence of the mitigation and benefits that would have been secured and, if so, the Head of Planning and Development be authorised to determine the application and impose appropriate reasons for refusal under delegated powers.

A recorded vote was taken, in accordance with Council Procedure Rule 42(5), as follows:

For: Councillors Armer, Crook, Pattison, A Pinnock, Sokhal, Thompson and S Hall (7 votes).

Against: (0 votes)