Conditions Compliance Assessment

Department Of Infrastructure ### Memorandum To: Jennifer Chance, Development Control Manager From: Ian Brooks, Planning Officer Subject: Compliance of conditions on 10/00149/B - Creation of a residential estate comprising 28 houses and 8 apartments with associated roads and infrastructure, Land at Pulrose Farm, Castletown Road, Douglas Date: To consider the submission of details in accordance with Conditions 3, 7, and 10 of Planning Permission 10/00149/B dated 29th August 2011. Condition 3 stated: "No development shall take place until samples of the facing, roofing and paving materials have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Planning Authority, and these works shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details." The roofing material will be a Redland Stonewold II, Slate Grey 30. The roof tile is a concrete flatprofile concrete slate. The cladding material for the development will be cedar board. A sample of cedar has been provided. The paint to be used on the render will be Keim mineral paint. The colours to be used are as follows: White, red, peach, blue, and green. A sample strip of each of the paints to be used has been submitted. The paving materials to be used are Lakeland Concrete paviors. The colours to be used are a Brindle and a Charcoal. The windows are to be powder coated aluminium. The colour will be RAL 7016 Matt. The samples submitted are considered to be acceptable and it is recommended that they be approved. Condition 7 stated: "Before the development hereby permitted commences on the site, a soil survey of the site shall be undertaken and the results provided to the planning authority. The survey shall be taken at such points and to such depth as the planning authority may stipulate. If contamination is found a scheme for decontamination of the site shall be submitted to and approved by the Planning Authority in writing and the scheme as approved shall be fully implemented and completed before any residential unit permitted is first occupied." A soil survey has found the only source of contamination on the site of Pulrose Farm has been from the tipping of waste concrete and overburden from excavations around Douglas. There was no visual evidence found of asbestos or other such contaminates that would pose risk to humans, but samples of the piles of tipped soils were taken for chemical analysis. Two of the samples showed elevated levels of lead 500 to 600 mg/kg. It is recommended that the piles of tipped rubble and soil be removed from the site prior to building work being undertaken. The details submitted are in accordance with condition 7 and are considered to be acceptable. ### Condition 8 states that: "No development shall take place until full details of both hard and soft landscaping works have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Planning Authority and those works shall be carried out as approved. Details of hard landscaping works shall include boundary treatment, footpaths, driveways and hard surfacing materials. The hard landscaping works shall be completed in full accordance with the approved details within 3 months of the first occupation of the dwellings hereby permitted; and all planting shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details in the first planting and seeding seasons following that first occupation. Any tree or shrub which within 5 years from the completion of the development dies, is removed or becomes seriously damaged or diseased shall be replaced in the next planting season with another of similar size and species, unless the Planning Authority gives written consent to any variation." ### Condition 10 stated: "No development or other operations shall be commenced on this site until adequate steps, which shall have been previously approved in writing by the planning authority, have been taken to safeguard all trees on the site together with those trees whose root structure may extend within the site, against damage or injury during construction works. In particular no excavations, site works, trenches or channels shall be cut, or pipes or services laid, or any other works carried out in such a way as to cause damage or injury to the trees by interference with their root structure and no soil or waste shall be deposited on the land in such a position as to be likely to cause damage or injury to the trees." The applicant's agent has submitted a landscaping plan the existing and proposed landscaping in relation to the development. The agent has indicated that protection measures will be in place in the form of 2m high Weldmesh fencing will be erected. Plans have also been provided showing the boundary fencing for the dwellings. It is considered the applicant's agent has provided sufficient detail for the landscaping scheme and the tree protection measures. I therefore recommend that the details for condition 8 and 10 be approved Signed. Date. Jennifer Chance Development Control Manager