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RESOLVED: That application 24/02606/FP be
GRANTED planning permission subject to the reasons
and conditions set out in the report of the Development and
Conservation Manager, with the following amendment to Condition 10
and the addition of Conditions 20 to 23 as follows:
 
‘Condition 10:
 
No dwelling hereby
permitted shall be occupied until the vehicle to vehicle
inter-visibility splays of 2.4 metres by x 57 metres to the eastern
direction and 2.4 metres by x 59 metres to the western direction
shall be provided and permanently maintained as shown on the
drawing (Ref-196661-001), Within which, there shall be no
obstruction to visibility between 600 mm and 2.0 metres above the
carriageway level. These measurements shall be taken from the
intersection of the centre line of the permitted access with the
edge of the carriageway of the highway respectively into the
application site and from the intersection point along the edge of
the carriageway.
 
Reason: To ensure
construction of a satisfactory development and in the interests of
highway safety in accordance with Policy 5 of Hertfordshire's Local
Transport Plan.
 
Condition 20:
 
No development shall take
place (including any ground works, site clearance) until a
Biodiversity Method Statement has been submitted to and approved in
writing by the local planning authority. The Statement shall be
informed by the November 2024 Ecological Assessment Report and
include the following:
a) Review of site
potential and constraints.
b) Details of any
necessary working methods to prevent harm to wildlife.
c) Type and source of
materials to be used where appropriate.
d) Persons responsible
for implementing the works.
 
The Method Statement must
include a timetable for the delivery of measure on site and any
agreed measures are to remain on site thereafter.
 
Condition 21:
 
No development shall take
place until an Ecological Enhancement Plan (EEP) for the creation
of new wildlife features such as hibernacula, the inclusion of
integrated bird/bat and bee boxes in buildings/structures, as
informed by the November 2024 Ecological Assessment Report, has
been submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning
authority. The agreed measures are to be implemented on site prior
to the first occupation of the first dwellinghouse hereby approved
and shall remain on site thereafter.
 
Condition 22:
 
The effect of paragraph
13 of Schedule 7A to the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 is that
planning permission granted for the development of land in England
is deemed to have been granted subject to the condition "(the
biodiversity gain condition") that development may not begin
unless:
(a) a Biodiversity Gain
Plan has been submitted to the planning authority, and
(b) the planning
authority has approved the plan.
 
The planning authority,
for the purposes of determining whether to approve a Biodiversity
Gain Plan if one is required in respect of this permission would be
North Herts Council.
 
There are statutory
exemptions and transitional arrangements which mean that the
biodiversity gain condition does not always apply.
 
Based on the information
available this permission is considered to be one which will
require the approval of a biodiversity gain plan before development
is begun because none of the statutory exemptions or transitional
arrangements are considered to apply.
 
Condition 23:
 
No development shall take
place until the details of the boundary treatment for the habitat
protection area and access to this area, are submitted to, and
agreed in writing by, the LPA and these details shall be
implemented on site before the first occupation of the first
dwelling hereby approved and thereafter shall remain on
site.’