Agenda item

This application relates to proposed car parking, security centre and ancillary development including revised internal road network. [Clifton]

Members considered a major full application for proposed car parking, security centre and ancillary development including a revised internal road network.

Officers updated Members by saying that the applicants had submitted drawings for a redesigned entrance on Wigginton Road to further increase stacking capacity for vehicles within the site.  They recommended that if Members approved the application that a surface water drainage condition should be added.

RESOLVED:             That the application be approved subject to additional conditions alongside those listed in the Officer’s report .¹

                                    Condition 7- The car parks hereby approved shall not be occupied until the areas shown on the approved plans for parking and manoeuvring of vehicles (and cycles, if shown) have been constructed and laid out in accordance with these approved plans, and thereafter such areas shall be retained solely for such purposes.

                                    Reason: In the interests of highway safety.

                                    Condition 8- Within 1 month of the car parking hereby being approved being brought into use, the use of the existing car parking being shown as removed in the supporting information shall cease.

                                    Reason: In order to ensure that the level of car parking on the site does not exceed City of York Council Annex E maximum parking standards and to encourage staff and visitors of the site to arrive by non car modes of travel thus promoting sustainable travel in line with local and national transportation policies (PPG13 Transport).

                                    Condition 9- Development shall not begin until details of the surface water drainage works have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority, and carried out in accordance with these approved details.

                                    Sufficient information should be provided by the Developer to determine the potential impact the proposals may have on the existing drainage systems,

                                    Details to include:

1.      Calculations and invert levels of the existing surface water system should be provided together with details to include calculations and inert levels of the proposals for the new development.

2.      Additional surface water shall not be connected to any foul/combined sewer, if a suitable water sewer is available.

3.      Existing and proposed surfacing and ground levels to Ordnance Datum should be specified.

4.      Details of run off rates including calculations of both the existing and proposed rates.

5.      Surface water run-off from the development shall be attenuated to 70% of the existing rate, in accordance with a scheme to reduce run off to be submitted to and agreed in writing with the Local Planning Authority (based on a 140 l/s/ha of connected impermeable areas).  If connection.  The scheme submitted shall include storage volume calculations, using computer modelling, allowing for a 1:30 year storm with no surface flooding, along with no internal flooding of buildings or surface run-off from the site in a 1:100 year storm. Proposed areas within the model shall also include an additional 20% allowance for climate change.  The modelling shall use a range of storm durations, with both summer and winter profiles, to find the worst-case volume required.

6.      Details of future management/maintenance of the proposed drainage system.

7.      All surface water from the proposed car park shall pass through petrol interceptors prior to discharge into the existing system.

Reason:  So that the Local Planning Authority may be satisfied with these details for proper drainage of the site to comply with guidance contained in Planning Policy Statement 25(Development and Flood Risk) and that provision has been made to maintain the proposed drainage system.

REASON:                  In the opinion of the Local Planning Authority, the proposal, subject to the conditions listed above, would not cause undue harm to interests of acknowledged importance, with particular reference to Highway movements and safety resulting from the amended access and layout details, visual amenity and good design with regard to the new security centre and in particular any impact the development may have on Bootham Stray, harm to protected species with particular regard to the possible presence of bats in the building to be demolished to make way for the Haxby Road car park, sustainability, with particular regard to continued cycle and public transport use and surface water drainage rates from the new car parks which may cause flooding in the local area. As such the proposal complies with national guidance in PPS1 (Delivering Sustainable Development), PPS9 (biodiversity and Geological Diversity), PPG13 (Transport) and PPs25 (Development and Flood Risk) and Policies GP1, GP15A, NE6 and T4 of the City of York Development Control Local Plan.