Agenda item

18/00118/FUL - 51 Main Street, Desford

Application for erection of 4 dwellings (Revised scheme).

 

‘Late items:’

 

Appraisal:-

 

Impact upon Archaeology

 

Policy DM11 and DM12 of the adopted SADMP seeks to ensure that development proposals shall protect, conserve and enhance the historic environment.

 

The application site is situated within an area of significant archaeological interest as identified within the Leicestershire and Rutland Historic Record. The site is located within the historic core of Desford, close to the medieval Church of St. Martin. The church would have been a focus for settlement and activity during the medieval and post medieval periods, so evidence of this may survive on the site. In the 1960s two Roman pottery kilns, which were manufacturing pottery during the 2nd century AD, were discovered during building work c.30m to the south of the application site. Finds of Roman pottery have also been made within the locality of the area and is it possible that archaeological remains of this date are present within the application site. Early Ordnance Survey mapping shows that, although parts of the site have been built on during the 19th and 20th Centuries, large areas have remained undeveloped and therefore any archaeological remains present are likely to be preserved in situ. There is therefore potential for the presence of archaeological remains within the application area, likely to be affected by the proposal.

 

Leicestershire County Council (Archaeology) do not object to the proposal, subject to the imposition of conditions, which relates to the submission of a Written Scheme of investigation informed by an initial stage of trial trenching is submitted and approved.

 

Recommendation:-

 

Grant planning permission subject to:

 

a)         Planning conditions outlined at the end of this report.

 

That the Interim Head of Planning be given powers to determine the final detail of planning conditions.

 

Conditions:-

 

Reword and replace condition 4 with the following condition:-

 

4.           No development shall commence on site until such time as the existing and proposed ground levels of the site, and proposed finished floor levels, in addition to the submission of a proposed 3D pedestrian perspective plan from Main Street has been submitted to and agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The development shall then be implemented in accordance with approved proposed ground levels and finished floor levels.

 

Reason: To ensure that the development has a satisfactory appearance in the interests of visual amenity to accord with Policy DM10 of the Site Allocations and Development Management Policies Development Plan Document.

 

Additional new condition:-

 

14.         No demolition/development shall take place/commence until a written scheme of investigation (WSI), informed by an initial stage of trial trenching, has been [submitted to and] approved by the local planning authority in writing. For land that is included within the WSI, no demolition/development shall take place other than in accordance with the agreed WSI, which shall include the statement of significance and research objectives, and

·           The programme and methodology of site investigation and recording and the nomination of a competent person(s) or organisation to undertake the agreed works

·           The programme for post-investigation assessment and subsequent analysis, publication & dissemination and deposition of resulting material. This part of the condition shall not be discharged until these elements have been fulfilled in accordance with the programme set out in the WSI.

 

Reason: To ensure satisfactory archaeological investigation and recording in accordance with Policies DM11 and DM13 of the adopted SADMP and section 12 of the National Planning Policy Framework (2012).

 

Minutes:

Application for erection of four dwellings (revised scheme).

 

Having declared a personal interest in this item, Councillor Surtees left the meeting at 8.42pm.

 

Councillor Cook left the meeting at 8.45pm.

 

It was moved by Councillor Sutton, seconded by Councillor Ladkin and

 

RESOLVED

 

(i)            Permission be granted subject to the conditions contained in the officer’s report and late items;

 

(ii)           The Interim Head of Planning be granted delegated powers to determine the final detail of planning conditions.

 

Councillor Cook returned to the meeting at 8.46pm.

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