Decision details

A report was presented on an application for a detached new build classroom with toilets and ancillary rooms and single storey extension to existing school building to provide a new library and construction of a multi - use games area at Whalley C of E Primary School, Church Lane, Whalley, Clitheroe.

The report included the views of Ribble Valley Borough Council, Whalley Parish Council, Sport England, Lancashire County Council's Archaeological Advisory Service, Highways Development Control and County Ecology Service and 7 letters of representation received.

The Development Management Officer presented a PowerPoint Presentation showing an aerial view of the site and the nearest residential properties. The committee was also shown an illustration of the site layout plan, the proposed buildings and photographs of the site and access roads.

Following lengthy debate on the application and questions to the officers with regard to the materials for the proposed extension and the multi - use games area, it was agreed that conditions 4 and 5 of the proposed planning permission be amended as follows:

'4.  No development shall commence until details of the materials to be used for the external elevations of the detached new build classroom and single storey extension have been submitted to and approved in writing by the County Planning Authority. The materials used for the new build classroom shall consist of natural stone to match the stone materials used on the existing school building.  Thereafter only those materials approved shall be used in the development.

5.  No development of the MUGA shall commence until a scheme and programme for the perimeter fencing has been submitted to and approved in writing by the County Planning Authority. The scheme and programme shall contain details of the following:-

a)   the type of fencing to be used which shall be of a construction

 to minimise noise impacts.

b)  the heights and colours of the fencing.

Thereafter the fencing shall be constructed in accordance with the approved details'.

Resolved:- That planning permission be Granted subject to the conditions set out in the report to the committee and the inclusion of the amended conditions  as set out above.