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Site of Former Bilston Tennis Courts, Villiers Avenue / Harper Road

Meeting: 12/01/2021 - Planning Committee (Item 8)

8 20/00673/FUL - Site of Former Bilston Tennis Courts, Villiers Avenue / Harper Road, Wolverhampton pdf icon PDF 449 KB

[To consider the planning application]

 

Minutes:

The Committee considered a report regarding 20/00673/FUL - Erection of 10 two-bedroom dwellings with associated landscaping and parking.

 

Vijay Kaul, Senior Planning Officer, reported the following updates since the agenda had been published:

  1. A further representation had been received following the consultation on the amended plans raising concerns about congestion, the sewerage system and lighting.
  2. To address the lighting concerns a condition could be added requesting details of external lights to be submitted.
  3. The payment referred to at paragraph 9.3 of the report had been transferred from HRA funds to mitigate for the loss of the tennis courts.

 

Members of the Committee praised the Senior Planning Officer and welcomed the application.

 

Councillor Page moved the recommendations and Councillor Butt seconded the recommendations.

 

Resolved:

That planning application 20/00673/FUL be granted subject to the following conditions:

  • External materials
  • Levels
  • Construction Management Plan (inc operational hours)
  • Land contamination and ground gas
  • Detailed remediation scheme (coal mining)
  • Drainage
  • Landscaping
  • Tree protection measures
  • Ecological Mitigation and Enhancement
  • Visibility Splays
  • Implement access and parking
  • Agree street furniture to be removed or relocated
  • Boundary/retaining treatments
  • Electric charging points
  • Renewable energy
  • Remove PD rights for rear extensions
  • Obscure glazing / top openers (1.7m from room level) to first floor side elevation windows
  • Submission of a Passivhaus certification
  • External lighting scheme