Additional Info Requested for Discharge of Condition

[BigBub]

Hello,

 

Hope someone might have some helpful advice. 

 

We are trying to discharge a condition for a construction method statement. The condition lists the details that need to be included in the statement. The wording of the condition is as follows:

 

No development shall take place, including any works of demolition, until a construction method statement has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The approved statement shall be adhered to throughout the construction period. It shall provide for:
i) The parking of vehicles of site operatives and visitors
ii) The loading and unloading of plant and materials
iii) The storage of plant and materials used in constructing the development
iv) The erection and maintenance of security hoarding
v) Wheel washing facilities
vi) Measures to control the emission of dust and dirt during construction
vii) A scheme for recycling/disposing of waste resulting from demolition and construction works
viii) Details of working hours
ix) Routing of delivery vehicles to/from site

 

Highways have come back referring to the condition as a CTMP and requesting a drawing is submitted to show the designated parking, HGV turning, material store and wheel washing position referred to in the statement. Its a relitavely small site of 0.13ha with half of the site occupied by trees and shrubs that are to remain so a bit tricky to designate fixed areas within the site throughout the development. Would we be able to refuse to provide the drawing given that it isn't required by the condition or is it likely we would have the application refused? The site only has 6 months left to implement planning so appealing a refusal isn't an option. 

 

Thanks in advance

[G and J]

We had to provide a construction management plan, (our architect provided an example, but we dud it ourselves). You may be able to find something near to you on the planning portal.

 

Our situation is a residential street with a 7m frontage to the plot. We approached it by thinking about just how we were going to manage the deliveries, parking etc, irrespective of what we thought they were looking for, and then wrote in an "appropriate" way against their headings.

 

For us we were able to delay the building of the garage (to act as another delivery parking spot), identify where deliveries could be moved to (if necessary) at the rear of the site, commit to managing the scheduling of deliveries and numbers of people (vans) on site to ensure minimum disruption etc.

 

Our "drawing" just consisted of a planning site plan annotated.

 

Highways did come back, (in our case quickly, during the consultation period) with further requirements, so we emailed and spoke directly with them to understand exactly what they would accept and resubmitted,

 

It does all seem a pain at this stage, but in reality it was useful to think through the practicalities, and so far so good.

 

Good luck

[torre]

As @G and J says, this is all stuff that you do need to have a real plan for, so that development can run smoothly, so think in those terms not just about getting the condition discharged. I remember how much tighter our site felt once we started moving earth around and materials came in.

 

Things change so you just need to come up with a reasonably workable starting point and mark up on a site plan. Wheel washing as hard standing and a jet wash/hose near the site access etc

 

Have you already submitted a statement, is it just the plan that's missing? You don't necessarily need to provide parking for all workers for example, you can point them to nearby available parking and encourage car sharing.

 

In your case, the HGV turning and routing look like points highways will be most interested in. If you can't turn them on site then document a plan where they have to to reverse in and specify that the site manager will designate someone to help guide them, that you'll encourage deliveries to be made outside peak hours etc

[G and J]

8 minutes ago, torre said:

Wheel washing as hard standing and a jet wash/hose near the site access etc

Kev the dig, when clearing our site of concrete and foundations, suggested spreading some of the hardcore on an area for parking and deliveries.  We are on light, sandy soil with a hint of silt, and it worked a treat.  On clay it might have churned in but for us it’s meant a clean road. 
 

We also get delivery trucks to park on the road and hiab the stuff as far as they can onto site - often 10m or more.