| Condition Details / Information Notes |
| The development hereby permitted shall be begun before the expiration of three years from the date of this permission.
Reason: To conform with the requirements of Section 91 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 as amended by Section 51 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004. |
| Unless where required or allowed by other conditions attached to this permission/consent, the development hereby approved shall be carried out in accordance with the information (including details on the proposed materials) provided on the application form and the following plans/drawings/documents –
Location Plan
05062025-2 - Proposed Site Block Plan
01 - Solar Array - Plan View
02 - Solar Array - Section
03 - Elevations - Relative Heights
Reason: To define the permission in accordance with Policy SWDP1 and SWDP2 of the South Worcestershire Development Plan and the relevant aims and objectives of the National Planning Policy Framework. |
| Before the installation of the solar panels hereby permitted a scheme of landscaping shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The landscaping scheme shall include:-
(i) a plan(s) showing details of all existing trees and hedges on the application site. The plan should include, for each tree/hedge, the accurate position, canopy spread and species, together with an indication of any proposals for felling/pruning and any proposed changes in ground level, or other works to be carried out, within the canopy spread.
(ii) a plan(s) showing the layout of proposed hedge planting and grass areas.
(iii) a schedule of proposed planting - indicating species, sizes at time of planting and numbers/densities of plants.
(iv) a written specification outlining cultivation and other operations associated with plant and grass establishment.
(v) a schedule of maintenance, including watering and the control of competitive weed growth, for a minimum period of five years from first planting.
All planting and seeding/turfing shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details in the first planting and seeding/turfing seasons following the completion or first occupation/use of the development, whichever is the sooner.
The planting shall be maintained in accordance with the approved schedule of maintenance. Any trees or plants which, within a period of five years from the completion of the planting, die, are removed or become seriously damaged or diseased shall be replaced in the next planting season with others of similar size and species.
Reason - To ensure the proposed development does not have an adverse effect on the character and appearance of the area in accordance with policies SWDP21 and SWDP25 of South Worcestershire Development Plan and the relevant aims and objectives of the National Planning Policy Framework. |
| Within six months of any of the solar panels/photovoltaic panels hereby permitted becoming redundant, inoperative or permanently unused, those panels and all associated infrastructure shall be removed and re-used, recycled, the materials recovered, or be finally and safely disposed of to an appropriate licensed waste facility, in that order of preference.
The land shall be returned to its former condition, unless a scheme is otherwise submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.
Reason: To ensure a satisfactory form of development, avoid any eyesore from redundant plant despoiling the countryside and its character and appearance, prevent pollution, and safeguard the environment when the materials reach their end of life, in accordance with Policies SWDP1, SWDP21, SWDP 25 and SWDP31 and the relevant aims and objectives of the National Planning Policy Framework. |
| The applicant must be aware of their obligations as follows:
No disturbance of, or change to, the surface of the path or part thereof should be carried out without written consent (this includes laying concrete, tarmac or similar).
No diminution in the width of the right of way available for use by the public.
Buildings materials must not be stored on the right of way,
Vehicle movements and parking to be arranged so as not to unreasonably interfere with the public's use of the right of way.
No additional barriers are placed across the right of way.
The safety of the public using the right of way is to be ensured at all times. The Definitive Map is a minimum record of public rights of way and does not preclude the possibility that unrecorded public rights may exist, nor that higher rights may exist than those shown.
The National Planning Policy Framework by the Ministry of Housing, Communities
and Local Government, particularly paragraph 105, states that planning policies
protect and enhance public rights of way and access.
The developer should also be aware of the Department of Environment Circular 1/09
(part 7) which explains that the effect of development on a public right of way is a
material consideration in the determination of applications for planning permission
and that the grant of planning consent does not entitle developers to obstruct a
public right of way.
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| Positive and Proactive Statement. In dealing with this application, the Council has worked with the applicant in the following ways:- - seeking further information following receipt of the application and considering the imposition of conditions.
In such ways the Council has demonstrated a positive and proactive manner in seeking solutions to problems arising in relation to the planning application. |
