RESOLVED:                            That the above application be granted, subject to the Conditions contained in the report of the Corporate Director – Communities:-

Proposal:

Land south of former St Johns School (north of 22 Bryneglwys Gardens) Newton Porthcawl

Subject to Conditions 1 and 2 of the report being amended and merged as follows and Condition 3 being re-numbered to Condition 2 below:

1. Notwithstanding the submitted plans, no development shall take place until a revised footpath design and alignment incorporating a scheme to control access on the approved footpath link, including bollards, barriers and enclosures has been submitted to and agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The footpath link shall be constructed in accordance with the agreed details but shall not be brought into beneficial use until the measures to control access have been implemented as agreed by the Local Planning Authority. The footpath link shall be retained and maintained in perpetuity thereafter.

Reason: In the interests of highway safety.

2. Notwithstanding the submitted plans, within 2 months of the date of this permission a revised landscaping scheme shall be submitted to and agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The scheme shall include tree planting plans, an implementation programme and details of its management and maintenance.  If within a period of 5 years from the date of the planting of any tree proposed as part of the landscaping scheme, or any tree planted in its replacement of it, is remove, uprooted or destroyed or dies or becomes, in the opinion of the Local Planning Authority, seriously damaged or defective, another tree of the same species and size as that originally planted shall be planted at the same place during the next planting season immediately following the death/removal/destruction of that tree. The approved landscaping scheme shall be carried out in the first planting season after the date of this consent and in accord with the approved details or in the first planting season following the footpath link being brought into beneficial use.

Reason: In the interests of maintaining a suitable scheme of landscaping to protect the visual amenities of the area biodiversity value of the area.