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Full Application for the erection of a new workshop/office building, a workshop/welding building, and a vehicle wash unit together with a private fuel storage tank and other ancillary spaces

Local Member: Councillor Dewi Jones

Link to relevant background documents

DECISION: To approve

1.         5 years

2.         In accordance with the plans and documents submitted as part of the application

3.         Colour of finish to be agreed

4.         PV panel details to be agreed

5.         Carry out landscaping in accordance with the plan contained within the LVIA (Landscape Visual Impact Assessment)

6.         The Biodiversity improvements must be completed in accordance with the contents of section 4 of the ecological report

7.         Welsh Name

8.         Welsh Signs

9.         Condition for discovery of unidentified pollutants

10.       Welsh Water conditions

11.       The equipment/material to be stored in the external storage area to be no higher than 4m.

Notes:

Nature Conservation

SUDS

Major applications

Welsh Water Letter

Natural Resources Wales Letter

Full application for the erection of a new workshop/office building, a workshop/welding building and a vehicle wash unit together with a private fuel storage tank and other ancillary spaces

a)    The Development Control Team Leader highlighted that this was a full application with the intention to include the following elements: ⁠⁠

·         Workshop and Office Building

·         Workshop and Welding Unit 

·         Vehicle Wash Unit

·         External Storage Area

·         15 HGV parking spaces

·         40 parking spaces including 3 disabled and 8 EV charging points.

·         Bike storage area

It was reported that the site was located on Lôn Cae Darbi (unclassified road) on the eastern periphery of Cibyn Industrial Estate and within the Caernarfon development boundary and designated employment site. It was reiterated that the site had been used as an abattoir until recently and the buildings had by now been demolished under advance notice C22/0431/14/HD. It was noted that rubble waste and skips remained on the site following demolition and the vegetation around the site had been cut or removed. The proposal meant erecting buildings as well as using them to service and repair commercial vehicles.

In the context of visual amenities, it was acknowledged that the proposal meant constructing substantial buildings on the site, that was now visible from the Caernarfon bypass.⁠ ⁠It was also acknowledged that the site was located within an existing Industrial Estate and formed part of a designation for safeguarding B1, B2 and B8 employment uses. The buildings associated with the employment uses would be substantial in terms of their nature and the cross-section plans confirmed that the proposal in question would cause a similar visual impact to that which previously existed on the site. It was reiterated that the proposal provided an external storage area on the site, and the height of what would be stored here could be restricted to 4m by means of a Planning condition; most of the trees and hedges that surrounded the site had been felled but it was proposed to landscape the site to compensate for the loss of this vegetation.

In the context of general and residential amenities, it was noted that the site was located at least 170m away from any residential property, with the nearest houses either located on the Industrial Estate, or on the opposite side of the bypass which ran past the outskirts of the site. On this basis, and that the site was located on an existing Industrial Estate, adjacent to other existing industrial units, it was not considered that the proposal was likely to have a significantly detrimental impact on any nearby residents.

It was reported, in addition to the servicing and repairing commercial vehicles use, that it was proposed to provide 15 HGV parking spaces, 40 general parking spaces (including three disabled and eight EV charging points) and a bike storage area. It was highlighted that a Construction Traffic Management and Environmental Management Plan had been submitted as part of the application that showed that it was proposed to use the site's existing accesses and  ...  view the full minutes text for item 8