Former Pledges Mill and South Kent College Site, Victoria Road

Discharge of condition 19 (Part i and ii)

16/01167/CONK/AS

Start of Consultation: 1 Aug 2018

Original Application

Case Ref Site Description of Works Posted on
16/01167/AS Former Pledges Mill and South Kent College Site and land south of junction of Beaver Road and, Victoria Road, Ashford, Kent Full planning application for a superstore (Use Class A1) with associated parking, substation, landscaping and access work. 10 August 2016

Conditions

Sustainable construction
  1. The development (except for the substation) hereby approved shall be constructed to achieve a target Building Research Establishment BREEAM (or subsequent equivalent quality assured scheme) overall ‘Very Good’ standard comprising the following minimum credit requirements:-
    • ‘Excellent’ standard in respect of energy credits,
    • ‘Excellent’ standard in respect of water credits,
    • ‘Excellent’ standard in respect of materials credits, and
    • under criterion Ene4 (Low and Zero Carbon Technologies) (or subsequent equivalent criterion) 1 credit for a feasibility study and 2 credits for a 20% reduction in carbon emissions.

    Unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority, the following shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority within 3 months of work commencing on a given phase:-

    • A feasibility study to establish the most appropriate local low and zero carbon (“LZC”) technologies to install and which shall be in accordance with the feasibility study requirements set out within BREEAM 2011 New Construction (or subsequent equivalent requirements), Simplified Building Energy Model (“SBEM”) calculations from a competent person stating the estimated amount of carbon emissions from energy demand with and without LZC technologies installed, and
    • Details of the measures, LZC and other technologies to be used to achieve the BREEAM standard and credit requirements specified above. Within 6 months of work commencing the following shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority:
    • A BREEAM ‘Design Stage’ report and related certification produced by a registered assessor

    Thereafter, the development shall be carried out in accordance with the approved report and details and the approved measures and LZC and other technologies for achieving the BREEAM standard and credit requirements specified above shall thereafter be retained in working order in perpetuity unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

    Unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority, within three six months of occupation of the new buildings hereby approved the applicant shall have submitted to and approved in writing, parts (i) and (ii) below by the Local Planning Authority for that building: SBEM calculations from a competent person stating

    1. the actual amount of carbon emissions from energy demand with the LZC technologies that have been installed and what the emissions would have been without them and
    2. the actual amount of residual carbon emissions, and a BREEAM ‘Post Construction Stage’ report and related certification produced by a registered assessor confirming the BREEAM standard that has been achieved and the credits awarded under Ene4.

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