Planning precedent report

The development will consist of a cemetery including: 8,047 No. traditional burial plots; Columbarium walls; 1 single storey reception building (214.7m2 Gross Floor Area (GFA)) comprising a reception, 1 office, 1 reception store, WC, kitchenette with photovoltaic (PV) solar panels at roof level; and the provision of an ancillary maintenance shed, bin and battery storage structures; The development includes a new vehicular access road from Garters Lane to the N7 /M7 Naas Road, with 2 vehicular access points serving the proposed cemetery; 110 car parking spaces (25 spaces to the east of the reception building and 85 within overflow car park areas to the south of the development); 8 bicycle parking stands; and all associated hard and soft landscape and boundary treatment works including the reshaping of an existing lake and provision of a footbridge; provision of SUDS measures, associated lighting, associated signage, site services (foul and surface water drainage and water supply); and all other associated site excavation, infrastructural and site development works above and below ground.

Installation of 360 PV solar panels covering an area of 720 sq.m on roof; all associated site and development works.

Provision of a single storey substation including switch room.

Replacement of non-original PVC windows with timber sash windows with thermally efficient slim-line double glazing in the protected structure and ancillary landscaping; retention of single storey pavilion incorporating open plan kitchen / dining / living room to rear of the house and minor internal alterations for senior parental accommodation and permission for alterations to elevational treatment of pavilion and garage.

Provision of public concert use at the Convention Centre.

A new vehicular entrance and boundary fence to new display surface car parking, on 0.15ha of vacant land, located west of the existing car parking including a 6m high internally illuminated signage totem and tensile fabric canopy structures. Extension of existing workshop by 208sq.m located to the north of Block B and extension of 106sq.m for new vehicle preparation to the north of Block B and internal alterations including a trade parts counter and a new double door on the west elevation of the showroom building, known as Block B, a two storey extension matching the existing height of Block C of 692sq.m to the north of the servicing area of the building known as Block C for vehicle servicing and waiting facilities and an external canopy structure of 200sq.m to the east elevation of the existing parts building known as Block A on an overall site of 2.257ha.