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Planning Reference – 191460/DPP

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Planning Officer:  Robert Forbes

Application approved conditionally with a legal agreement.  An extra condition also to be added to read:-

“No development shall take place pursuant to this planning permission unless a scheme for the provision of electric vehicle charging infrastructure on site has been submitted to and agreed in writing by the planning authority.   The flats hereby approved shall not be occupied unless the required infrastructure / charging points  have been delivered on site and are available for use by occupants of the development.

Reason – In the interest of compliance with policy T2 (Managing the Transport Impact of Development ) and related Transport Guidance within the adopted Aberdeen City Local Development Plan 2017.  

Revised Developer Obligations

The Committee had before it a report by the Chief Officer – Strategic Place Planning, which recommended:-

That the application for detailed planning permission for the redevelopment of the site including demolition of the existing unit to form affordable residential development with associated open space, roads, access, landscaping, car parking, engineering and infrastructure works including a combined heat and power facility, at 218 Auchmill Road Aberdeen, 191460, be approved conditionally and subject to a legal agreement.

Conditions

Open Space Provision / Play Area

No dwellings hereby granted planning permission shall be occupied unless the areas of amenity open space, play areas and private garden ground as identified on Drawing No.19155(PL)002 (dated 21.02.20) of the plans hereby approved have been laid out in accordance with the approved drawing or such other drawing as may be submitted to and approved in writing by the Planning Authority. No development pursuant to this planning permission shall take place unless a scheme detailing the manner in which the play areas and open space is to be laid out and maintained has been submitted to and approved in writing by the planning authority. Such scheme shall include provision for a play area comprising at least five items of play equipment and a safety surface.

Reason - in order to preserve the amenity of the neighbourhood.

Tree Protection

No development shall take place pursuant to the planning permission hereby approved unless a further scheme for the protection of all trees to be retained on / adjacent to the site during construction works has been submitted to, and approved in writing by the Planning Authority and any such scheme as may have been approved has been implemented. No materials, supplies, plant, machinery, spoil, changes in ground levels or construction activities shall be permitted within the protected areas specified in the aforementioned scheme of tree protection without the written consent of the Planning Authority and no fire shall be lit in a position where the flames could extend to within 5 metres of foliage, branches or trunks.

Reason - In order to ensure adequate protection for the trees on site during the construction of the development.

Landscape Scheme

No development pursuant to the planning permission hereby approved shall be carried out unless there has been submitted to and approved in writing for the purpose by the planning authority a further detailed scheme of soft landscaping for the site, which scheme shall include indications of all existing trees and landscaped areas on the land, and details of any to be retained, together with measures for their protection in the course of development, and the proposed areas of tree/shrub planting including details of numbers, densities, locations, species, sizes and stage of maturity at planting. For the avoidance of doubt, the scheme should contain no open water features. All planting, seeding and turfing comprised in the approved scheme of landscaping shall be carried out in the first planting season following the completion of the development and any trees or plants which within  ...  view the full minutes text for item 4