Agenda item

Reference Number - 111305

The Sub Committee had before it a report by the Head of Planning and Sustainable Development which recommended:-

that the Sub Committee  express a willingness to approve the application in respect of planning permission for the erection of 34 dwellinghouses including parking, roads infrastructure and landscaping, with consent to be withheld until a legal agreement is secured to deliver affordable housing and planning gain contributions towards a new northbound lane on Wellington Road, sport and recreation facilities, library provision, community facilities and core paths, subject to the following conditions:-         

(1)  That no residential unit within the development hereby approved shall be occupied unless the spine road and associated footways as shown on drawings 1010065-L(--)004 Rev F and 1010065-L(-)059 Rev C of application 110063 have been constructed in full accordance with the approved plans to the legal boundary of planning application 110063 (even if this requires the demolition of a mutually owned wall) unless the planning authority has given written consent for a variation; (2)  That no development pursuant to the planning permission hereby approved shall take place unless traffic orders have been promoted to (i) stop up the existing junction of Whitehills Road and Wellington Road;(ii) make the length of Whitehills Road, from its junction with the unsurfaced track that leads to Langdykes Road to its junction with Cove Road, a no through road (residents and emergency access only); and (iii) make the length of unsurfaced track from Whitehills Road to its junction with Langdykes Road a route for pedestrians and cyclists only (no vehicles) unless the planning authority has given written consent for a variation; (3)  That no residential unit within the development hereby approved shall be occupied unless a paved and lit combined footway/cycleway link from the new community to the footway of Langdykes Road has been constructed via the existing route of the track that links Whitehills Road to Langdykes Road and in accordance with a further detailed scheme that has been submitted to, and approved in writing by, the planning authority; unless the planning authority has given written consent for a variation; (4)  That no development pursuant to the planning permission hereby approved shall take place unless a site specific Environmental Management Plan for construction work has been submitted to and approved in writing by the planning authority (in consultation with SEPA and other agencies). The plan will, inter alia, detail measures, including mitigation and monitoring, to minimise odour and dust and to control noise from plant, equipment and site operations to prevent any nuisance or public health risk on the occupants of adjacent residential properties. It will include a construction method plan detailing the impacts of heavy vehicles and any machinery to be operated including the timings and routings of lorry movements to and from the site with the aim of minimising movement along residential streets. No development shall be carried out unless in accordance with the approved plan, unless a variation has been approved in writing by the planning authority; (5)  That no development pursuant to the planning permission hereby approved unless a full site waste management plan for the processing of construction and demolition waste has been submitted to and approved in writing by the planning authority. No work shall be carried out unless in accordance with the approved plan unless the planning authority has given written consent for a variation; (6)  That, except as the planning authority may otherwise agree in writing, no construction or demolition work shall take place(a) outwith the hours of 7.00am to 7.00pm Mondays to Fridays;(b)  outwith the hours of 9.00am to 4.00pm Saturdays; or(c)  at any time on Sundays,except (on all days) for works inaudible outwith the application site boundary.  [For the avoidance of doubt, this would generally allow internal finishing work, but not the use of machinery];(7)  That 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 hard and soft landscaping for the site (including the stopped up section of Whitehills Road and the landscape belt surrounding the application site), which scheme shall include(i)  the materials to be used for all hard surfaces including footpaths; (ii) detailed specification of children's play equipment; (iii) 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 (iv)  the proposed areas of tree/shrub planting including details of numbers, densities, locations, species, sizes and stage of maturity at planting;(8)  That no part of the development hereby approved shall be occupied unless a plan and report illustrating appropriate management proposals for the care and maintenance of all trees to be retained and any new areas of planting, including the landscaped areas outwith the application site (to include timing of works and inspections) has been submitted to and approved in writing by the planning authority. The proposals shall be carried out in complete accordance with such plan and report as may be so approved, unless the planning authority has given prior written approval for a variation;(9)  That 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 a period of five years from the completion of the development die, are removed or become seriously damaged or diseased shall be replaced in the next planting season with others of a size and species similar to those originally required to be planted, or in accordance with such other scheme as may be submitted to and approved in writing for the purpose by the planning authority;(11) That that no development pursuant to the planning permission hereby approved shall take place unless a scheme of street and footpath lighting has been submitted to, and approved in writing by the planning authority. No development shall be carried out unless in full accordance with the scheme of lighting approved in writing by the planning authority; (12)  That no development pursuant to the planning permission hereby approved shall take place unless a finalised SUDS scheme has been submitted for the written approval of the planning authority, in consultation with SEPA, and all work shall be carried out in accordance with the approved scheme. No residential unit within the development shall be occupied unless the SUDS scheme has been implemented in accordance with the approved details;(13)  That no development pursuant to the planning permission hereby approved shall take place unless further detailed plans showing the provision of facilities for the storage of domestic waste and recycleable material have been submitted to, and approved in writing by, the planning authority;(14)  That no development pursuant to the planning permission hereby approved shall take place unless a further detailed specification of the energy and water saving measures that would be installed in every residential unit is submitted to and approved in writing by the planning authority and no residential unit shall be occupied unless these have been installed, unless the planning authority has given written consent for a variation;(15)  That no development pursuant to the planning permission hereby approved shall take place unless an air quality assessment has been submitted to and approved in writing by the planning authority to quantify  the impact of increased traffic, particularly on the Wellington Road AQMA. The assessment should be in accordance with the Environmental Protection UK Development Control:  Planning for Air Quality (2010) Update; (16)  That no development shall take place within the application site until the applicant has secured the implementation of a programme of archaeological work which shall include post-excavation and publication work in accordance with a written scheme of investigation which has been submitted by the applicant and approved by the planning authority;(17)  That no development pursuant to the planning permission hereby approved shall take place unless in full accordance with the plans and drawings listed at the bottom of this decision document, unless the planning authority has given written consent for a variation; and (18) That no development pursuant to this planning permission shall take place, nor shall any part of the development hereby approved be occupied, unless there has been submitted to and approved in writing by the planning authority, a detailed scheme of site and plot boundary enclosures for the entire development hereby granted planning permission. None of the buildings hereby granted planning permission shall be occupied unless the said scheme has been implemented in its entirety.

The Sub Committee resolved:-

to approve the recommendation.