Agenda item

Reference Number - 120129

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

that the Sub Committee approve the application in respect of planning permission to extend, for a further three years, the Section 42 variation of the five year time limit condition imposed by legislation on an office development consisting of three pavilions with associated car parking, subject to the following conditions:-

(1)  That all planting, seeding and turfing detailed in the Planting Specification and Maintenance Schedule dated 18 January 2007 and shown on landscape proposals drawing 0704 (dated 17.1.07) and drawings 1006 and 1007 of the plans hereby approved (or other landscaping plan subsequently approved in writing by the planning authority), shall be carried out in the first planting season following the completion of the development hereby approved.  Any trees 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; (2)  That no development shall take place unless a scheme for the protection of all trees to be retained on the site during construction works (including the existing beech hedge along the Hareness Road and Wellington Road boundaries) has been submitted to, and approved in writing by, the planning authority and any such scheme as may have been approved has been implemented; (3)  That the use hereby granted planning permission shall not take place unless provision has been made within the application site for litter disposal and, if appropriate, recycling facilities in accordance with a scheme which has been submitted to and approved in writing by the planning authority; (4)  That no development shall take place unless a scheme of all drainage works designed to meet the requirements of SUDS has been submitted to and approved in writing by the planning authority and thereafter no part of the development shall be occupied unless the drainage has been installed in complete accordance with the said scheme; (5)  That the development hereby approved shall not be occupied unless a detailed Green Transport Plan, which outlines proposals to  encourage a modal shift towards other forms of transport other than the car, together with appropriate monitoring procedures has been submitted to and agreed in writing by the planning authority and that the offices hereby approved shall not be occupied unless the terms of the Green Travel Plan are being complied with unless the planning authority has given written consent for a variation; (6)  That the developer shall afford access at all reasonable times to any archaeologists nominated by the planning authority and shall allow them to observe work in progress and record items of interest and finds. No development pursuant to this planning permission shall take place unless written notification of the commencement date has been given to the Keeper of Archaeology, Aberdeen City Council not less than 14 days before development commences; (7)  That the development hereby approved shall not be occupied unless the car parking areas hereby granted planning permission have been constructed, drained, laid out and demarcated in accordance with drawing no. 1000 of planning application A6/2138 previously approved or such other drawings as may subsequently be submitted and approved in writing by the planning authority.  The car parking spaces must at no time be designated or allocated for specific individuals or companies and must remain available to all employees of the office buildings hereby approved unless the planning authority has given written consent for a variation.  The car parking areas shall not thereafter be used for any other purpose other than the purpose of the parking of cars ancillary to the development and use thereby granted approval; (8)  That the development hereby approved shall not be occupied unless secure covered cycle storage has been provided on the site in accordance with further drawings that have been submitted to, and approved in writing by, the planning authority; and (9) That no development shall take place unless a scheme detailing all external finishing materials to the roof and walls of the development hereby approved has been submitted to, and approved in writing by, the planning authority and thereafter the development shall be carried out in accordance with the details so agreed.

The Sub Committee resolved:-

to approve the recommendation.