Agenda item

Reference Number - 111716

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

that the Sub Committee approve the application for a proposed replacement dwellinghouse at 39 Deeview Road South, Cults, subject to the following conditions:-

(1)  That no development shall take place unless a scheme of all drainage works designed to meet the requirements of Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems 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.  (2)  That the en-suite window in the west facing elevation of the house hereby approved shall not be fitted otherwise than with with obscure glass unless the planning authority has given prior written approval for a variation.  (3)  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 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.  (4)  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 5 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.  (5)  That no development shall take place unless a plan showing those trees to be removed and those to be retained and a scheme for the protection of all trees to be retained on 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.  (6)  That any tree work which appears to become necessary during the implementation of the development shall not be undertaken without the prior written consent of the planning authority; any damage caused to trees growing on the site shall be remedied in accordance with British Standard 3998: 2010 "Recommendations for Tree Work" before the building hereby approved is first occupied.

The Sub Committee then discussed the application and the possibility of visiting the site.

The Vice-Convener moved as a procedural motion, seconded by Councillor Donnelly:-

that the application be determined this day.

On a division, there voted:-  for the procedural motion (6) – the Convener; the Vice-Convener;  and Councillors Cormie, Donnelly, Jaffrey and Penny;  against the procedural motion (4) – Councillors Adam, Boulton, MacGregor and Yuill.

The Sub Committee resolved:-

to determine the application this day.

In terms of Standing Order 15(6), Councillor Boulton entered her dissent to the above resolution.

The Convener moved, seconded by the Vice-Convener:-

that the recommendations in the report be approved.

Councillor Boulton moved as an amendment:-

that the application be refused as it was contrary to the protection of the City’s granite heritage, it was out of character in the area, it would affect the amenity of local residents due to its height and represented over development of the site.

Councillor Boulton failed to receive a seconder and therefore her amendment was not put to the vote.

The Sub Committee resolved:-

to approve the recommendation contained in the report.