Agenda item

Reference Number - 111196

With reference to Article 5 of the minute of meeting of the Development Management Sub Committee of 19 April 2012, 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 for the proposed residential development comprising demolition of the existing building and erection of 11 new build flats and associated car parking, subject to the following conditions, and the withholding of the issue of the consent document until the applicant has entered into a binding agreement with the Council to secure the planning gain contribution:-

(1) 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. 1012D of the plans hereby approved or such other drawing as may subsequently be submitted and approved in writing by the planning authority.  Such 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; (2) 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; (3)  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;  (4) 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];  (5)  That none of the units hereby granted planning permission shall be occupied unless a scheme detailing cycle storage provision has been submitted to, and approved in writing by the planning authority, and thereafter implemented in full accordance with said scheme;  (6) That the building(s) hereby approved shall not be brought into use unless details of the zero and low carbon equipment to be incorporated into the development and predicted carbon emissions, using SAP or SBEM calculations, have been approved in writing by the planning authority and unless the equipment has been installed in accordance with those approved details;  (7)  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;  (8) That no development shall take place unless a scheme for external lighting has been submitted to and approved in writing by the planning authority, and thereafter implemented in full accordance with said scheme; and  (9)  That no development shall take place unless there has been submitted to and agreed in writing by the planning authority a noise assessment report by a suitably qualified noise consultant that ascertains the impact on the occupants of the proposed development arising from noise generated by traffic on North Deeside Road.  The noise assessment report shall be in accordance with Planning Advice Note (PAN) 1/2011 ‘Planning and Noise’ and its accompanying Technical Advice Note and shall identify the likely sources of noise and indicate the measures to reasonably protect the amenity of the occupants of the development from all such sources of noise that have been identified.

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

That the application be approved in accordance with the recommendations contained within the report.

Councillor Boulton moved as an amendment:-

That the application be deferred to enable officers to discuss with the applicant the possibility of additional car parking spaces being included.

Councillor Boulton’s amendment failed to attract a seconder and was therefore not put to the meeting.

Councillor Boulton moved as an amendment:-

That the application be refused on grounds of insufficient parking in relation to the size of the development.

Councillor Boulton’s amendment failed to attract a seconder and was therefore not put to the meeting.

The Sub Committee resolved:-

that the application be approved in accordance with the recommendations contained within the report.

- KATHARINE DEAN, Convener.