Agenda item

Reference Number – 120481

With reference to article 20 of the minute of meeting of the Development Management Sub Committee of 14 June, 2012, wherein the Sub Committee agreed to visit the following site and determine the application at its next meeting on 19 July, 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 external alterations including:  the overcladding of the existing frontage, replacement windows and doors; the formation of 2 new openings; internal fit out of existing buildings; and the change of use from a leisure facility (Class 11) to a passenger terminal at Aberdeen Airport Sports and Social Club, Farburn Terrace, Dyce, Aberdeen, subject to the following conditions:-

(1)  That the development hereby approved shall not be occupied unless the car parking and drop-off area hereby granted planning permission have been constructed, drained, laid-out and demarcated in accordance with drawing No. 002(Rev.B) 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 for the purpose of the parking of cars and as a drop-off and collection point for passengers using the terminal.  (2)  That the terminal shall not be used 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 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.  (4)  That the terminal shall not be occupied 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.  (5)  That the development hereby approved shall not be occupied unless there has been submitted to and approved in writing a detailed Green Transport Plan, which outlines sustainable measures to deter the use of the private car, and provides detailed monitoring arrangements, modal split targets and associated penalties for not meeting targets.

The Sub Committee were addressed by the Team Leader and the Principal Engineer (Quality Standards), Enterprise, Planning and Infrastructure on the planning and traffic impact of the application.

There then followed a number of questions from members of the Sub Committee relating to the application which were answered by the officers in attendance.

The Convener concluded the visit to this particular site by reminding members that the determination of the application would be undertaken by the Sub Committee at its next meeting on 19 July, 2012.