Agenda item

Reference Number - 120584

With reference to Article 8 of the minute of meeting of the Development Management Sub Committee of 19 July 2012, wherein the Sub Committee agreed to visit the site and determine the application at its next meeting on 23 August 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 in respect of planning permission for a residential development of nine units, comprising six dwellinghouses and three flatted properties, to be built on the vacant site, subject to the following conditions and withholding consent until the signing of a legally binding agreement to secure affordable housing and developer contributions:-

(1) That no development shall take place 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 beeen approved in writing by the planning authority. Thereafter none of the units hereby granted planning permission shall be occupied unless the equipment has been installed in accordance with those approved details; (2) That no development shall take place unless a scheme for the protection of all trees to be retained along western site boundary 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. The scheme must include details of the proposed changes in ground level within the gardens of plots 1 and 2; (3)  That no development shall take place unless a scheme detailing all external finishing materials to the roof and walls (to include granite on the front elevation walls and north gable elevation) 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; (4)  That no development shall take place unless a detailed site specific construction method statement for the site has been submitted to and approved in writing by the planning authority. The method statement must address the temporary measures proposed to deal with surface water run-off during construction and prior to the operation of the final SUDS.  Such statement shall be implemented in full for the duration of works on the site; (5)  That none of the units hereby granted planning permission shall be occupied unless a new pedestrian footpath as shown on drawing 1343-P-001(Rev.G) or such other plan as may subsequently be approved in writing by the planning authority for the purpose, has been constructed or a variation granted in writing by the planning authority; (6)  That none of the units hereby granted planning permission shall be occupied unless all drainage works detailed in the Drainage Impact Assessment dated 13 June 2012 by Ramsay and Chalmers or such other plan as may subsequently be approved in writing by the planning authority for the purpose have been installed in complete accordance with the said plan; (7)  That none of the units hereby granted planning permission shall be occupied unless the car parking areas associated with that particular unit have been constructed in accordance with drawing 1343-P-001(Rev.G) 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; (8) That all planting, seeding and turfing comprised in the approved scheme of landscaping shown on drawing 1218/2 (Rev.C) by the Ross Partnership, 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; and (9) 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].

The Sub Committee was addressed by Mr Campbell, Team Leader, Planning and Sustainable Development, who summarised the application and answered questions from members relating to the application. Members also asked questions of Mr McKay, Senior Engineer, in regard to roads matters.

The Acting Convener concluded the meeting of the Sub Committee by reminding members that the determination of the above application would be undertaken by the Sub Committee at its next meeting on 23 August 2012.

- JEAN MORRISON MBE, Acting Convener.