Agenda item

With reference to article 10 of the minute of meeting of the Development Management Sub Committee of 22 August, 2013, wherein the Sub Committee agreed to visit the site, the Sub Committee had before it a report by the Head of Planning and Sustainable Development which recommended:-

a willingness to approve, subject to conditions (as detailed below) with consent being withheld pending satisfactory conclusion of a planning agreement relating to the payment of monies in connection with developer contributions and affordable housing provision for the replacement of a house and the construction of 5 additional dwellings with associated infrastructure, improved accesses and tree protection works at Edgehill House, North Deeside Road, Milltimber, Aberdeen, subject to the following conditions:-

(1)  That no development shall be undertaken until such time as the existing bus stop on North Deeside Road has been relocated in accordance with drawing 96035/1001, or any other such drawing as submitted to and approved in writing by the planning authority for this purpose.  (2)  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.  (3)  That no development pursuant to this planning permission shall take place, nor shall any part of the development hereby approved be occupied, unless there has been submitted to and approved in writing by the planning authority, a detailed scheme of site and plot boundary enclosures for the entire development hereby granted planning permission.  None of the buildings hereby granted planning permission shall be occupied unless the said scheme has been implemented in its entirety.  (4)  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.  (5)  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.  (6)  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.  (7)  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.  (8)  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.  (9)  That no materials, supplies, plant, machinery, spoil, changes in ground levels or construction activities shall be permitted within the protected areas specified in the aforementioned scheme of tree protection without the written consent of the planning authority and no fire shall be lit in a position where the flames could extend to within 5 metres of foliage, branches or trunks.  (10)  That the dwellinghouse hereby approved shall not be occupied unless provision has been made within the site for the off-street parking of motor vehicles in complete accordance with Plan No. 1796-EHD-P03 or such other scheme as may be subsequently approved in writing by the planning authority.  (11)  That the dwellings hereby granted planning permission shall be occupied unless provision has been made within the application site for refuse storage and disposal in accordance with a scheme which has been submitted to and approved in writing by the planning authority.  (12)  That the dwellings hereby approved shall not be occupied unless a scheme detailing compliance with the Council's 'Low and Zero Carbon Buildings' supplementary guidance has been submitted to and approved in writing by the planning authority, and any recommended measures specified within that scheme for the reduction of carbon emissions have been implemented in full.

The Sub Committee then asked the officers in attendance various detailed questions regarding the application, specifically the access on to the North Deeside Road.

The Sub Committee resolved:-

that the application be deferred pending discussion with the applicant as regards the feasibility of changes to access arrangements to give a single point of vehicular access from Culter House Road and that any amended application be submitted to a future meeting for consideration.

- RAMSAY MILNE, CONVENER.