Agenda item

Reference Number – 130211

With reference to Article 4 of the minute of meeting of the Development Management Sub Committee (Visits) of 29 August 2013, the Committee had before it a report by the Head of Planning and Sustainable Development which recommended:-

That the Committee express a willingness to approve the application, subject to the conditions listed below, in respect of planning permission for the replacement of the existing dwelling and construction of five additional dwellings with associated infrastructure, improved access and tree protection works, but 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.

(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 SUDS 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 dwellings 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 not 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; and (13)  That no development in connection with this consent shall be commenced until such time as details of an appropriate 'no-dig' construction methodology for the formation of the new driveway and vehicular access have been submitted to, and approved in writing by, the planning authority. Thereafter, all works shall be carried out in full accordance with the agreed method statement, unless otherwise agreed in writing by the planning authority.

The Convener moved, seconded by Councillor Greig:-

That the application be approved in accordance with the recommendation contained within the report, and that existing bus stop on North Deeside Road be replaced with a cantilever option.

Councillor Boulton moved as an amendment, seconded by Councillor Samarai:-

That the application be approved in accordance with the recommendation contained within the report, with the exception of an additional condition with regard to a satisfactory single point of vehicular access from Culter House Road rather than North Deeside Road.

On a division, there voted:-   for the motion  (7)  -  the Convener; and Councillors Corall, Lesley Dunbar, Greig, Lawrence, Thomson and Townson;   for the amendment  (8)  -  Councillors Boulton, Cormie, Finlayson, Jaffrey, MacGregor, Jean Morrison, Samarai and Jennifer Stewart.

The Committee resolved:-

to adopt the amendment.