Agenda item

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 conversion and extension of the existing nursing home into 11 flats, including demolition of previous modern extensions and the formation of parking areas, at the former Devanha Gardens Nursing Home, 9 Polmuir Road, Ferryhill, Aberdeen:-

(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 drawings No. L(20)010D and L(20)011D 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 the development hereby granted planning permission shall not be occupied unless all drainage works detailed on Plan No 901 and the submitted Drainage Impact Assessment (dated 4^th November 2013) 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.  (3)  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.  (4)  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.  (5)  That no development shall take place unless until details of the zinc cladding proposed for the entrance to 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.  (6)  That the building 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 - to ensure that this development complies with requirements for reductions in carbon emissions specified in the City Council's relevant published Supplementary Guidance document, 'Low and Zero Carbon Buildings'.  (7)  That none of the units hereby granted planning permission shall be occupied unless the cycle storage facilities as shown on drawing no. L(20)010D have been provided.  (8)  That the window(s) and dormer(s) hereby approved shall be constructed in full accordance with the detailed cross section(s) submitted and approved (as detailed in drawing nos. A(21)03 and A(21)01A with the application and that the visible part of the outer frame of the front windows hereby approved shall not exceed 25 mm in width at the top and sides of the window opening with the remainder of the frame being concealed behind the masonry window check, unless the planning authority has given prior written approval for a variation.  (9)  That the use hereby granted planning permission shall not take place unless the refuse provision as highlighted in drawing no. L(20)011D has been provided.  (10)  That the use hereby granted planning permission shall not take place until details have been provided to the planning authority with regards to the proposed lighting for the underground parking facility.

The Committee resolved:-

to approve the recommendations contained the report.

- RAMSAY MILNE, Convener.