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 erection of a 4 storey office building (Class 4 - Business) incorporating basement car parking and landscaping at the land adjacent to Scott House, Site 38, Hareness Road, Altens Industrial Estate, Aberdeen but to withhold the issue of the consent document until (1) the applicant has entered into a memorandum of agreement with the Council to secure the provision of:- (a) a new public car park on land between Wellington Road and Altens Farm Road; and (b) improvements to the section of core path 103 between Wellington Road and Tullos Hill and (2) the applicant has entered into a Section 75 legal agreement to:- (a) secure a financial contribution towards the strategic transport fund; and (b) secure a financial contribution towards planned improvements to Wellington Road.

(1)  That no development shall take place unless a scheme of all drainage works (including calculations as necessary) designed to meet the requirements of Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems has been submitted to and approved in writing by the planning authority.  Thereafter no part of the office building shall be occupied unless the drainage has been installed in complete accordance with the said scheme, unless a written variation has been granted by the planning authority.  (2)  That no development (other than site preparation and ground works) shall take place unless a scheme for all proposed external lighting has been submitted to and approved in writing by the planning authority.  Thereafter no part of the office building shall be occupied unless the external lighting has been installed in complete accordance with the said scheme, unless a written variation has been granted by the planning authority.  (3)  That no development (other than site preparation and ground works) shall take place unless a scheme for the relocation of the stone rubble wall which currently is located along the south east boundary of the site has been submitted to and approved in writing by the planning authority.  Thereafter no part of the office building shall be occupied unless the wall has been rebuilt in accordance with the said scheme, unless a written variation has been granted by the planning authority.  (4)  That no development (other than site preparation and ground works) shall take place unless a scheme of 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.  Thereafter the development shall be carried out in accordance with the details so agreed.  (5)  That no development shall take place unless a site specific construction environmental management plan (CEMP) has been submitted to and approved in writing by the planning authority in consultation with SEPA.  The CEMP must address the following issues (a) surface water management, (b) site waste management, (c) watercourse engineering, and (d) borrow pits.  Thereafter all works on site must be undertaken in accordance with the approved CEMP unless otherwise agreed in writing by the planning authority.  (6)  That no part of the office building shall be occupied unless there has been submitted to and approved in writing a detailed occupier specific green travel plan which (a) shall be in general accordance with the travel plan framework included within Transport Assessment 100924/ED/T/R01 dated September 2013 and produced by Fairhurst and (b) must outline sustainable measures to deter the use of the private car, in particular single occupant trips and provides detailed monitoring arrangements, modal split targets and associated penalties for not meeting targets.  (7)  That no development (other than site preparation and ground works) shall take place unless a further detailed scheme for the landscaping for the site (which shall include (a) 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, (b)  tree/shrub planting including details of numbers, densities, locations, species, sizes and stage of maturity at planting and (c) the proposed materials to be used to surface areas of hard landscaping) has been submitted to and approved in writing by the planning authority.  (8)  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.  (9)  That no part of the office building shall be occupied unless the mitigation works to the A956 Wellington Road / Hareness Road junction have been completed in accordance with the proposals shown on Fairhurst drawing 100924/003C, or such other drawings as may subsequently be approved in writing the planning authority.  (10)  That no part of the office building shall be occupied unless the proposed public car park on the Council owned land at Altens Farm Road has been completed in accordance with the details shown on Hirst Landscape Architects drawing 1283 03C, or such other drawings as may subsequently be approved in writing the planning authority.  (11)  That no part of the office building shall be occupied unless the proposed improvements to Core Path 103 (Wellington Road to Balnagask) have been completed in accordance with the details shown either on (a) Hirst Landscape Architects drawing 1283 02B; or as the case may be (b) Hirst Landscape Architects drawing 1283 06A, or such other drawings as may subsequently be approved in writing the planning authority.  (12)  That no part of the office building shall be occupied unless the vehicle and motorcycle parking approved under planning application P131497 has been constructed, drained, laid-out and demarcated in accordance with Michael Laird Architects drawing ADH1.AR(PL)003_B, or such other drawings as may subsequently be approved in writing the planning authority.  Thereafter such areas shall not be used for any purpose other than the parking of vehicles, cycles and motorcycles ancillary to the approved office development.  (13)  That no part of the office building shall be occupied unless the surface and basement vehicle, cycle and motorcycle parking has been constructed, drained, laid-out and demarcated in accordance with Michael Laird Architects drawings ADH.AR(PL)003_C and ADH.AR.(PL)004_B or such other drawing approved in writing by the planning authority.  Thereafter such areas shall not be used for any purpose other than the parking of vehicles, bicycles and motorcycles ancillary to the approved office development.

The Committee resolved:-

to approve the recommendations contained in the report.