Agenda item

Reference No – 131012

Planning application documents can be viewed here –

http://planning.aberdeencity.gov.uk/PlanningDetail.asp?131012

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 in respect of planning permission for the erection of 276 flats and 16 townhouses with associated infrastructure, public open space and parking subject to the modification of the existing legal agreement to secure planning gain contributions relating to sport and recreation; health facilities; community facilities; libraries; and core paths; and subject to the following conditions:-

(1)  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, as it relates to those buildings; (2)  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; (3)  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.  The scheme must also outline the measures in place to avoid endangering the safe operation of aircraft through the attraction of birds; (4)  that the development hereby approved shall not be occupied unless the car, motorcycle (including a secure fixed point) and bicycle parking areas, relating to those occupations, hereby granted planning permission have been constructed, drained, laid-out and demarcated in accordance with drawing No's. DP 522 04 Rev B and DP 522 12 Rev B 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; (5)  that no development pursuant to this planning permission shall take place nor shall the buildings be occupied unless there has been submitted to and approved in writing for the purpose by the planning authority an assessment of the noise levels likely within the proposed buildings, unless the planning authority has given prior written approval for a variation.  The assessment shall be prepared by a suitably qualified independent noise consultant and shall recommend any measures necessary to ensure a satisfactory noise attenuation for the building.  The property shall not be occupied unless the said measures have been implemented in full; (6) 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.  All landscaping plans and plantations should be considered in view of making them unattractive to birds so as not to have an adverse effect on the safety of operations at the Airport; (7)  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; (8) 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; (9)  that no part of the development hereby approved shall be occupied unless a plan and report illustrating appropriate management proposals for the care and maintenance of all trees to be retained and any new areas of planting (to include timing of works and inspections) has been submitted to and approved in writing by the planning authority.  The proposals shall be carried out in complete accordance with such plan and report as may be so approved, unless the planning authority has given prior written approval for a variation; (10)  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; (11)  that prior to the occupation of any of the flatted properties within the development, the developer shall provide the 4 car club spaces as shown on drawing: Masters4s5s6 rev A, as hereby approved, and thereafter such spaces shall be retained in complete accordance with the details as so agreed; (12)  that the development hereby approved shall not be occupied unless the refuse storage areas hereby granted planning permission, as they relate to such occupations, have been constructed, drained, laid-out and demarcated in accordance with drawing No.  DP 522 12 Rev B 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 storage of refuse ancillary to the development and use thereby granted approval; (13)  that no individual development plot shall be occupied unless there has been submitted to, and approved in writing by, the planning authority, a comprehensive Residential Travel Pack for that development plot, setting out proposals for reducing dependency on the private car.  This should also include information on external connectivity to key facilities, and, in consultation with local schools and the planning authority, information on safer routes to schools; (14)  that the buildings 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; (15) that no part of any dwellinghouse or flat shall be built below a height of 30m AOD; (16) that development shall not commence until a bird hazard management plan has been submitted to and approved in writing by the planning authority.  The submitted plan shall include details of any flat/shallow pitched/green roofs on buildings within the site which may be attractive to nesting, roosting and "loafing" birds.  The management plan shall comply with the Advice Note 8 'Potential Bird Hazards from Building Design'.  The Bird Hazard Management Plan shall be implemented, as approved, on completion of the development and shall remain in force for the life of the buildings.  No subsequent alterations to the plan are to take place unless first submitted to and approved in writing by the planning authority; and (17) that in the event that during construction, cranage or scaffolding is required at a higher elevation than that of the planned development (above 25m AGL), then their use must be subject to a separate consultation with Aberdeen International Airport.

The Committee resolved:-

to approve the recommendation.