Agenda item

Reference No – 140229

Planning application documents can be viewed here –

http://planning.aberdeencity.gov.uk/PlanningDetail.asp?ref=140229

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 a five storey (with basement) office building with associated car parking and landscaping, but to withhold the issue of the consent documents until the applicant provided financial contributions towards the core path network, subject to the following conditions:-

(1)  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; (2)  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 (SUDS) 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; (3)  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; (4) That no development (other than site preparation and ground works) shall take place until details of all boundary treatments have 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 (other than site preparation and ground works) shall take place until a scheme of all external finishing/planting to the walls of the decked car park 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; (6)  That no development shall take place until a Construction Method Statement (CMS) has been submitted to, and approved in writing by the planning authority in consultation with SEPA. All works on site must be undertaken in accordance with the approved CMS unless otherwise agreed in writing with the planning authority; (7)  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 the Travel Plan and Transport Statement (May 2014 - Revision B); and (b) must outline sustainable measures to deter the use of the private car, in particular single occupant trips and provide detailed monitoring arrangements, modal split targets and associated penalties for not meeting targets; (8)  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 (i) 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; (ii) tree/shrub planting including details of numbers, densities, locations, species, sizes and stage of maturity at planting;

and (iii) the proposed materials to be used to surface areas of hard landscaping has been submitted to and approved in writing by the planning authority;  (9)  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; and (10)  That no part of the office building hereby approved shall be occupied unless the vehicular parking, motorcycle parking and cycle parking has been constructed, drained, laid-out and demarcated in accordance with drawing A1-01-02 (Revision A), or such other drawings as may subsequently be approved in writing by 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.

INFORMATIVE

That, except as the planning authority may otherwise agree in writing, no construction or demolition work shall take place:

(a)  outwith the hours of 7.00am to 7.00pm Mondays to Fridays;

(b)  outwith the hours of 9.00am to 4.00pm Saturdays; or

(c)  at any time on Sundays

except (on all days) for works inaudible outwith the application site boundary.  [For the avoidance of doubt, this would generally allow internal finishing work, but not the use of machinery].

The Committee resolved:-

to approve the recommendation.