Agenda item

Planning Reference – 141404

Planning Application Documents can be viewed here-

http://planning.aberdeencity.gov.uk/PlanningDetail.asp?ref=141404

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 for a change of use from medical practice to form 19 serviced apartments, but to withhold the issue of the consent document until the applicant has entered into a legal obligation with the Council to ensure that the serviced apartments remain as a single planning unit, in the ownership of the current applicant to ensure that they are not sold off separately or disposed of for any alternative use; and in order to restrict the length of occupancy of any apartment to a maximum period of 90 days, and subject to the following conditions:-

(1)  That none of the serviced apartments hereby granted planning permission shall be occupied unless the cycle storage facilities as shown on drawing L(00)001 have been provided; (2)  That none of the serviced apartments hereby granted planning permission shall be occupied unless full details for the proposed bin storage area, including boundary enclosures, as shown on drawing L(00)001 have been submitted to, and approved in writing by the planning authority, and that such approved storage area is constructed and available for use;(3)  That no development shall take place unless there has been submitted to and approved in writing a detailed Green Transport Plan (GTP), which outlines sustainable measures to deter the use of the private car. Such GTP shall be made available within all apartments at all times; (4) That no development pursuant to this planning permission shall take place nor shall the building 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 building, 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 satisfactory noise attenuation for the building. The property shall not be occupied unless the said measures have been implemented in full; and (5) That the serviced apartments hereby granted planning permission shall not be occupied unless a servicing plan for the proposal has been submitted to, and approved in writing, by the planning authority.

INFORMATIVES

1.            It should be noted that the serviced apartments hereby approved shall form a single planning unit and shall not be disposed of independently one from the other without the prior consent in writing of the planning authority. Furthermore the serviced apartments hereby approved shall be used solely for that purpose for a maximum of 90 days by the same occupants. These aspects are covered through the associated s75 legal agreement.

2.            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].

3.            The applicant should discuss the content of the required Green Travel Plan with Richard Bailie in the Roads Projects Team.

4.            The applicant should discuss the content of the required Noise Assessment with Andrew Gilchrist in the Council’s Environmental Health Service.

Councillor Jennifer Stewart expressed concern at the possibility of the serviced apartments being used inappropriately, as had been alleged at serviced apartments in the west end of the city, and that a minimum period of occupancy could not be enforced as she felt this would help combat the issue. Councillor Jennifer Stewart requested that her concerns be recorded in the minute and this was accepted.

The Committee resolved:-

to approve the recommendation.