Agenda item

Planning Reference – 140810

Planning Application documents can be viewed here –

http://planning.aberdeencity.gov.uk/PlanningDetail.asp?ref=140810

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 the erection of 46 apartments with associated car parking, landscaping and external works, subject to the conclusion of a legal agreement to secure (a) 25% affordable housing provision on adjoining land, as described in application P141696; (b) developer contributions in relation to primary education in line with the assessment carried out by the Council’s Developer Obligations team; and the Strategic Transport Fund as advised by the Roads Development Management team;  and (c) participation in a Car Club, including leasing and associated administrative costs for a single vehicle for a period of 3 years, in order to mitigate the identified shortfall in car parking, and subject to the following conditions:-

(1)  That no development pursuant to this consent shall commence on site until a site specific Construction Method Statement 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 - In order to minimise the impacts of necessary demolition/construction works on the environment; (2) prior to the commencement of any works on site, a detailed scheme for surface water drainage shall be submitted to and agreed by the Planning Authority, in consultation with SEPA. Thereafter, all work shall be carried out in accordance with the approved scheme – to ensure adequate protection of the water environment from surface water runoff; (3) that no development besides excavations and laying of foundations 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 - in the interests of visual amenity; (4) that the development hereby approved shall not be occupied unless the car, cycle and motorycycle parking areas hereby granted planning permission have been constructed, drained, laid-out and demarcated in accordance with drawing No. L(90)-100-D 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 - in the interests of public safety, encouraging sustainable modes of travel and the free flow of traffic; (5) 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 - in the interests of the amenity of the area;  (6) 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 - in the interests of the amenity of the area; (7) 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 - in order to ensure adequate protection for the trees on site during the construction of the development;  (8) that no materials, supplies, plant, machinery, spoil, changes in ground levels or construction activities shall be permitted within the protected areas specified in the aforementioned scheme of tree protection without the written consent of the Planning Authority and no fire shall be lit in a position where the flames could extend to within 5 metres of foliage, branches or trunks - in order to ensure. adequate protection for the trees on site during the construction of the development;  (9) that no development shall take place unless there has been submitted to, and approved in writing by, the planning authority (i) a scheme for the supervision of the arboricultural protection measures and works to include the time and method of site supervision, record keeping including updates and that this supervision is administered by a qualified arboriculturalist approved by the planning authority but instructed by the applicant; and (ii) a plan and report illustrating appropriate management proposals for the care and maintenance of all of the 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 and scheme of supervision shall subsequently be carried out in complete accordance any information thereby approved in writing by the planning authority - in order to ensure adequate protection for the trees on site during the construction of the development and in order to preserve the character and visual amenity of the area; (10) that no unit within the development hereby granted planning permission  hall be occupied unless provision has been made within the application site for  refuse storage and disposal in accordance with a scheme which has been submitted to and approved in writing by the planning authority – in order to preserve the amenity of the neighbourhood and in the interests of public health;  (11) 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 - to ensure that this development complies with requirements for reductions in carbon emissions pecified in the City Council's relevant published Supplementary Guidance document, 'Low and Zero Carbon Buildings';  (12) that no unit within the development hereby approved shall be occupied until such time as a 'Car Club' only parking space has been made available at a prominent position within the application site, in accordance with site plan L(90)-100-D of the plans hereby approved, or such other plan as has been submitted to and approved in writing by the planning authority for this purpose  -in order to ensure that the identified shorftall in on-site parking is adequately mitigated; (13) 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 in its entirety - in order to preserve the amenity of the neighbourhood; (14)  that no development pursuant to this grant of planning permission shall be undertaken unless a further detailed scheme of the footpath links within areas of open space has been submitted to any agreed in writing by the planning authority, in consultation with the Council's Roads Projects Team. Thereafter no residential unit within the development shall be occupied until such time as those approved routes have been constructed and made available for use in accordance with the agreed scheme - in order to ensure that the shared surface paths are designed to the required standard, thereby enhancing recreational access and permeability; and (15) that no unit within the development hereby approved shall be occupied until the site access from May Baird Avenue and associated upgrading of May Baird Avenue to adoptable standard has been carried out in accordance with drawing L(90)-100-D, or such other drawing as has been submitted to and approved in writing for this purpose - in order to ensure appropriate vehicular and pedestrian access to the development.

INFORMATIVES

Please note that in SEPA's consultation response, it was stipulated that the required Construction Method Statement (CMS) should be submitted at least 2 months prior to the intended commencement of works, in order to give consultees sufficient time to review submissions.

The Committee resolved:-

to approve the recommendation

At this juncture, the Vice Convener vacated the Chair in favour of the Convener upon his return.