Agenda item

Planning Reference – 140924

The documents associated with this application can be found at:-

http://planning.aberdeencity.gov.uk/PlanningDetail.asp?ref=140924

Case Officer – Paul Williamson

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 planning permission for the sub-division of the existing wholesale cash and carry (Class 6 - Storage and Distribution) of 10,252 square metres (inclusive of mezzanine level) to form two separate units with one of 4,502 square metres being retained for wholesale use, and the larger (southern) unit of 5,750 square metres being used for Class 1 retail purposes, but to withhold the issue of the consent document until the applicant had entered into a legal agreement with the Council regarding (1) developer contributions towards the Strategic Transport Fund; and (2) developer contributions towards mitigation on the local roads network together with the provision of infrastructure, and subject to the following conditions:-

(1)  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; (2) That no development shall take place unless a scheme of all drainage works designed to meet the requirements of Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems 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; (3) That the use hereby granted planning permission shall not be occupied unless a scheme detailing cycle storage provision has been submitted to, and approved in writing by the planning authority, and thereafter implemented in full accordance with said scheme; (4) 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; (5)  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; (6) That the development hereby approved shall not be occupied unless the car parking areas hereby granted planning permission have been constructed, drained, laid-out and demarcated in accordance with drawing no. Proposed Site Plan A5128/P(--) 06 Rev 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; (7)  That no other development in connection with the permission hereby approved shall take place and the access/egress hereby approved shall not be brought into use unless visibility of 60 metres in both directions along the public road has been provided from a point 4.5 metres measured at right angles from the existing carriageway surface along the centre line of the approved new access. Once formed, the visibility splays shall be permanently retained thereafter and no visual obstruction of any kind shall be permitted within the visibility splays so formed; (8) That the use hereby granted planning permission shall not take place unless the recycling facility has been provided in complete accordance with drawing no. Proposed Site Plan A5128/P(--) 06 Rev 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 recycling; and (9) The floorspace of the proposed development hereby permitted shall be restricted to 5,750 square metres (GFA) of Class 1 retail for the sale of 70% convenience and 30% comparison goods, and shall be used for no other purpose.

The Committee resolved:-

to approve the application.