Agenda item

Planning Reference – 141813

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

http://planning.aberdeencity.gov.uk/PlanningDetail.asp?ref=141813

Planning Officer – Andrew Miller

The Committee had before it a report by the Head of Planning and Sustainable Development which recommended:-

That the Committee approve the application for planning permission for change of use of part of the stable building to form 14 dog kennels, subject to the following conditions:-

(1)        That the kennels shall not be brought into use unless the development has been completed in its entirety as detailed in the plans hereby approved as part of this development and shall be operated in accordance with mitigation measures as detailed in the document Noise Impact Assessment: Proposed Dog Kennels, Aberdeen Pet Resort, Milltimber, Aberdeen by CSP Acoustics dated 10 June 2015 for the lifetime of the use of the kennels, unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Planning Authority – in order to ensure the kennels are operated in accordance with the mitigation measures detailed in the Noise Impact Assessment provided with the application, the measures considered necessary to reduce noise emission from the kennels to an acceptable level, in the interests of the amenity of the surrounding area.

(2)        That the kennels hereby approved shall house no more than 14 dogs at any one time – in order to ensure the kennels are operated in accordance with the mitigation measures detailed in the Noise Impact Assessment provided with the application, the measures considered necessary to reduce noise emission from the kennels to an acceptable level, in the interests of the amenity of the surrounding area.

(3)       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.

(4)       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.

Councillor Boulton proposed that the application be deferred to allow local residents and neighbours time to undertake their own noise impact assessment.

The Committee resolved:-

to defer consideration of the application to allow local residents and neighbours to make arrangements to undertake their own noise impact assessment to be carried out by a suitably qualified noise consultant.