Agenda item

Planning Reference – P151755

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

http://planning.aberdeencity.gov.uk/PlanningDetail.asp?ref=151755

Planning Officer – Nicholas Lawrence

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

That the Committee show a willingness to approve the application for the erection of student accommodation incorporating all associated infrastructure works and demolition of existing dwellinghouse, subject to appropriately worded planning conditions, but to withhold issue of the consent document until the applicant/landowner has entered into a legal agreement for development obligation payments towards core paths and open space.

(1)       Notwithstanding Drawing No: A5401/L(04)101 Rev G no development shall take place until samples of the materials (including colour of render, facing block, standing seam metal cladding, aluminium flashing, curtain walling, spandrel panel, hopper and square sections) to be used in the construction of the external surfaces of the development hereby permitted including pantone references and details of the module jointing and arrangement of the standing seam metal cladding and curtain walling have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.  The development shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details.

Reason:  To ensure a satisfactory appearance to the development and to comply with policy D1 of the Aberdeen Local Development Plan 2012 and policy D1 of the Proposed Aberdeen Local Development Plan

(2)       Notwithstanding Drawing No; A5401/L(90)01 Rev H the development hereby approved shall not be occupied until details of the form of enclosure to the refuse and recycling storage have been submitted to and approved in writing and the facilities have been fully implemented in accordance with the agreed details and made available for use. These facilities shall thereafter be retained for use at all times.

Reason: To ensure the provision of satisfactory facilities for the storage of refuse and recycling and to comply with policies R6 and D1 of the Aberdeen Local Development Plan 2012

(3)       No part of the development hereby approved shall be occupied until details of the treatment of the granite boundary wall fronting Riverside Place as shown on Drawing No: A5401/L(04)101 Rev G have been submitted to and agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority and implemented in accordance with the agreed details.

Reason: To ensure a satisfactory appearance to the development and to comply with policy D1 of the Aberdeen Local Development Plan 2012 and policy D1 of the Proposed Aberdeen Local Development Plan

(4)       The disabled parking area shown on the approved plans shall not be used otherwise than for the parking of private motor vehicle for a person holding a blue badge belonging to the occupants of and visitors to the development hereby approved.

Reason:  To ensure that adequate parking provision is retained and to comply with policy T2 of the Aberdeen Local Development Plan

(5)       The development hereby permitted shall not be occupied until the cycle parking facilities shown on Drawing No; A5401/L/(90) Rev H have been fully implemented and made available for use.  The cycle parking facilities shall thereafter be retained for use by the occupants of, and visitors to, the development at all times.

Reason: To ensure that satisfactory facilities for the parking of cycles are provided and to encourage travel by means other than private motor vehicles and to comply with policy D3 of the Aberdeen Local Development Plan 2012.

(6)       No development shall take place until there has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority a scheme for landscaping, which shall include hard surfacing, means of enclosure, planting of the development, indications of all existing trees and hedgerows on the land and details of any to be retained, together with measures for their protection in the course of development.

Reason: To enhance the appearance of the development in the interest of the visual amenities of the area and to comply with policy D2 of the Aberdeen Local Development Plan.

(7)       All planting, seeding or turfing comprised in the approved scheme of landscaping shall be carried out in the first planting and seeding seasons following the occupation of the building or the completion of the development, whichever is the sooner; 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 similar size and species, unless the Local Planning Authority gives written consent to any variation. All hard landscaping and means of enclosure shall be completed before the development is occupied.

Reason: To enhance the appearance of the development in the interest of the visual amenities of the area and to comply with policy D2 of the Aberdeen Local Development Plan 2012.

(8)       No development shall commence until fences for the protection of trees to be retained have been erected in accordance with a scheme which has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The fences shall be retained until the completion of the development and no vehicles, plant or materials shall be driven or placed within the areas enclosed by such fences.

Reason: To protect the trees which are to be retained on the site in the interest of the visual amenities of the area and to comply with policies D2 and NE5 of the Aberdeen Local Development Plan 2012.

(9)       No development shall commence on site until a scheme for surface water management, including specifications of the surface treatments and sustainable urban drainage solutions, has been submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority.  The development shall be carried out in accordance with the approved scheme and thereafter the approved scheme is to be retained in accordance with the details approved therein.

Reason: To prevent the increased risk of flooding and to improve water quality in accordance with policy NE6 of the Aberdeen Local Development Plan 2012 and policy NE6 of the Proposed Aberdeen Local Development Plan.

(10)     No part of the development shall be occupied until a Student Accommodation Management Plan has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority and shall include, albeit not limited to, details on servicing, site and landscape maintenance, social behaviour and a green travel plan.

Reason:  In the interest of highway safety and the environmental quality of the area.

Daniel Lewis, Development Management Manager, spoke in furtherance of the application and advised that an extra condition would be added in regards to the student accommodation and also an amendment to condition 10 in regards to the car parking management plan.  Mr Lewis answered various questions in regards to the application.

Gregor Whyte, Senior Engineer, also answered questions from members in relation to traffic queries and roads issues.

The Committee resolved:-

(i)         to agree that an extra condition would be added, to read “the development hereby permitted shall be occupied by students only.  In this case students are defined as those persons attending higher educational institutions within the City of Aberdeen”

Reason:  The development is not suitable in planning terms for use as permanent residential accommodation due to inadequate provision of affordable housing, amenity areas, and car parking also accommodation of students outwith the governance of the City of Aberdeen does not represent a sustainable form of development;

(ii)        to agree that condition 10 be amended to read “no part of the development shall be occupied until a Student Accommodation Management Plan has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority and shall include, albeit not limited to, site and landscape maintenance, parking and servicing management, social behaviour and a green travel plan.

Reason:  In the interest of highway safety and the environmental

quality of the area; and

(ii)        to otherwise approve the recommendation and approve the application conditionally.