Agenda item

Planning Reference – 191712

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Planning Officer:  Aoife Murphy

The Committee had before it a report by the Chief Officer – Strategic Place Planning, which recommended:-

That the application for detailed planning permission for the erection of a single storey nursery with associated landscaping, fencing and associated works at Gilcomstoun Primary School, Skene Street Aberdeen, 191712, be approved subject to the following conditions:-

Conditions

1.    Materials

No works in connection with the development hereby approved shall commence unless details/the specification and colour of all the materials to be used in the external finish for the approved development have been submitted to and approved in writing by the planning authority. The development shall not be brought into use unless the external finish has been applied in accordance with the approved details.

Reason: In the interests of the appearance of the development and the visual amenities of the area.

2.    Fence Details

No works in connection with the development hereby approved shall commence unless details of the proposed means of enclosures to be erected around and/or within the site boundary have been submitted to and approved in writing by the planning authority. The building hereby approved shall not be brought into use unless the means of enclosure have been erected in accordance with the approved details. Once erected, the means of enclosure shall thereafter be permanently retained in accordance with the approved details.

Reason: In the interests of the residential and the visual amenities of the area.

3.    Arboricultural Impact Assessment and Tree Protection

No works in connection with the development hereby approved shall commence unless the following information is submitted and approved in writing by the planning authority:

a)    An arboricultural impact assessment which evaluates the direct and indirect impacts of the proposed development on the trees to be retained and proposed mitigation.

b)    An arboricultural method statement to demonstrate that operations can be carried out with minimal risk of adverse impact on trees to be retained.

c)    A method statement for any works proposed within the root protection areas of the trees shown to be retained.

d)    The position and construction of protective fencing around the retained trees (to be in accordance with BS 5837: 2012 Trees in relation to design, demolition and construction).

e)    The extent and type of ground protection, and any additional measures required to safeguard vulnerable trees and their root protection areas.

No works in connection with the development hereby approved shall commence unless the tree protection measures have been implemented in full in accordance with the approved tree protection plan. No materials, supplies, plant, machinery, soil heaps, changes in ground levels or construction activities shall be permitted within the protected areas without the written consent of the planning authority and no fire shall be lit in the position where the flames could extend to within 5 metres of foliage, branches or trunks. The approved tree protection measures shall be retained in situ until the development has been completed.

Reason: In order to ensure adequate protection for the trees and hedges on the site during the construction of development, and in the interests of the visual amenity of the area.

4.    Compensatory Planting

No works in connection with the permission hereby approved shall commence unless a scheme of compensatory tree planting has been submitted to and approved in writing by the planning authority. Details of the scheme shall include:

a)    The location of the compensatory tree planting.

b)    A schedule of planting to comprise species, plant sizes and proposed numbers and density.

c)    A programme for the implementation, completion and subsequent management of the proposed compensatory tree planting.

The compensatory tree planting shall be carried out in complete accordance with the approved scheme and any planting which, within a period of 5 years from the completion of the compensatory tree planting, in the opinion of the planning authority is dying, being severely damaged or becoming seriously diseased, shall be replaced by plants of similar size and species to those originally required to be planted.

Reason: In order to maintain woodland cover in accordance with the aims of local and national planning policies.

5.    Travel Plan

The building hereby approved shall not be brought into use unless a Travel Plan for that building has been submitted to and approved in writing by the planning authority, in consultation with the Roads Development Management Team.  The Travel Plan shall encourage more sustainable means of travel and shall include mode share targets. It shall identify measures to be implemented, the system of management monitoring review, reporting and duration of the incorporated measures designed to encourage modes other than the private car. Once approved the measures set out in the approved Travel Plan shall be implemented in full.

Reason: In the interests of encouraging a more sustainable means of travel to and

from the proposed development.

6.    Cycle Parking

The building hereby approved shall not be brought into use unless details of the cycle parking, in respect to its location and design, has been submitted to and approved by the planning authority.  Once approved the cycle parking shall be installed in accordance with the approved details and retained in perpetuity. 

Reason:  To ensure safe and appropriate facilities within the site. 

7.    Foul and Surface Water Drainage System

The building hereby approved shall no brought into use unless the proposed surface water drainage arrangements has been provided in accordance with the approved Drainage Assessment, prepared by Fairhurst, dated December 2019. The surface water drainage system shall be permanently retained thereafter in accordance with the approved maintenance scheme.

Reason: In order to ensure that adequate drainage facilities are provided, and retained, in the interests of the amenity of the area.

8.    Carbon Neutrality and Water Efficiency

No building hereby approved shall be erected unless an Energy Statement and Water Efficiency applicable to that building has been submitted to and approved in writing by the planning authority.

The Energy Statement shall include the following items:

a)    Full details of the proposed energy efficiency measures and/or renewable technologies to be incorporated into the development;

b)    Calculations using the SAP or SBEM methods which demonstrate that the reduction in carbon dioxide emissions rates for the development, arising from the measures proposed, will enable the development to comply with Policy R7 of the Aberdeen Local Development Plan 2017.

The Water Efficiency Statement shall include details of all proposed water saving technologies and techniques. 

The development shall not be occupied unless it has been constructed in full accordance with the approved details in both statements.  All measures shall be retained in place and fully operational thereafter.

Reason: to ensure this development complies with the on-site carbon reductions required in Scottish Planning Policy and Policy R7 of the Aberdeen Local Development Plan 2017.

The Committee heard from Aoife Murphy, Senior Planner, who spoke in furtherance of the application and answered various questions from members.

The Committee resolved:-

(i)            to request that officers provide information on the Denburn Health Centre and Masterplan in regard to a potential nursery that was included in the Masterplan; and

(ii)          to otherwise approve the application conditionally.