Agenda item

Planning Reference – 200366

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Planning Officer:  Matthew Easton

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 formation of a road with associated footways, cycle tracks, street lighting, drainage, landscaping, earthworks and associated works at road corridor between Ashgrove Road and St Machar Drive Aberdeen, be approved subject to the following conditions:-

Conditions

 (1) PHOTOGRAPHIC SURVEY

No development (including demolition or site clearance) shall take place unless a photographic survey of the existing buildings, structures, roads, routeways and their overall setting on the application site has been submitted to and approved in writing by the planning authority. All external elevations of the buildings and structures together with the setting of the buildings, structures and routeway and any unusual features of the existing buildings, structures and routeway shall be photographed. The photographic viewpoints must be clearly annotated on a plan to accompany the survey. The photographs and plan must be in a digital format and must be clearly marked with the planning reference number.

Reason – to ensure that a historic record of the building is made for inclusion in the National Monuments Record for Scotland and in the local Historic Environment Record.

(2) TREE PROTECTION

No development shall take place (including demolition or site clearance) unless the construction exclusion zones and associated protective fences have been established on site in accordance with Alan Motion Tree Consultant drawings SW-ACC-TP-04 and SW-ACC-TP-05. Thereafter, unless otherwise agreed in writing by the planning authority, the exclusion zones shall remain in place for the duration on the construction of the road.

Reason – to protect trees during the construction of the development.

(3) BAT SURVEY

No development shall take place (including demolition or site clearance) unless a further bat survey has been submitted to and approved in writing by the planning authority. The scope of the survey will be dictated by the recommendations in section 5.3.1 of Preliminary Ecological Appraisal Report ref: 65200891 by Sweco. Thereafter, development shall be undertaken in accordance with the approved bat survey.

Reason – to ensure the protection of bats.

(4) DUST MANAGEMENT

No development shall take place unless a Dust Management Plan detailing the necessary dust control measures to be implemented during development has been submitted to and approved in writing by the planning authority. The Dust Management Plan shall include and be based on an 'Air Quality (Dust) Risk Assessment' by a suitably qualified consultant to predict the likely dust levels and impact on air quality including a determination of its significance.

Thereafter, unless otherwise agreed in writing by the planning authority, the measures contained within the Dust Management Plan shall remain in place for the duration on the construction of the road.

Reason – to protect the surrounding receptors from dust.

(5) DRAINAGE

No development shall take place unless a detailed scheme of all drainage works, in accordance with the principles contained within the Flood Risk and Drainage Impact Assessment (ref: 70062072 (Rev.2) by WSP), has been submitted to and approved in writing by the planning authority. Thereafter, unless otherwise agreed in writing by the planning authority, the northern leg of the road (approved by this application) shall not be brought into use unless development has been undertaken in accordance with the approved scheme.

Reason – to ensure surface water associated with the development can be adequately dealt with.

(6) STREET FURNITURE

No development shall take place unless a scheme of street furniture (e.g. street lights, barriers, traffic signals) has been submitted to and approved in writing by the planning authority. Thereafter development shall be undertaken in accordance with the approved details unless otherwise agreed in writing by the planning authority.

Reason – to satisfactorily integrate the development into the surrounding environment and maintain the visual amenity of the area.

(7) LANDSCAPING

No development shall take place unless a detailed landscaping scheme has been submitted to and approved in writing by the planning authority. The scheme shall include the proposed areas of tree, shrub and turf planting including details of numbers, densities, locations, species, sizes and stage of maturity at planting

Thereafter, unless otherwise agreed in writing by the planning authority, 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 five 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.

Reason – to satisfactorily integrate the development into the surrounding environment and maintain the visual amenity of the area.

(8) BOUNDARY TREATMENTS

No development shall take place unless a scheme of boundary treatments showing typical elevations and construction detail of each boundary type has been submitted to and approved in writing by the planning authority. Thereafter, unless otherwise agreed in writing by the planning authority, the northern leg of the road shall not be brought into use unless development has been undertaken in accordance with the approved scheme.

Reason – to satisfactorily integrate the development into the surrounding environment and maintain the visual amenity of the area.

(9) RE-USE OF GRANITE

The northern leg of the road shall not be brought into use unless a scheme quantifying the amount of salvageable granite (from buildings, structures and kerbs) along the route has been submitted to and approved in writing by the planning authority. The scheme shall indicate where within the development (either within the application boundary or as part of the wider project) such granite will be re-used. Thereafter, unless otherwise agreed in writing by the planning authority, the northern leg of the road shall not be brought into use unless development has been undertaken in accordance with the approved scheme.

Reason – to satisfactorily integrate the development into the surrounding environment and maintain the visual amenity of the area.

(10) NOISE BARRIERS

The northern leg of the road shall not be brought into use unless (i) the noise barriers shown on figures C.5 and C.6 within the Noise and Vibration Assessment (ref: 60528418 (Rev.03) by AECOM) have been installed; and (ii) the walls acting as noise barriers which are identified have remained in place or have been replaced by barriers of the same height as identified in the assessment, unless otherwise agreed in writing by the planning authority.

Reason – to mitigate the impact of noise from the operation of the road on surrounding properties.

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

The Committee resolved:

to approve the application conditionally.