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Report by Head of Planning and Regulatory Services

The Principal Planning Officer spoke to the terms of the report advising that this proposal seeks detailed planning permission for the erection of a detached single storey dwelling to be used as a ‘river watcher’s/water baliff’s’ accommodation to facilitate the management of this part of Dunlossit Estate.  The application site is located within an area of ‘sensitive countryside’ immediately to the south of, and largely contained by, a sharp bend in the Laggan River to the east of Laggan Bridge.  It is considered that sufficient locational need has been established to outweigh the general policy presumption against such development in the sensitive countryside and an ACE has been carried out which demonstrates that the proposed site can support the development proposed without having any materially detrimental impact upon the key landscape characteristics of the identified ACE compartment.   The ACE appended to the report was recommended for adoption as a material consideration in the determination of this application and any future application within the defined area of common landscape character.  The application was also recommended for approval subject to conditions and reasons set out in the report and the Applicant entering into a Section 75 Legal Agreement as detailed at section H of the report.

 

Decision

 

1.        Agreed that sufficient locational need had been established to outweigh the general policy presumption against such development in the sensitive countryside;

 

2.        Agreed the Area Capacity Evaluation (ACE) appended to the report be adopted as a material consideration in the determination of this application and any future application within the defined area of common landscape character; and

 

3.        Agreed to grant planning permission subject to the Applicant entering into an appropriate Section 75 Legal Agreement and subject to the following conditions and reasons:-

 

(a)        The proposed development shall be carried out in accordance with the details specified in the application form dated 5^th November 2010; and the approved drawings numbered 1 of 6 to 6 of 6; and stamped approved by Argyll and Bute Council.

 

Reason: In order to ensure that the proposed development is carried out in accordance with the details submitted and the approved drawings.

 

Standard Note: In terms of condition 2 above, the council can approve minor variations to the approved plans in terms of Section 64 of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 although no variations should be undertaken without obtaining the prior written approval of the Planning Authority. If you wish to seek any minor variation of the application, an application for a non material amendment (NMA) should be made in writing to Planning Services, Dalriada House, Lochgilphead, PA31 8ST which should list all the proposed changes, enclosing a copy of a plan(s) detailing these changes together with a copy of the original approved plans. Any amendments deemed by the Council to be material, would require the submission of a further application for planning permission.

 

(b)        Prior to the commencement of development, details of the proposed finished floor levels of the dwellinghouse relative to an identifiable fixed datum located outwith the application site shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Planning Authority. The development shall thereafter be implemented in accordance with the duly approved details.

 

Reason: In the interests of visual amenity and to assist in the integration of the development into its surroundings.

 

(c)        Development shall not begin until details of a woodland management programme and a scheme of hard and soft landscaping works has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Planning Authority.  The woodland management programme shall cover the area of land identified within a green line boundary appended to the plan hereby attached. The required details shall include:

 

i)                    existing landscaping features, trees and vegetation to be identified and retained, except for those trees required to be removed in order to facilitate the development, these to be clearly identified;

ii)                   location and design, including materials, of any walls, fences and gates;

iii)                 soft and hard landscaping works, including the location, type and size of each individual tree and/or shrub;

iv)                 programme for completion and subsequent on-going maintenance.

 

All the hard and soft landscaping works shall be carried out in accordance with the scheme approved in writing by the Planning Authority.  All planting, seeding or turfing as may be comprised in the approved details shall be carried out in the first planting and seeding seasons following the commencement of the development unless otherwise agreed in writing with the Planning Authority.

 

Any trees or plants within the identified woodland management area which within a period of ten years from the completion of the development die, for whatever reason are removed or damaged shall be replaced in the next planting season with others of the same size and species, unless otherwise agreed in writing with the Planning Authority.

 

Reason:  To ensure the implementation of a satisfactory scheme of landscaping and retention and management of existing trees in order to ensure that the development remains appropriately screened from view from the B8016 public road.

 

(d)        Notwithstanding the provisions of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2011, (or any Order revoking and re- enacting that Order(s) with or without modifications), nothing in Article 2(4) of or the Schedule to that Order, shall operate so as to permit, within the area subject of this permission, any development referred to in Part 1 and Classes 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D, 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B, 3C, 3D and 3E of the of the aforementioned Schedule, as summarised below:

           

PART 1: DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE CURTILAGE OF A DWELLINGHOUSE

 

Class 1A: Any enlargement of a dwellinghouse by way of a single storey ground floor extension, including any alteration to the roof required for the purpose of the enlargement.

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Class 1B: Any enlargement of a dwellinghouse by way of a ground floor extension consisting of more than one storey, including any alteration to the roof required for the purpose of the enlargement.

 

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