Officer Planning Report Recommendation

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Officer's Report

The application site is set within the open countryside.

The proposal is to erect a horticultural storage unit. The unit will be set next to the boundary fronting the A9. The applicant has planted a substantial number of new trees along the boundary and along the north west elevation of the building. The proposal will be partially visible from the public highway. However, overtime the new planting will help to obscure the unit. I therefore feel the existing planting should be retained as part of condition so as to reduce any impact on the visual amenities of the locality.

Recommendation

Conditions and Notes for Approval / Reasons and Notes for Refusal

C : Conditions for approval N : Notes attached to conditions R : Reasons for refusal

• : Notes attached to refusals

C 1. The development hereby permitted shall commence before the expiration of four years from the date of this notice.

C 2. This permission relates to the erection of the of a horticultural unit as shown on drawing number GS/1/05 received on 18th May 2005 and 963/02 received on 2nd August 2005

C 3. The development hereby permitted shall not commence until samples of the external facing and roofing materials to be used have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Planning Authority. The development shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details.

C 4. No existing tree or shrub indicated on the approved plans to be retained shall be cut down, grubbed out, topped, lopped, or uprooted without the written consent of the Planning Authority. Any such tree or shrub removed without such consent or dying, becoming seriously damaged or diseased within a period of 5 years from the completion of the development shall be replaced in the next planting season with another of similar size and species, unless the Planning Authority gives written consent to any variation.

I confirm that this decision accords with Government Circular No 57/01 (Delegation of Functions to Director of Planning and Building Control).

Decision Made : Approval by delegation Date : ...

Signed : ... M. I. McCauley Director of Planning and Building Control