Laura Davy Site Visit Memo

Department Of Infrastructure ### Memorandum To: Development Control Manager From: Miss Laura Davy, Assistant Planner Subject: PA 07/02030/B Erection of an agricultural building Date: 30th October 2012 The Decision Notice for the above application was issued on the 11th January 2008. Condition 5 of the approval stated: C5. No development may commence until there has been approved by the Planning Authority a scheme of landscaping which includes indications of all existing trees and hedges within the site and details of any to be retained together with measures for the protection during the course of construction. There must also be an indication of additional planting to the north and south of the building to provide an adequate level of screening. All planting, seeding or turfing comprised in the approved details of landscaping must be carried out in the first planting and seeding seasons following the completion of the development. 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 must be replaced in the next planting season with others of a similar size and species. The Landscaping Scheme which was submitted advised that there would be some tree planting on the retaining bank and the existing trees and hedge to the north would be retained as far as practically. I carried out a site visit on the 30th October 2012 to see if works had commenced on the building. The agricultural building has been erected. It was clear from the site visit that a number of the trees and the hedge on the northern side of the site had been retained and the retaining bank had grassed over. The owner/occupier of the farm advised that some of the trees on the northern side of the site had had to be removed as they were rotten. It is considered that the building appears as part of the group of farm buildings and the landscaping scheme is sufficient to satisfy Condition 5. Miss Laura Davy Development Control Manager