North Lanarkshire Council DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENT Planning Applications for consideration of Planning and Environment Committee Committee Date :I 1 July 2001 AGENDA ITEM NO. .......2: .......... Ordnance Survey maps reproduced from Ordnance Survey with the permission of HMSO Crown Copyright reserved APPLICATIONS FOR PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE 11 JULY 2001 Page No. Application No. Applicant Development/Locus Recommendation 21 N/00/003 97RUL Mr & Mrs Donnelly Erection of Replacement Farm House - Grant (P) Balcastle Farm, Kilsyth 27 N/O1/00463/FUL Cumbernauld South Change of Use of Dwelling to Credit Rehse Credit Union Union Bank (In Retrospect) - The Bungalow, 14 Airdrie Road, Condorrat 32 N/O1/0048O/FUL Miss J Lowe Erection of Dwelling - Land Adjacent to Grant Railway Line, Whitehill Farm Road, Stepps 38 N/O 1/00524/FUL Mr Adio Marini Change of Use from Shop to Hot Food Grant Take Away and Erection of Duct at Rear of Premises - 1 1-13 Main Road, Condorrat 42 c/oo/o 1448RuL Mr C Guidi Erection of Side Extension to Restaurant, Grant Formation of New Vehicular Access and Servery Access - Trattoria Guidi, 122-124 Deedes Street, Airdrie 47 C/01/00006/NID North Lanarkshire Closure of Remote Footpath and Grant Council Housing & Incorporation into Garden Ground - Property Services Lane Between Neidpath Avenue and Beauly Place, Coatbridge 52 C/Ol/O0344/FUL Mr M Hussain Part Use of Shop as Hot Food Take-Away Grant (In Retrospect) - 48 Forrest Street, Airdrie 56 C/O 1/00434/OUT Mrs Joyce McNair Erection of Dwellinghouse (In Outline) - Refuse (P) Gatehouse, Forrestfield, Caldercruix, Airdrie 62 c/o 1/0053 3RUL Mr McGuinness Erection of Domestic Lock-up Garage - Grant 8 English Row, Calderbank 66 C/O U006 17/FUL Mr L Tuffley Siting of a Hot Food Van Snack Bar Grant (Renewal of Planning Consent 95/392) (In Retrospect) - Land at 44 Rochsolloch Road, Airdrie 69 S/O1 /0044 1/FUL Mr & Mrs K Dunn Extension to Dwellinghouse and Erection Grant of Fence - 11 Jones Wynd, Dalzell Park Estate, Motherwell APPLICATIONS FOR PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE 11 JULY 2001 Page No. Application No. Applicant Development/Locus Recommendation 74 S/01/005 18/FUL Evans Easy Space Erection of Business Centre and Business Grant (P) Units (Class 4) and Associated Car Parking - Land East of St. Columba's Church, Old Edinburgh Road, Viewpark 81 S/O1/00600/FUL Graham Watson Erection of Side Extension to Grant Dwellinghouse - 8 1 North Orchard Street, Motherwell (P) N/00/00397/FUL - S 75 Agreement to be concluded (P) C/O1/00434/OUT- If approved, application to be referred to the Scottish Ministers (P) S/O U005 18/FUL - If approved, application to be referred to the Scottish Ministers I:DATA\COMM2\WORD\PLAN"G\lljuly.doc Application No: N/O1/00397/FUL Date Registered: 1 lth July 200 1 APPLICANT: MR AND MRS DONNELLY, BALCASTLE FARM, BALCASTLE ROAD, KILSYTH Agent: Myles Rae, 17 Livingstone Terrace, Redding, Falkirk FK29 TU DEVELOPMENT: ERECTION OF REPLACEMENT FARMHOUSE LOCATION: BALCASTLE FARM, BALCASTLE ROAD, KILSYTH Ward No: 65 Grid: 270255 678386 File Reference: PW Site History: Approval for erection of ‘bungalow’ 72/686 Development Plan: Kilsyth Local Plan 1999 Contrary to Development Plan: No CONSULTATIONS: Objection: No Objection: No Reply: Conditions: REPRESENTATIONS: Neighbours: None Newspaper Advert: None COMMENTS: This application seeks consent for the erection of a dwelling to replace the original existing farmhouse at Balcastle Farm, Kilsyth. The applicants wish to demolish the existing dilapidated farmhouse and replace it with the proposed dwelling in an almost identical location. The applicants, who are daughter and son in law of the farmer, work on the farm, which currently has 365 sheep and 116 cattle, and intend to live in the proposed replacement dwelling. The site lies within the greenbelt as defined in the Kilsyth Local Plan 1999. The applicants currently live and work on the farm and it is considered that adequate agricultural justification exists for the replacement dwelling. Furthermore, the applicants have agreed to enter into a Section 75 legal agreement, which would limit the occupation of any future to a person working on the farm It is further considered that the proposed dwelling is of an appropriate scale and design and accords with current guidelines. \ It is therefore recommended that this application be approved and only issued on completion of a section 75 agreement. RECOMMENDATION: Approve subject to the following conditions :- That the development hereby permitted shall be started within five years of the date of this permission. Reason: To accord with the provisions of The Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997. That before the development hereby starts, full details of all external materials to be used in construction, including walls, roofs, windows, doors, gutters and downpipes, shall be submitted to, and approved in writing by the Planning Authority, including any modifications as may be required. Reason: To enable the Planning Authority to assess these matters and retain effective control in the interests of the visual amenity of the dwelling and the surrounding area. That the occupation of the dwellinghouse hereby permitted shall be limited to a person employed full time locally in agriculture, as defined in Section 277 of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997, or such a person who has retired, or a dependant of such a person, residing with him, or her, or the widow or widower, of such a person, or as otherwise defined in the Section 75 Legal Agreement. Reason: In the interests of proper planning by ensuring that there is a continued agricultural justification for this proposed dwelling in the greenbelt. That the use of the garage hereby permitted shall be restricted to private use incidental to the enjoyment of the dwellinghouse on site and no commercial activity shall be carried out, in, or from, the garage. Reason: In the interests of the residential amenity of the dwelling concerned by ensuring that no anti- social activity incompatible with residential use is carried out from within the garage. That the integral garage hereby permitted, shall not be altered for use as a habitable room without the prior consent of the Planning Authority. Reason: To ensure that there is adequate garaging provision in the interests of road safety and residential amenity. List of Background Papers: Application form and associated drawings Kilsyth Local Plan 1999 Any person wishing to inspect these documents should contact Paul Williams on 01236-616464 Note: It should be noted that Planning Permission will not be issued until an agreement under Section 75 of the Town and Country (Scotland) Act 1997 has been completed which restricts the occupancy of the dwelling house to a person employed full in agriculture at Drumglass Farm. APPLICATION NO : N/01/00397/FUL 1. SITE AND PROPOSAL 1.1 This application seeks consent for the erection of a dwelling to replace the original existing farmhouse at Balcastle Farm, Kilsyth. The applicants intend to demolish the original farmhouse, which is in a poor condition and replace it with the proposed dwelling on an almost identical footprint. 1.2 Balcastle Farm lies on the north-western fringe of Kilsyth on the southern slope of the Kilsyth hills. The existing and original farmhouse dates from 1809 and forms the south-eastern corner of a traditional u-shaped steading, which faces open to the west. The Farmstead is of a traditional character and style and has a mixture of sandstone and roughcast finishes. The existing farmhouse faces southward down the hillside with a traditional bay window feature. 1.3 The proposed dwelling would be situated on almost the same site as the existing dwellinghouse. It is one and a half stories high with a traditional dormer window and bay window feature and finished in a mixture of amber roughcast, sandstone and dark grey rooftiles. The applicant also proposes to erect an attached double garage on the western gable of the dwelling to tie onto an existing adjacent barn. 2. CONSULTATIONS AND OBJECTIONS 2.1 No objections have been received, as there are no notifiable neighbours. 2.2 Similarly, there have been no adverse consultation responses, as external consultation was not considered necessary in this case. 2.3 The application was advertised in The Kilsyth Chronicle as potentially contrary to greenbelt policies and no objections were received as a result. 3. OBSERVATIONS AND CONCLUSION 3.1 The existing farmhouse is in a poor condition and state of repair as noted during site inspection. The applicant argues that it is beyond economic repair as it has damp, dry rot, collapsing lintels and ceilings and no damp proof course. Although the farmhouse was built in 1809 it is considered to be of little architectural merit as it has been re-modelled during the Victorian era and as such its retention is not considered to be a strong material consideration. 3.2 The farmstead and application site lies within the greenbelt as identified in the local plan. As such, the proposed replacement dwelling has to have an agricultural justification. The applicants, Mr and Mrs Donnelly, the daughter and son in law of the farmer currently live and work on the farm and intend to do so in the long term. The farmer and his wife live in the adjacent bungalow, which received consent in 1972, and the old farmhouse was previously occupied by Mrs Donnelly’s grandmother, who died over a year ago. 3.3 The farm operates as a sheep and cattle farm and currently has 365 ewes, 400 lambs, 116 cattle and 15 Hectares of barley, straw and silage. This equates to a labour requirement of at least 4872 hours per annum.