2017-12-18 General Committee Agenda

GENERAL COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                   18 DECEMBER 2017


       Plan No.              Rev.   Plan/Document Name                                 Date
       C001                  A      Drawing Index and Standard Notes, prepared by      18/08/2016
       Job No: SC-5734              Empire Engineering

       C020                  A      Siteworks and Drainage Plan, prepared by Empire    18/08/2016
       Job No: SC-5734              Engineering

       C025                  A      Siteworks and Drainage Sections and Details,       18/08/2016
       Job No: SC-5734              prepared by Empire Engineering

       C030                  A      Pavement Plan, prepared by Empire Engineering      18/08/2016
       Job No: SC-5734
       C040                  A      Sign and Linemarking Plan, prepared by Empire      18/08/2016
       Job No: SC-5734              Engineering

       PP01                  B      Planting Plan, prepared by Exhibit Green           21/11/17
                                    Landscape Architects

C.    Add new condition 64 to approval OPW16/0183 to read:
      64.   The landscape plan must be amended prior to the commencement of the use to
            provide for:
            a.     The landscaping strip to the Venture Drive frontage to be at least 2.0 metres in
                   width and include 2 Elaeocarpus reticulatus (Blueberry Ash), a mixture of large
                   and medium sized shrubs and ground covers native to the locality.
            b.     A schedule of plants which provides for meaningful buffers and screening
                   throughout the site resulting in a mix of trees, large shrubs, small shrubs,
                   ground cover, grasses and sedges native to the locality.
D     Delete condition 29 of approval OPW16/0183.



REPORT
A report on this application was considered by the Planning and Environment Committee on 12
December 2017 (page 13 of Planning & Environment Committee Agenda) and was subsequently
referred to the General Committee dated 12 December 2017. During the course of discussions
at the Planning and Environment Committee meeting, Councillors indicated they considered that
the new landscaping condition, condition 37, requiring the deletion of stairs and additional
landscaping to Venture Drive frontage was not necessary or appropriate given the existing and
likely future uses in this part of the industrial estate. Concern was also raised about the
appropriateness of the Pandanus tectorius species for the area being a coastal species.
The condition currently reads as follows:
37.    The landscape plan must be amended to provide for:
       a.        The deletion of the stair access at the norther-eastern corner of the site;
       b.        The landscaping strip to the Venture Drive frontage to be at least 2.0m in width
                 and include 2 Pandanus tectorius (Screwpine), a mixture of large and medium
                 sized shrubs and ground covers native to the locality.
       c.        A schedule of plants which provides for meaningful buffers and screening
                 throughout the site resulting in a mix of trees, large shrubs, small shrubs, ground
                 cover, grasses and sedges native to the locality.




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