Officer Memo Satisfaction Condition c 22nd July 2008

Department Of Local Government And The Environment ### Memorandum To: Director of Planning and Building Control From: Miss Sarah Corlett, Planning Officer Subject: PA 06/1319 – construction of six first time buyers homes and six elderly persons’ bungalows including roads, drainage and associated works, land at Ballacubbon, fields 424841 and 424842, Main Road, Colby, Arbory Date: 22nd July, 2008 ### SATISFACTION OF CONDITION c The above application was submitted by the Department and was permitted by the Council of Ministers after a report recommending approval was prepared by an independent inspector. One of the conditions required that no development may commence until such times as there has been approved by the Planning Authority a scheme of landscaping which includes indication of all existing trees and hedges within the site and details of any to be retained together with measures for their protection during the course of construction. Work has commenced on site and the applicant has now submitted the details of the landscaping. The plan, reference 42PROP/0503 43 shows the introduction of an avenue of trees up the right hand side of the access road from Main Road – these trees being birch, ash and cherry with a fuchsia hedge behind. The front gardens of the first time buyers’ properties on the left as one enters the site will be open and viburnum (davidii) and cotoneaster will be introduced here. A holly hedge will be introduced behind the parking area to the rear of the first time buyers’ properties and play area with a viburnum opulus (Guelder rose) shrub, one sambucus and one rowan introduced alongside. The area around the bus stop alongside the Main Road will be bounded by viburnum (davidii), viburnum opulus (Guelder rose) and cotoneaster with grass and a whitebeam and rowan at each corner. The area around the elderly persons’ housing will be cotoneaster around the car park, viburnum (davidii), hazel and blackthorn around the grassed area, viburnum opulus (Guelder rose) and hazel with cherry, rowan and birch at various points. The rear gardens are to be seeded with grass with opportunities for further shrub planting should the occupants so wish. The scheme is roughly as shown in the previously submitted drawings. No trees or hedges are shown as existing within the site or being retained. The scheme introduces landscaping which will define gardens and introduce a variety of colour and interest to the scheme and is considered to satisfy condition c of the approval. Signed...S. Corlett Signed...M. Corlett Director 1/8/08