Agenda item

Planning application reference number 11-AP-0868

Report: See pages 32-88 of the main agenda and pages 1-4 of the addendum report.

PROPOSAL:

Demolition of existing building and erection of a part 8 / part 9 storey (maximum 29.79m high) building comprising 1,308 sqm of commercial floorspace (Classes B1 office / B8 warehouse and storage / A1 retail) and 28 cluster flats and 4 studios (total 221 bedrooms) for student accommodation with ancillary facilities, refuse and cycle storage, public walkway and associated public realm works.

The committee heard an officer’s introduction to the report and members asked questions of the officer.

Objectors made representations to the committee and answered members’ questions.

The applicant made representations to the committee and answered members’ questions.

A ward member, Councillor Neil Coyle, made representations to the committee and answered members’ questions.

A motion to defer planning permission was moved, seconded, put to the vote and was declared to be carried.

RESOLVED:

That planning application 11-AP-0868 be deferred to a later meeting in order to ensure the applicant enters into an appropriate section 106 agreement, with defined heads of terms.