Agenda item

Planning application reference 16/AP/2681

Report: see pages 94 to 134 of the agenda and pages 3 and 4 of the addendum report.

PROPOSAL

Demolition of the former youth club building and nightclub building, and removal of crane, and erection of two buildings arranged across a communal garden ranging from four to eleven storeys in height comprising 197sqm of Class A1/A3 (restaurant/cafe) floor space, 74 residential units (13 x 1 bedroom, 42 x 2 bedroom, 17 x 3 bedroom and 2 x 4 bedroom) with private gardens, balconies and terraces, communal amenity space, 23 parking spaces, 136 cycle spaces, refuse storage, creation of vehicle access from Odessa Street, associated works including electricity substation and construction of new section of Thames River Path and associated landscaping.

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

The committee heard representations from objectors to the application and asked questions of the objectors.

The applicant and applicant’s agents addressed the committee and answered the committee’s questions arising from their submission.

There were no supporters of the application who lived within 100m of the development site and wished to speak. 

The committee heard a representation from a local ward member, Councillor Dan Whitehead, and asked questions of Councillor Whitehead.

The committee debated the application and asked further questions of officers.

A motion to grant planning permission was proposed, seconded, put to the vote and declared granted as follows:

RESOLVED:

1.  That planning permission be granted subject to conditions set out in the report and addendum report, the applicant entering into an appropriate legal agreement by no later than 24 February 2017, referral to the Mayor of London and subject to a decision from Historic England not to list the crane.

2.  That in the event that the requirements of the resolution above are not met by 24 February 2017, the Director of Planning be authorised to refuse planning permission for the reasons set out under paragraph 116.