Agenda item

Planning application reference: 16/AP/3819

Report: see pages 12 to 40 of the agenda and pages 1 to 3 of the addendum report.

PROPOSAL

Erection an external lift core to Block C from ground to 4th floor level and double mansard roof extension over Blocks A, B and C to provide 30 residential units (2 x 1bed, 24 x 2bed,4 x 3bed) together with associated ancillary works.

The committee heard an officer’s introduction to the report and addendum report. Councillors did not ask questions of the officer.

The objectors addressed the meeting. The committee asked questions of the objectors.

The applicant and their agent addressed the committee, and answered questions by the committee.

There were no supporters who lived within 100m of the development site present and

wished to speak.

Councillor Damian O’Brien addressed the meeting in his capacity as a ward councillor, and answered questions by the committee.

The committee put further questions to officers and discussed the application.

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

RESOLVED:

1.  That planning permission be granted subject to:

a.  The completion of a S106 legal agreement which is to also specify that payment in lieu of on-site amenity space be ring-fenced for Leathermarket Gardens community park, and

b.  The conditions set out in the report and the addendum report, and subject to the following additional conditions:

  i.  That the construction management report include: a tree protection statement covering the duration of the construction period; acceptable hours in which construction work will take place; adequate community and resident liaison to be undertaken during the construction period.

  ii.  That any additional waste bins are to be located on the estate only and not on-street.

  iii.  That any additional cycle-stands are to be installed on the estate only and not on-street. 

  iv.  Three-year car club membership is to be offered to new residents by the applicant.  

2.  That in the event that the requirements of 1a) are not met by 31 January 2018, the director of planning be authorised to refuse planning permission for the reasons set out under paragraph 68 of the report.