Agenda item

Planning application reference: 16/AP/2668 

Report: see pages 69 to 143 of the agenda and pages 5 to 7 of the supplemental agenda No. 2.

PROPOSAL

Demolition of existing buildings and redevelopment of the site to provide a 10 storey (plus basement) commercial building with two flexible A1/A3/B1  units at ground/basement level and B1 floorspace on all upper levels and accessible parking/vehicular access and servicing from Ewer Street; 170 apartments in three residential buildings at 8, 13 and 21 storeys (plus basement, including roof plant) with a flexible A1/A3/B1 unit at basement/ground floor level; parking/vehicular access from Lavington Street; 3 mews houses (3 storeys); new public realm; hard and soft landscaping; pedestrian routes; alterations to the public highways including widened footways, relocated parking and service bays, tree planting, resurfacing and associated works.

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

There were no objectors wishing to address the meeting.

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

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

Councillor David Noakes 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 for application 16/AP/2668 be granted, subject to:

a.  The conditions set out in the report and addendum report

b.  two additional conditions:

§  that Bankside Residents’ Forum be granted 50sqm within a flexible unit for 10 years at a peppercorn rent

§  that there be regular residential liaison meetings during the construction phase, which should include representatives of Bankside Residents’ Forum and ward councillors 

c.  the applicant entering into an appropriate legal agreement and referral to the Mayor of London.

2.  That  in the event that the requirements of paragraph 1 above are not met by 31 August 2018, the Director of Planning be authorised to refuse planning permission, if appropriate, for the reasons set out under paragraph 153 of the report.