Agenda item

PROPOSAL:

Demolition of existing light industrial building and construction of a building ranging in height from 2 to 9 storeys comprising 1,302 sqm of B1 commercial and employment space at ground and first floor levels and 33 residential flats over the second to eighth floor levels, with 2 residential parking spaces accessed from Hatcham Road.

The committee heard the officer’s introduction to the report. Members of the committee asked questions of the officers.

There were no objectors present who wished to address the meeting.

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

There were no supporters living within 100 metres of the development site or ward councillors present at the meeting and wishing to speak.

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

A motion to grant the application was moved, seconded, put to the vote and declared

carried.

RESOLVED:

1.  That planning permission be granted, subject to the applicant entering into a satisfactory legal agreement and subject to the conditions set out in the report and addendum report, including an amended condition regarding the protection of B1 floor space to include the ground and first floor levels. 

2.  That in the event that the legal agreement is not entered into by 29 December 2019, the director of planning be authorised to refuse planning permission, if appropriate for the reasons set out in paragraph 191 of the report.