Agenda item

Application number: 18/AP/0657

Report: see pages 14 – 93 of the agenda pack and pages 1 - 6 of the addendum report

PROPOSAL

Demolition of existing buildings and redevelopment to provide construction of a part 5, part 7, part 8 and part 13 building a mixed-use development comprising 328 hotel rooms (Class C1) 20 residential dwellings (Class C3), offices, workspace and workshops (Class B1), multifunctional community events space (Class B1/D1), retail use (Class A1/A2/A3), 4 car parking spaces together with access, cycle parking, hard and soft landscaping and other associated works incidental to the development.

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

Objectors to the application addressed the committee, and answered questions from the committee.

The applicant and their agents addressed the committee, and answered questions from the committee.

Supporters living within 100 metres of the development site addressed the meeting and answered questions from the committee. 

Councillor Karl Eastham addressed the meeting in his capacity as ward councillor, and answered questions by the committee.

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

At 9.51pm the committee took a 5-minute comfort break. 

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

RESOLVED:

1.  That planning permission for application 18/AP/0657 be granted, subject to:

a.  the conditions set out in the report and addendum report, including:

  i.  an amended condition 20 to stipulate that no on-street servicing take place between the hours of 11pm and 7am.

  ii.  an additional condition requiring that details regarding a single entrance for all residential tenures types be provided for approval by the council.

b.  the applicant entering into an appropriate legal agreement by no later than 30 January 2020. This legal agreement is to require details on how the A1/A3 space is being marketed for use as a pharmacy. The reference to alternative pharmacies in a 500-metre radius shall be removed. The community investment plan in the legal agreement is to reference the funding for the community space and grants.

c.  referral to the Mayor of London. 

2.  That in the event that the requirements of (1) are not met by 30 January 2020, that the director of planning be authorised to refuse planning permission, if appropriate, for the reasons set out at paragraph 211 of the report.