Agenda item

Planning application number: 18/AP/1603  

PROPOSAL

Redevelopment to create two levels of basement and the erection of five buildings ranging from seven to 34 storeys plus plant (heights ranging from 28.9m AOD – 123.9m AOD) to provide: 341 dwellings (Class C3); 8,054sqm (GIA) of office space (Class B1); 1,436sqm (GIA) of retail floorspace (Class A1-A4); 904sqm (GIA) of cultural floorspace (Class D1/D2); 16,254sqm (GIA) hotel with up to 126 rooms (Class C1); new open space; reconfigured vehicular and pedestrian access; highway works; landscaping; basement car park for 107 cars (including 29 disabled car parking spaces), plus servicing and plant areas; and works associated and ancillary to the proposed development.

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

The objectors addressed the committee and responded to questions put by members of the committee.

The applicant’s representatives addressed the committee, and answered questions from the committee.

There were no supporters who lived within 100 metres of the development site present at the meeting that wished to speak.

Councillor Victor Chamberlain addressed the meeting in his capacity as a ward councillor and answered questions from the committee. 

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:

a.  the conditions set out in the report including an amended condition 24 to stipulate that all parking spaces are to have charging point for electric vehicles

b.  the applicant entering into an appropriate legal agreement which is to include stipulations around:

  i.  the applicant working with the Bankside Yards working group regarding details of the proposal and materials. This should include mediation by a third party if necessary.

  ii.  prohibiting sub-letting of parking bays 

c.  and referral to the Mayor of London.

2.  That it be confirmed that the environmental information has been taken into account as required by Regulation 3 of the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessments) Regulations 2017.

3.  That following issue of the decision it be confirmed that the director of planning shall place a statement on the Statutory Register pursuant to Regulation 30 of the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessments) Regulations and for the purposes of Regulation 30(1) (d) the main reasons and considerations on which the Local Planning Authority's decision is based shall be set out as in this report.

4.  That in the event that the requirements of paragraph 1 above are not met by 30 November 2020, the director of planning be authorised to refuse planning permission, if appropriate, for the reasons set out under paragraph 303 of the report.

At this point Councillor Martin Seaton left the meeting. The meeting went into a ten-minute comfort break, after which the Vice-Chair Councillor Kath Whittam was in the chair.