Agenda item

Planning application number: 18/AP/4171

PROPOSAL

Redevelopment of the site to include the demolition of the existing buildings and the erection of a building up to 20 storeys in height (maximum height of 86.675m AOD) and a 3 storey pavilion building (maximum height of 16.680m AOD) with 3 basement levels across the site providing. The development would include use classes A1/A2/A3/A4/B1/D2 and sui generis (performance venue), cycle parking, servicing, refuse and plant areas, public realm (including soft and hard landscaping) and highway improvements and all other associated works.

The committee heard the officers’ introduction to the report and the addendum report.

Members of the committee asked questions of the officer. At 7.30pm the meeting took a five-minute comfort break after which councillors’ questions resumed.

The meeting took a five-minute break from 8pm to allow officers to share material that had been asked for.

The objectors addressed the committee, and answered questions put by the committee.

The applicant’s representatives addressed the committee. At 9pm the meeting took a five-minute comfort break after which councillors asked questions of the applicant’s representatives.

A supporter who lived within 100 metres of the development site addressed the meeting and responded to questions from councillors.

Councillor Humaira Ali addressed the meeting in her capacity as a ward councillor,

and answered questions put by the committee.

The meeting took a five-minute comfort break at 10.07pm, which was followed by further questions put to officers by members of the committee.

Members of the committee then discussed the application.

At 10.35pm a motion was moved to exclude the public from the meeting for the following items of business on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraphs 1 - 7 of the access to information procedure rules of the constitution. The motion was seconded, put to the vote and declared carried. Following this, the meeting went into closed session until 11.15pm.

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

Following this, a motion to refuse the application was moved, seconded, put to the vote and declared carried.

RESOLVED:

That planning application number 18/AP/4171 be refused, because the proposal’s excessive height, scale and massing would have an adverse impact on the character and setting of the Bermondsey Street Conservation Area. This is because it would adversely impact on the Horseshoe Inn and result in the loss of existing heritage assets in Fenning Street, thereby contravening  Policies 3.15 Conservation of the Historic Environment; 3.16 Conservation Areas; 3.18 Setting of Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and World Heritage Sites of the Saved Southwark Plan 2007; SP12 – Design and Conservation of the Core Strategy 2011 and Policy 7.8  - Heritage Assets and Archaeology of the London Plan 2016.